Mine can't touch Demo9's awesome build, but here's what we just built this morning for our daughter's 3rd birthday. It's definitely a work in progress.
I bought the 2009 16" Specialized Hotrock for $40 from Bay Area Schwinn in Pasadena, TX. It was pretty whooped, but would have served several more kids as-is.
Current mods:
Haro low-rise bar with AME mini grips on a Sinz mini 40mm stem
Cane Creek Headset with 1 1/8" - 1" headset reducer
Redline Flight R6 aluminum 20" fork
Redline rear wheel
18T freewheel
40T Sinz chainring
120mm Sinz cranks, drill pressed 40g lighter with Sinz pedals
68/107mm Euro BB with aluminum American-Euro bottom bracket converter
Rattle can Krylon Rich Plum and Watermelon with Rustoleum sparkle clearcoat.
UNI seat with cut down seat post
Right away, it needs new tires, straight handlebar, the padded Crupi/THE padded mini BMX seat and ...something else that I'm forgetting.
In the end, it'll get disc brakes and three speed freewheel with short cage derailleur. And probably better paint. That's planned for late summer. We worked it out in the shop a few days ago, and know how we're going to do it. But, we've already blown the bike budget, and at just-turned-3, she can wait a few months for gears.
We ran into issues last night with our primer, so the paint didn't come out as well as planned. :-(
Here's the album. If you don't do FB, let me know and I'll post them here.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150652152231383.450980.680686382&type=1&l=7fa631f3da
I bought the 2009 16" Specialized Hotrock for $40 from Bay Area Schwinn in Pasadena, TX. It was pretty whooped, but would have served several more kids as-is.
Current mods:
Haro low-rise bar with AME mini grips on a Sinz mini 40mm stem
Cane Creek Headset with 1 1/8" - 1" headset reducer
Redline Flight R6 aluminum 20" fork
Redline rear wheel
18T freewheel
40T Sinz chainring
120mm Sinz cranks, drill pressed 40g lighter with Sinz pedals
68/107mm Euro BB with aluminum American-Euro bottom bracket converter
Rattle can Krylon Rich Plum and Watermelon with Rustoleum sparkle clearcoat.
UNI seat with cut down seat post
Right away, it needs new tires, straight handlebar, the padded Crupi/THE padded mini BMX seat and ...something else that I'm forgetting.
In the end, it'll get disc brakes and three speed freewheel with short cage derailleur. And probably better paint. That's planned for late summer. We worked it out in the shop a few days ago, and know how we're going to do it. But, we've already blown the bike budget, and at just-turned-3, she can wait a few months for gears.
We ran into issues last night with our primer, so the paint didn't come out as well as planned. :-(
Here's the album. If you don't do FB, let me know and I'll post them here.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150652152231383.450980.680686382&type=1&l=7fa631f3da