southpawboston

thanks, gomango. what size frame do you ride?

Trucker Dan

I am probably going to vintage bike hell for running a carbon crank on my 84 720 cross conversion.

txvintage

Well, I never really considered it a Frakenbike, but it did at one time live as a TT machine. No Tri's. Condor can only be bought from one of their two shops in London, and when this one was born you pretty much designed your bike with group and accessories. It has the same group on it now, but with a different set of wheels and it has drop bars. Soon to have Ergo's and the Chorus brakes will move to another platform and the Chorus levers will be archived for future use.

Andrew F

81 Raliegh Comp. GS frame - Weinmann LP18 Rims
Ritchey front hub - SA S3X rear hub
Campy Gran Sport brakes & headset
All-City 46t Crank - Brooks Swift
MKS pedals & cages - Polished Bluemels (coming soon)

mkeller234

My frankenbike is a low-end Lotus America. It was one time where I actually knew what I wanted to build and saw it all the way through without changing plans. It's also the ugly brother to Southpawboston's very nice Shogun.

Initial build:


Functionally improved current form:


In action:

dyander

Here's one


Built on a Phillips 3 speed frame cleaned up and shellaced
Specialized 5 speed hubs on MA40 rims with and Conti touring 700x32 tires
TA crankset 46x36 with a sugino BB and new Shimano flipflop pedals
Shimano 600 RD, Deore XT front and Universal 68 sidepulls
I recently added a 80's MTB bars, stem, levers and shifters
the ziptie cable clamps finish off the ensemble.
Great in town, great in the mountains and fast.
I love it.

Sixty Fiver

Almost all my bikes are Frankenbikes as most were built up from spare parts...

Most recently... 1988 Kuwahara Shasta that was a fixed gear and is now running a 1964 AWG hub and is a collection of odd bits I had kicking around.

I love it.

sillygolem

'71 Columbia Sports III
Smaller-geared Diamondback crank off of the Giant I used to ride.
Massive Cloud 9 saddle attached by flipping the original seatpost upside-down and adding a soda cam shim. (seat rails are way too wide for the original clamp)
Handlebar mount water bottle

KtownDougie

This was posted in SSFG, as well. '74 Favorit frame, fork and seat post with the stem, crankset and front brake from a '76 Nishiki Custom Sport. The stem mounted Dia Compe brake lever was altered by removing the main lever, leaving the extension lever to apply the brake. The saddle and pedals are from my GutTerBall, the wheelset was pulled from a Masi at the LBS.

Arrowana

I might win for most hideous looking Frankenbike, although I don't think the pictures do it justice.

I picked this up yesterday at the bike co-op for $50. I was wanting to make something like it, and I found one already made. One LBS actually sells them for $200. It's a Schwinn Varsity Frame, with 26" alloy MTB wheels and a J.C. Higgins 3-speed hub.




My plans are to get a new shifter (Current one has issues with 2nd gear), a new seat and seatpost(Seatpost clamp is overtightened and damaged seat and post) and North Road bars, then get fenders, rack, and baskets for it. I want something that can carry a decent amount, without adding a bunch of heavy stuff to my GT.

Sixty Fiver

arrowana - now THAT is a frankenbike.

MikesChevelle

Once I get my Suburban done, it will for sure be a frankenbike

Capecodder

I have you all beat, look at my toilet......

SteveSGP

This poor Raleigh as found,


As built up for a friend,


My sons Frankenbike Collegiate, he's 12.

gomango

Missed this one!

I ride a 57 to a 58 cm.

I did some fliers a few weeks ago in the neighborhood. You know, the "do you have any old bikes in your garage that you want to get rid of" flier. Our neighbor offered me four bikes, two Lotuses, a Shogun, and a very nice Raleigh Competition. I purchased the lot a week ago and have already sold the Raleigh to a forum member at RBR, and the Lotuses are getting picked up tomorrow as well. I'm keeping the Shogun touring bike, which is cream and dark blue for a grocery/porteur project. This means my trusty green 1969 Schwinn Racer will be hitting the CL locally when the snow melts.

degan

1970's Kobe frame, newer aluminium fork, Ultegra 6600 external bearing crankset, 1990's 105 RD, original Suntour SL FD, Original (?) 27" Suzue/Mavic front wheel, 700c 9-speed Shimano back wheel, new(ish) 8 speed (in friction mode) bar end shifters, original SR stem. Pretty Frankenstein if you ask me, but I love it. Also, cat.

