Okay, so I bought a few books on building custom bikes. Though I’ll admit it’s more like chopping up then re-building it Frankenstein style. The scary part is that it looks tooooo easy. Just pull a bike out of the trash, grab your angle grinder to salvage the BB, headtube, dropouts, and maybe some of the straight tubing that’s left. Then take out your cheap plug-in style stick welder and some electrical tubing, weld it all bake together… and voila! a bad-ass looking chopper or a swing bike or a tall bike etc….. Does anyone here have experience with chopping up and re-welding bikes back together in some custom way? Is it really as easy as I want to believe it is? How likely am I to actually try this and come away with rideable bikes? … Honestly, knowing myself, whether I get good advice or warnings not to try, I’m pretty sure I’m going to go for it anyway. Maybe built that “really complicated drivetrain” bike I posted here a couple years ago….

Anyone know where I can pick up a welder and angle grinder cheap? :)