Manky Monkey Motors

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my girl on her bike. all built out of kerbside rubbish bikes- 7 bikes in total

you only live just down the road then mate

not far at all

Cool ride!  8)

Excellent. "My dad made this" - what a great phrase she has to say. Top job :)

 :o :o i think ya forgot the ,,brake,s,, :o :o

she helped
its got "coaster" brakes. pedal backwards.
because the front wheel is smaller then the original one off the forks, the clap type wont fit
"proper" choppers dont have front brakes

I built something similar, if a little larger, over 40 years ago for my oldest boy, and I still recall the local kids squabbling over who was going to ride it next, with their own shiny "shop" models cast to oneside! happy days....Morrag

When I were a lad, my parents bought me a bike from an ad in the local paper. I proudly rode it off down the lane outside our house, off to explore the world on my shiney new steed.
Got a few hundred yards before I hit a pothole -& my lovely new bike broke clean in two. The frame snapped -the result of some distinctly dodgy repairs. I was badly shaken up, covered in mud & dripping blood from a gashed knee, but was terrified to go home. I was convinced my Dad would be furious.
Eventually I appeared at the end of the lane, dragging one half of my busted bike in each hand -to be met by gales of hysterical laughter from my parents.
   -emotionally scarred me to this day.  :'(   

front end will be changed to one with brakes, she likes to use them on hills
my folks wouldnt have tolerated the mess but i wish i'd done stuff like this when i was a lad

So THAT's why you never ride your postie bike!    ;D

We don't have bicycles any more Bobbi.
It varies from depot to depot, but in my sorting office, (Basingstoke, Hampshire), everything's done by van now. We work in pairs, with a small van between us -my "van buddy" & I have a Vauxhall Corsa van to do our 2 deliveries with. Some Posties use small fold-up trollies, (like converted golf trollies), to carry the bags around the streets. When I started, over 26 years ago, you could buy the old bikes for a couple of quid. I had an old Post Office Pashley with rod brakes, that I rode to work on, for the princely sum of 8 quid. Then they started donating them to third world charities instead, but eventually started cutting them up -no doubt some health & safety directive.
All our mail comes from Swindon in Wiltshire, about 40 miles away, where it's sorted into postcode areas by machine. Then we sort it by hand into the seperate deliveries & again into the various streets etc. When I started, the mail arrived by train. Used to be my job to unload the midnight mail train & drive it all up to the sorting office in a big ol' Morris van. Now it's all done by lorry. No bicycles.

my kids saw me building chops n trikes and wanted there own (wiv engins in em) so built a few over years first pic was daughters honda 50 chop second was my youngest sons at 3 yrs old trike he is now building a cbr 600 trike and thirdly 2 of my grankids who now want me to build em totrods and chops

Very cool Ron!

ye would be if i had more hours in a day lol

ive got a little 75cc lump for the girls with no real plans for it yet.
those bikes look great Ron

Very cool kids...that Purple/Pink Suzuki tank on the floor looks the same colour as a GS 1000 I broke about 5/6 years ago..mates all used to take the pee out of it asking me why I was riding a bright Pink girls bike lol...Voodoo...

this is the one i did, its got mudguards etc now, this pic was around 4 years ago,
i built it before she was born, like to be ready ;D
she,s nearly eight now,,
c90 engine, hand gearchange, no diff axle, i could do with a tiny diff but cant find one small enough

Bet she loves it!