Monday, April 15, 2013

Beast Dreams

Soon, I may have a Mongoose Beast in my hot little hands, and I have a few ideas of what mods would be good for it. In no particular order, and not limited to...
1. Trim the roundish dropouts to straight, flat lines.
2.Add a brace at the seat post/top tube.
3.Drill and paint the rims. Guess what color. Black, the standard of all cool rims.
4.Add front brakes with half sleeved posts from a donor mtb fork.
5. Roll the seat post back for some cockpit room.

My neighbor has a welder and is experienced, so 2 and 4 should be easily accomplished. Payment in beer. Number 5 is going to a guy at work who races stock cars and has a tube bender. He'll do it for the heck of it. (Not as much as this picture shows, maybe 10 degrees) And since there may be some welding scars, I might as well consider a paint job. The site owner at www.ratrodbikes.com painted his with red primer and I must say, it looks awesome. Let's see, what else.....


3 comments:

Jon said...

I would kinda like to play around with one of those. The Mukluk doesn't lend itself to hotrodding, too much...

NoVisibleLycra said...

I want one! Nicely impractical for the road, ostentatious, eye-catching, very juvenile, a bit delinquent. It's my sort of bike. Going to check out the website if there is one.

Travel Gravel said...

Matt, They are sold at Walmart.com. One of the forums I read had a guy from UK who was trying to figure out how to get one. If I see that again, I will get the info to you. Maybe you could contact him and see what he found out. It is a lot of fun!!!! I will tell you, they couldn't buy it back for what I paid for it.