yakboy
Manitou Fan
So for a while now I have been wanting to build a Klunker type bike but in the Yakboy spirit of never making it easy for myself I wanted to do it with parts that I could have found in the late 70's and 80's in the UK. I remember when next doors kid (3 years older than me and spoilt) got a Raleigh Arena in the late 70's, got bored with it, took off the drop bars and put Cowhorn bars on it and called it a "Scrambler", despite still having road tyres on it! I didn't really get it, but in the early 80's for Christmas he got a brand new black Raleigh Bomber. Now that I really did get, I was never really into BMX's, so the Bomber was a bit of a revelation to me.
So I didn't want a Raleigh Bomber but take an earlier British bike and Klunkerise it, but going on the same journey of discovery that Charlie, Joe, Alan and Gary went on back in Marin.
The bike would need 26" wheels and a klunkerish frame design.
Lots of research in the internet identified only a couple of bikes that would be suitable.
1. The Triumph Rodeo
But the 26" Wheeled version or
2. The BSA Santa Fe
Rodeo's come up fairly frequently but the Santa Fe is a rarer beast....... and it was really the Santa Fe I wanted.
So I didn't want a Raleigh Bomber but take an earlier British bike and Klunkerise it, but going on the same journey of discovery that Charlie, Joe, Alan and Gary went on back in Marin.
The bike would need 26" wheels and a klunkerish frame design.
Lots of research in the internet identified only a couple of bikes that would be suitable.
1. The Triumph Rodeo
But the 26" Wheeled version or
2. The BSA Santa Fe
Rodeo's come up fairly frequently but the Santa Fe is a rarer beast....... and it was really the Santa Fe I wanted.
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