BUILDER: Zeus (Zeus)
DIVISION: BRC (BioPsychoKinetic Road Cruiser)
HISTORY: This is the second of the season bikes. This bike was built so that it's first ride was the first spring ride of the SCUL season. It was also appropriately named because Zeus had chopped several bikes at this point, and had TONS of spare tubes, crossbars, forks, etc. lying around his place, and assembled these assorted pieces from 9 different bikes to create this chopper. Since it was spring cleaning, spring was an appropriate name.

This ship is was definitely a work in progress. Originally, two baby frames were welded on top of each other to make a normal sized frame. But when welding, the two head tubes needed to line up, so a crossbar and head tube piece was stuck in there to line them up. Then, it looked pretty good, so a wheel was stuck at the bottom of this to keep it there and functional. Pieces kept being added and added, taking care of many problems that are in a bike made from baby frames (the sizes just aren't right for bike building) and in the long run, this contraption was built.

As far as oddities go, the seat had a pair of dropouts welded to it so it could be pushed back further, the sissy bar is really made from cut off fork blades, a rear triangle was welded to the two little triangles for a real sized wheel to fit, and the front steering actually steers about a foot behind the wheel, kind of in the middle of the bike. It makes it a very interesting ride. One of the main drawbacks of using a little frame is that only little cranks can be put on the bike, making pedaling a bitch. However, this problem was solved by permanently welding longer cranks on, out a few inches so they won't continue to bang into the rear triangle. Unfortunately, they can never be removed and reused.

This is actually one of the easier to ride of the BRC series. Although the steering is squirrelly to say the least, as long as you keep two hands on the handlebars, you're perfectly fine. It has 5 workable gears (some of the time, usually needs adjustment that we'll never get around to) and a decent crank radius, so the pedaling is real easy. You can't see em in the pictures, but it's got little flowers painted all over it. Awww..., so cute.

Upon moving to Georgia, Spring was determined to be not worthy of taking on the long journey, but instead was given to SCUL. What has become of it since then is unknown. Either someone wanted it and took it home, or it has gotten left on the side of the street in boston for someone to steal.... either way, it gets a home.