Blake Builds An Adult Balance Bike | Modern Draisine Or Velocipede Replica

Welcome back beautiful people, welcome to my

bike

cave. Yeah, I'm back here for Blake to build this one. I'm going to make true all those comments I made when I built my little man with a bone tip with a super

modern

geometry look. Actually, he's too lazy, actually he's too lazy anyway, he's already outgrown it and now he's back with his little red one. Now the comments at the end of that video that I asked for were: Should I build a

balance

bike

for

adult

s? and they all said, Hell yeah, he

builds

one of them for sure and goes and tries to ride it on the trails.

That's what I'm going to do today. I'm going to build a

balance

bike for

adult

s, so let's get to work before we get carried away. This is the actual idea I'm going to go with. I'm going to make it as simple as possible, as simple as a balanced bike, and this is what it will look like wheel, wheel, obviously, very important, forks again, very important, but this is where the simplicity comes in thin and implicit anyway, this is where it comes in, that's all I'm going to make, which is a huge scaffold board and then somehow I'm going to make a wooden seat that will go in there.

I'm going to have some bars on top. power bars, just like that I'm going to go, this is the donor bike, this is an I'm going to cut this off there and there, poor bike, rest in peace and I'm going to try to mount that front end on the wood, that's what I'm going to try to do and mount it on the wood, right? First things first, this thing weighs an absolute ton, it's very heavy, but I'm going to take it apart, make it as big as possible so I can cut it up because I don't want it to be too small and then I end up not having much structural strength in the front. where i want it i don't want it to break ok tools oh yeah that's so much better thanks jen cake it's so early in the video below lol look at that that's disgusting that's just i feel bad ok ok now mark i'm going to cut This scaffold board in half, it's 240 long, so I'm going to cut it into 120, then what I'm going to do is glue them together and sandwich them together. together to give you a super thick frame structure that will hopefully be strong enough, it will be three inches thick, but before I glue it all together I want to mill or machine where the frame will sit and then when I put it on.

I'm going to sand the frame so it's rough, glue it and epoxy it into the wood and then let this stereo tube stick out of the end so it doesn't move or twist, and I'm going to screw it and screw it and make it super strong now, hopefully, that it will work hopefully it will work well now that one is an inch thick and that one is actually almost an inch thick and this one is two inches thick this tube so and the tape is wow it's two inches so what? What I'm going to do is trace this five million there five million over here and I'm just going to machine this half of that and half of this so one inch here half an inch over here and then I'm just going to just insert that in there do the same in that slot that on the top match it up, glue it in there with epoxy, I have some gorilla epoxy, I'm going to throw all that in there, sand all this like grind it all good and get We take all this stuff off and then we screw it all together , so I have a full frame setup, okay, this is what looks ugly there, it's ugly, but it's going to be hidden, so this will fit in there like this and uh. pair that up there and I'm going to do the same thing on this side and then that's going to go on top like this and stick all of this together and that's going to be the main structure of the frame, okay, let's do this right after taking all that came out horrible it just fits in there like that it's pretty tight which is good it doesn't matter it's super comfortable as long as it fits there that's pretty good that's pretty good now oh turn that up a bit here I need it to remove all this paint sand everything with the angle grinder and then epoxy that is there like this, flatten it and then screw it in, look at that sanding, I think that goes there, what is tight is a mistake. and a rug and then that's sandwiched in there like that, oh yeah, and I found out that I found these in my, in my, in the closet, so as they go right through there, that way, there's enough meat in there to grab, but now It's the moment. gluing and sandwiching all of this is quite a bit of glue, that's pretty ugly right, I'd be happy, so it's okay, it looks good, there's a little gap there, but I can feel it and it looks super sexy.

Now I'm going to give it It's going to take about an hour to dry and set, but before I do that I'm going to drill some holes here so I can get those bolts in and it's actually going to help it hold it in better, so I'm going to do it now that's actually squeezed it out quite a bit. that's uh that's good I'm glad I did it I'm going to leave that for quite a while I'm going to make a cup of tea ah oh man Jen keep making things for me eat this is like some jam amazing amazing right, this has been around about an hour, but I don't think it's enough, I think it must be overnight, but we don't have all night to wait, right?

I'm going to polish these maybe tie them a little bit more so they sit on the wood and then I'm going to polish them and then we'll be fine, wait, polish, yeah, it looks like it. well I'm happy with it now for the forks you're going to love it it's so old school I just hope it works I hope it works let me go get them look at these things blast from the past 2002 mizoti monster bomber forks come on Put them on because I'm excited to see what they look like, let's put those crazy ball bearings in there, put that in, oh no dude, look at it, oh look at it, the geometry looks crazy, it's pretty steep, it looks cool, it looks cool.

Okay, let's move on to that rear because we need a rear wheel, so I'm going to cut this part off here, but I'm just going to use a 26 inch wheel on the rear, I've just marked where I'm going to be sitting, I think with the bar reach and things I'm thinking about, that's where my butt is going to go. I'm going to cut that piece off there so that's the big four by two frame here and then, uh, I'm going to work on the back, we're going to cut that out, so there's no return right now, if I cut it, that's it, there's no turn back now, that actually looks a lot better, look at that guy, okay, this is going to be the super super swing arm. heavy lifting with this, okay, after brainstorming I've figured it out to get the actual measurements right to hold that center back.

I'm going to build my seat. I'm going to cut some layers. Put it there. Paste it. glue it on the other side so we're going to cut a layer of 18 mil okay now the seat is going to be this is where I'm thinking of putting foot pegs if I'm going to need them glue them on and then I'm going to put the swing arm on and glue it on and I'm going to drill big holes so I can put the threaded bar through so it's super strong and doesn't break, so I'll probably put three and one, two and three right.

There she is, no, don't ask me how much she weighs, she weighs more than a bicycle, that's for sure, okay, come on, come on, let's get this thing together right, the front is on now I just have to deal with the back , which uh, shouldn't be a big deal, okay, there's the fenders, now I want to put a mud gun because I actually cut this part off, I have this one, I think if I put it there like this, I think it just finishes it off really nice and add a

modern

touch, that was the last touch.

I actually got one more, I got two more taps, but this, you know, it may be strong, it may not, it may just bend and break. with a hard impact, but we'll see how we go, we'll see how we go with that, if it does cause any damage, I might put a piece of wood underneath just to give it a little more support, but I think that'll be good enough. I did a test and it's scary without brakes. It weighs 80 kilos. Let's see how much this thing weighs. 105 kilos. They are 25 kilos. That thing is pretty heavy.

Fred, a final touch. It has to be a Blake Build decal. Yes, you can buy them if you go to our GMBN store. You will find these and other decals. Let's open a window. Change your plan. We're not in Windhill. I thought about changing. up I thought I'd come here I have a crowd I have my fans 'cause they're all fred are you ready I'm not ready there's a jump right there let's go oh I don't need brakes yet oh there's a jump i know exactly the set up for this thanks for checking out Blake's other crazy

builds

.

This has been a fun but challenging build for me. I loved. Now the question is what should I build next? A touring bike, a side trick, an all-terrain bike rack. maybe I'll build another bike, one I can pedal. I don't know, let us know in the comments below. I'd love to know what you want to see next. See you next time. See you.