Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Bike

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indianabric

Active Member

• Apr 9, 2015

• #4,061

billy baloney said:

A lot of guys make their own, or there are some Schwinn cycle truck advertising panels with the brackets and hardware on Ebay, you could email them and see if they will sell you a set of frame brackets.

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That sounds like a great idea, I never would have thought of that. Don't the movie bikes use pipe strap from a roll?

 

billy baloney

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• Apr 9, 2015

• #4,062

Yeah, at least one of them did, but after all there were multiple bikes and the prop guys were under time and budget constraints, so I'm sure they used anything that was handy, there is a studio production photo that shows the tiger head being held on the siren housing with painted gaffer tape!

 

Abelugo

Sr Member

• Apr 9, 2015

• #4,063

Dalek,
I went to ace hardware and found their hobby metals section and found some stainless metal strips, they are easy to bend and use for this application, they also have brass strips if you think it should be stronger, I think got a sheet but used a metal cutter at work to shear it to the thickness, I just measured mine, they are lightly over .75", If you find metal strips, get .875"-1.0"

 

Ruddigger

Sr Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,064

Brass strips from ace hardware. Cuts like butter, looks great when painted.

 

DalekMcFly

Active Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,065

Thanks guys, I'll be chrome taping the bones later today as well. I'll be using a spray adhesive to keep them on there.

 

BrownieICT

Active Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,066

Looking good Dalek!


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DalekMcFly

Active Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,067

Went to Ace Hardware today. Found the strips fast and they worked perfectly!

They look really good when unpainted, shame they have to be painted white..

 

Ruddigger

Sr Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,068

Nice job. They look a tad long, but thats easily fixed. The brass does look cool, I'm currently building a turn of the century style motorized bike as well, I'm doing brass hanger strips for the gas tank that I'm leaving unpainted for that very reason.

 

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indianabric

Active Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,069

That reminds me of how I'd like to do some sort of giant Mad Max cruiser with a whole bunch of patina covered parts.

 

Abelugo

Sr Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,070

You can also cut the corners then file them for a rounded look, that how the movie bikes have, some radiused corners

 

billy baloney

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• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,071

indianabric said:

That reminds me of how I'd like to do some sort of giant Mad Max cruiser with a whole bunch of patina covered parts.

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YOU!....YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!

 

Ruddigger

Sr Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,072

Abelugo said:

You can also cut the corners then file them for a rounded look, that how the movie bikes have, some radiused corners

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I realized afterwards that I had used brass strips that were too skinny, but I did round the corners as Abe suggested, and I felt they looked good enough to leave them as is.

Also, jeez, a lot has changed since I originally posted this picture back on page 31 in 2012. I don't even live in that house anymore, have I really been doing this for that long?

 

DalekMcFly

Active Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,073

They still look quite nice. I already got to painting mine.

 

DalekMcFly

Active Member

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4,074

The straps are finished, and have been mounted back on:

Overall, this has been great so far. My next priority is to chrome tape the ribs, then it's on to the headlight!

 

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h0taspho

Active Member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #4,075

Well, I am on the home stretch. The tiger siren isnt exactly accurate but eh. Ive been on this project for 2 years and i need to get it down within 3 months since im moving states. In the third picture does anyone know where to get the brackets that are welded where my yellow indicator is in the picture. they sort of look like this -> [ ] and a screw goes in the middle. I think the final parts for to go towards the bike are: to get the medallions for the mudflaps, brass peewee plate, and side skirts.

 

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Abelugo

Sr Member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #4,076

hotaspho
for the bracket, I basically cut and bend up some of the same steel the truss bracket is made from and added a screw. when welding it up I would make sure to mark where it should sit on the bike and may tack the pivot locked, as mine moved around a lot.

 

Ruddigger

Sr Member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #4,077

That bracket piece you mentioned should be easy to make. The difficult part is that it needs to be welded on.

 

Abelugo

Sr Member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #4,078

if you make the part, just go down to a muffler shop and have them weld it, right quick.

 

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DalekMcFly

Active Member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #4,079

I put the chrome tape on the bones of the frame insert, looks much better now.

Overall came out great.

 

billy baloney

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• Apr 12, 2015

• #4,080

Well things are starting to settle down enough to get some real work done, it's agonizingly slow, but we managed to get the plugs cleared and buffed and I just finished putting six coats of wax on everything in preparation for the new molds, I'm getting psyched now: