Flandria "Scorcher" Featured Bike! on 02/27/2010
By ruthless dictator on 01/02/2007.
Bike tags: Single speed | Road bike | coaster brake | flandria | green |
late '60s or early '70s Flandria, not the Belgian kind but the cheapy bike-boom version for the US market, made in Portugal
upside down steel northroad - painted black, ITM stem
'87 Bianchi Eros 700c, stock h/set
Araya 27", sansin hub, "vee rubber" tire 27x1 1/4
Araya 27", NOS fifties-era coaster brake (forget the brand), vee rubber 27x1 1/4
steel cottered
Norex leather, stock post
old kind w/replaceable treads, Union 1/8 chain
52x19
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late '60s or early '70s Flandria, not the Belgian kind but the cheapy bike-boom version for the US market, made in Portugal
upside down steel northroad - painted black, ITM stem
'87 Bianchi Eros 700c, stock h/set
Araya 27", sansin hub, "vee rubber" tire 27x1 1/4
Araya 27", NOS fifties-era coaster brake (forget the brand), vee rubber 27x1 1/4
steel cottered
Norex leather, stock post
old kind w/replaceable treads, Union 1/8 chain
52x19
I tried to emulate the old Iver Johnson frame by welding in a curved top tube (buddy of mine did the welding) and giving it a pre WWI "scorcher" look. Paint is mint green 2-component epoxy. I probably could have done a better job curving the tube but I didn't have any tube benders at work to make an arch like that properly. I also wasn't sure if the two tubes actually connected from the pictures I saw so I just guessed on that.