our entry for 2015 OldMiniBikes Rupp Vintage Class

[daverascal]

Rupp Black Widow

 

[jdogg]

Love the lettering!! And the bike!! :thumbsup:

 

[mrpat]

Nice looking bike. Good luck with your build!

 

[daverascal]

thanks the font is zombie holocaust I used it on my enclosed trailer freaks people out....

 

[bikebudy]

Nice, Will be a Beauty.

 

[buckeye]

Not many of these around. Nice choice.

 

[fistfullabar]

Let see how this years black widow stacks up against last years "road widow":detective::detective::detective:

 

[daverascal]

the plan is to keep it looking stock. with a bit more chrome and a killer paint job.

 

[CarPlayLB]

Good to see you working on this Dave! Good luck with your build...be easy on the knees!

 

[daverascal]

here's an update. Got frame,swing arm and triple tree back from sand blast. I was terrifed the whole time the guy might blast off the serial number tag. I taped off a big area around the tag with special tape. Tag is fine. Engine block is ready for rebuild and carb is rebuilt thanks to a few guys here.

 

[jdogg]

Looking good Dave!! Yep kinda scary counting on somebody ya havent used before even when you give specific instructions, get it back and they screwed up anyway!!

 

[daverascal]

the guy is a mennonite so he has not idea what it means to have a real black widow. he just says ah it's a mini bike....ugh

 

[OND]

Good Luck Dave . :thumbsup: Can't go wrong with a BLACK WIDOW !

 

[daverascal]

thanks I hope this turns out cool. I have it entered in a car show coming in April near Cleveland. Yea it's an indoor show. I was taking the car so I thought why not enter the BW in the bike class. The theme this year is 70's muscle, sounds perfect for the bike. lol

 

[JohnnyTillotson]

This is gonna be great to watch for my non build off BW project thats creeping along at anything but warp speed.

 

[daverascal]

this is my first build off kinda fun to track the progress.

 

[fistfullabar]

:detective:

 

[daverascal]

I can not get photos to upload anyone else having trouble? So what's done, all the chrome is back used a new guy here in Ohio looks good. All parts have glass bead blasted and primed. Picked up paint this week using a base coat clear coat. Going to try 4 coats of clear with the first coat 80-20 mix with black, second 90-10 and last 2 coats 100% clear, with wet sanding between coats. Thanks to Eric and everyone else for their help. Hope to have it wrapped up in a couple of weeks.
dave

 

[OND]

Dave, no problems here posting pics ...holer if ya need some help.

 

[daverascal]

I was hoping to shoot black this weekend, but gotta go to family funeral ugh....this is the error I get when I try to up load pics:
Error creating thumbnail! Error code: 1

Command:

"/usr/bin/mogrify" +profile "*" -size 0x100 -quality 70 -geometry 0x100 '/home/httpd/html/oldminibikes.com/public_html_main_site_taken_offline_per_Ticket_138846/forum/photopost/data/500/thumbs/1047.JPG' any ideas???