Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Bike

i am also working on a Pee Weesque(as in not an exact replica) bike..48 Schwinn with springer, custom spraypainted in what i call a fawtina look..painted an hand striped..made the items such as the spinners an center grill..and now trying to learn to make my own molds and castings..workin on the tiger siren from screen shots and almost done w the mold..ya its not exact but looks really close an figure..how much of a chance will i roll up with someone with a real one..you guys have some really cool bikes and wish i could do some of the stuff you all pull off..well im trying. next week im pickin up my rocket ray an magestic siren

you doing well so far. There is an easy way to do the bags, essentially get pink foam and sculpt them out, then seal and paint them, they won't be hollow but you'll get a similar effect. Note that you can't just coat the pink foam with resin. I've read her that youu can elmers glue them to build a seal around it.

I attached your image below. jpgs work better on these forums.

I'd post my art to the center skirt but it seems that DX vary a lot, so it would be for more of a start.
 
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I just sent for ordering info on the Bike Print, now if I can just find SOMEONE who has one of the "REWARD" Posters for sale!!!!

=Frank=

The 'Reward' posters are back in stock, for a little while at least:

It's available here:

* Bike Reward Poster! By Jacob Borshard

Abelugo - that's some nice shaping on your side-tanks! Nice and rounded.

I'm curious as to what all's going to be at the Gallery 1988 show . . . I guess we'll know soon.
 
Just to confirm what peruna said, it's true, I am no longer able to make tiger sirens because my silicone molds degraded and ripped. I'm glad to hear that Abe has plans in the works to make sirens in the future. I need to get back on track with my bike build. I've been sidetracked trying to resurrect a 25 year old John Deere snowblower that I picked up on Craigslist. Seems odd to be working on a snowblower in 100 degree heat, but my efforts will pay off when we get hit with a foot of snow six months from now. :)
 
What sealant would you recommend Abe? I currently have forms made out of Great Stuff and wood. Now they need a nice smooth coating so I can paint them.
 
thanks! im good with my hands not so good with computers. i made my own primitive mold out of rtv and sculpting clay. entirely from looking at screen shots and comparing sizes to other peices of bike..so ya its no way actually like a real one. i tried using fiberglass resin in my mold to cast it but it seems to be perpetually tacky? i was hopin it would fully harden and i could dremel the insides out to lighten it up. ive seen casting resin at craft stores but it is really expensive..for the back half i used green floral blocks and carved the shape out and sealed in resin..it wouldnt be so bad if i could actually get things to go my way..nothing like a real tiger siren but at least it im hopn some day it will at least look like one
 
another shot of my bike, long way to go still. riding this around Pittsburgh i get a lot of weird stares but then occassionaly i get the thats a Pee Wee bike! then followed by a smile..its cool that just by riding a bike by someone you can bring some happiness into their lives.
 
for my pinstriping i looked at screen shots, then used painters tape as a edge and masked out my stripes. you can make the slanted edges an peel an restick to your liking..then once happy paint them in with white model paint. once dried peel tape and you got stripes..i know most people try and go for the really nice paint super nice bikes, but for some reason i kinda like the ratty paint an beat up look of the og movie bikes..
 
the museum bike has cheap pinstripe tape for all the stripes, yeah you can mask them in like you said or stripe them in with one-shot. But I figured I might as well do them like the movie bike has them.
 
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that is a nice fork, some of the pics it looks like the movie bikes had forks like the cheap ebay ones. but im no expert on them..
 
Jaime,
There are a couple of different Schwinn forks, Note that the Pyramid brand forks are the 30-50 dollar specials, the repro Schwinn forks and 50's and later 60's Schwinn forks are all very similar.
The 1995 reproductions all have AS bolts. I found a cap with the "S" on the X1- Your right about the "S" bolts on the real Schwinn Springer, good eye!

I've also found there are some springers with slightly bent front truss rods, on the X1 they should be straight.

I've got the graceful curves on my rear springer arms.

There are a couple tells. if you look at the truss rods, the hole on the ends is squared out, on Pyramids it's a little round hole. The spring holder parts is more curved like a cone and has a point on the rear on schwinn springers, the pyramid springer is just a strap across and looks more like a Monark Knee-action springer. Also the way the main springbolt works is different, there is a centering nut within the bolt, Ed schooled me on that one.
BTW beware of these springer showing up on NOS boxes, the sometime can be fake.
There was an auction for just the box a few months ago.

BTW the seat clamp is not an "AS" seat clamp. It looks like an "S" 60's Schwinn clamp with a cheap round head seat clamp bolt.

good observation on the center yoke, I'll check mine.
 
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i had bought a cheap fork at first since i kept gettn outbid on real ones, it did throw the wheel out farther and when ridng it got all kattywampus and would never stay straight..i tried using small copper washers as bearings to smooth out the springer..you tighten it to much to keep it straight and it binds..finally won a real one and huge diff..its the way a springer should be. can someone tell me what seat exactly i should look for? i know its a mesinger..but the black mesinger one i have looks nothing like the movie seat.
 
yeah, I was trying to finish my bike for the show, but I have a laundry list to do and a few big things coming up as well, o and then there is work!

Here are some extra pics of the Hollywood bike.
 
It's a black messinger seat with black base, there is one in the ratrodbikes.com classifieds for 10.00 I believe here - cancel that, that real one should have the side diamonds and a center rear oval that reads Mesinger, I thought that one looked funny!!
looks like it should clean up nice, the springs need black paint.

It's a 70's - 80's cheap black messinger seat, it's comfy as it big, the cover is a plastic or vinyl.
check out this item number on ebay, it's white one, see the oval? 230622518080
 
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thanks for the info on the seat and the pics, my seat is a mesinger but not shaped quite like that and has a diamond tuck kind of pattern to it. next time im at bicycle heaven ill have to see if he has a reasonable one.
 
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