HugeBadWolf
Super Freak
This is a pearoast of what was in the Biker Scout thread, but think it may deserve it's own thread.
I have a couple of Hasbro soeeder bikes and I've never been hapopy about the way they look, more specificly, I think that the outriggers are way too short, so I decided to do something about it...
First job was to get at the outriggers, a few loose screws later and they were off. Cut the front off of the struts and the struts off of the plate that screws into the body.
Replaced the struts with a couple of lengths of aluminium tube.
When it was put back together, I noticed there was a bit of droop. I think this was a result of being a bit keen with the dremel when I hollowed out places for the tubes. A couple of pins later and things were looking a lot better.
Next job was to drill some holes for the cables to clip into
You can see in these pics that I'm a bit ham-fited with the dremel, this resulted in one of the tubes breaking, hence the slightly larger outer tube that runs halfway along each strut.
But when I'd fixed that problem the cables clip in quite nicely
Next job is to extend some of the kibble out to meet the narrower struts, suspect I'll do this woth a few off-cuts of the narrower tube, and clean up the joints
Doesn't look too bad at the moment, think that once the paint goes on it'll look alot better.
Cheers,
Doug
I have a couple of Hasbro soeeder bikes and I've never been hapopy about the way they look, more specificly, I think that the outriggers are way too short, so I decided to do something about it...
First job was to get at the outriggers, a few loose screws later and they were off. Cut the front off of the struts and the struts off of the plate that screws into the body.
Replaced the struts with a couple of lengths of aluminium tube.
When it was put back together, I noticed there was a bit of droop. I think this was a result of being a bit keen with the dremel when I hollowed out places for the tubes. A couple of pins later and things were looking a lot better.
Next job was to drill some holes for the cables to clip into
You can see in these pics that I'm a bit ham-fited with the dremel, this resulted in one of the tubes breaking, hence the slightly larger outer tube that runs halfway along each strut.
But when I'd fixed that problem the cables clip in quite nicely
Next job is to extend some of the kibble out to meet the narrower struts, suspect I'll do this woth a few off-cuts of the narrower tube, and clean up the joints
Doesn't look too bad at the moment, think that once the paint goes on it'll look alot better.
Cheers,
Doug