JohnDThompson 

What is that outer chainring? It doesn't look like the typical TA outer ring.

91MF

198x? vicini frame/fork[seatpost is 26.8 - columbus aelle tubing? i dont care really, it rides super nice except somethings bent - very slightly turns left when riding with no hands]
105SC hubs laced to velocity deep vees[heavy, but two years of massive curb jumping commute abuse - lazer straight]. singlespeeded with a 16t cog and spacers. old chain, cant remember.
ofmega headset/bb/cranks w/42t chainring. time ATAC.
tricolor levers and front brake used as a rear, inverted[the reach was better this way ???]. i drilled the fork to use the tektro recessed front brake.
deda murex stem/random profile design classic bend drops/fizik black tape
suede vetta gel/random post.

Reco Very

That is a great view from Manastash, but how is the ride to get there??

I have driven that too many times to count, and while those hills look fun to go down, they look nasty to go up.

LeicaLad 

My frankenbike is in progress. The opposite of lipstick on a pig. I start with a beauty and then use a mismash of parts.

There's a current thread with lots of photos. 1963 Hetchins Mountain King - a progress report.

YES, the F**king brake cables are too long, too. And the crank looks like it'll be swapped out for a triple.

One photo:

WNG

A current non-C&V project that's all Frankenbike.
A 2003 Trek 1000 frameset I picked up off CL, then the parts gathering began. Wheels are off a Specialized Allez something, Nashbar 8-spd cassette, Shimano 105 Octalink BB, black DP brakes, 10-spd FD. Shimano 9-spd Ultegra RD. Cannondale EX road crank. Shimano PD-6402 Look pedals, Selle San Marco Ponza LUX saddle on an American Classic seatpost. Cannondale stem, Profile bars, Tektro black brake levers. It needs dark red cable housing. Then I can mount a set of Ultegra 8-spd bar-ends.


6245672750_ed787d9e30_b by WNG555, on Flickr

edit:
It was finished Fall 2011. I got to ride it a dozen times before my personal crisis struck. I will probably not see it again, the ex wife claimed it was a gift to her son and has refused to give me back any of my bikes or tools.

knewbike

I bought a Centurion frame to use the components off my Raleigh Competition because it had a crack on the seat post bolt. Then I got into triathlons. Then I thought gee I have all these parts lying around (some from a Fuji touring IV which I "upraded") so I juryrigged another seatpost clamp on the competition frame and made a singlespeed.

Don't hate me.

mattveezy

OK mines pretty close to done finally

started out: the most rusted out version of a mid-90s fuji foldable bike possible....


Stripped off ~20lbs of crap to expose a funky 7lb chromo frame

-- then added the parts to make it fit a 6'1 rider and be zippy in urban traffic &
-- bulletproof enough to sit on the front of a bus for an all-weather commute of 50miles a day



Sanded down another 1.5ish lbs of misc metal and added little bit of powder... and we're done! the ultimate franken-folder urban commute assault vehicle.


Just gotta replace the saddle to something a little more sporty.

RubberLegs

My Frankenbike, but as it is Italian...I think...I should call it a Frankenetti! Theoretically a Torpado...late 60's early 70's....bottom end. Weinmann Concave rims, HF Hubs (french), Campy FD RD, Sugino Crank, Suntour Barcons, Mafac brake calipers, Suntour Superbe levers, Avocet touring saddle, ITALMANUBRI Europa Super Racing Alloy drops

fender1

My "Raleigh Pro for the Non-Pro" franken-bike.

7 speed index shifting
MTB RD
TA Cranks
30mm Tires
Platform pedals w/ Hold Fast straps
Modern Aero Levers

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