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Red Baron The
Red Baron was designed and built to compete in the 2nd Round of
www.chopperbicycle.net
's Bicycle Build Off 2 after we had successfully won our heat of Round 1
with "Lightning Strikes". The
inspiration was the legendary German World War I fighter pilot Manfred Von
Richthofen who is now commonly referred to as the "Red Baron",
after the colour of his Blood Red Fokker Triplane and the 1960's novelty
Pop record "Snoopy and the Red Baron". This
theme allowed me to utilise a wide variety of Iron (or Maltese) Cross
styled bicycle parts such as Pedals, Chainwheel and Valve Caps as well as
custom touches such as the Iron Cross incorporated into the Frame head and
the Machine Gun. The
Frame itself is a fairly traditional long forked Chopper design although
it incorporates a few different ideas such as utilising a pair of BMX
forks to mount the rear wheel to give a clean and uncluttered look and
separate handle bars mounted to fork extensions on each side of the steer
tube. Fabrication
and painting were fairly straightforward and we finished off the detailing
of the frame by applying transfers displaying the name "Red
Baron" and the registration number of one of Richthofen's original
planes. Wheels
are 20" ACS 'Z' BMX Mags with 20 x 2.125 Maxxis "Gussett
Pimp" tyres.
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