Here's one I picked up last fall for my daughter. She had to help work on it in order to ride it, and she did great for a 10 year old kid. Spending time together and putting a little practical math in here and there was the goal.
I tend to measure the piss out of stuff and lay it out in CAD.... Maybe a bit overkill, but measure twice, cut once yadda yadda.
It started as a decent running bike, but the brake lever was short and the cable routing made squeezing the brake pretty tough. We made new axle spacers to get the rear tire centered, and then made a sprocket spacer to line the chain back up. I scavenged a brake lever off a garbage picked mountain bike and redid the cable ferrules for the rear drum brake.
Girlie did awesome wrenching and running the drill press and mill, and helped layout and scribe any of the sheet metal pieces we needed for the clutch cover.
This winter we'll blow it apart, redo the bars, have the frame powdercoat, and he grandmother is going to help stitch up a diamond pleated seat and embroider her name on it.
More later.
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