What bike did you work on today?

[OSCAR...]

Went out to the Garage to finish prepping the last few parts for the Mizutani but as I was moving bikes to get to my bench I got distracted by a Speedster in the line. My friend Damian just finished building a sweet bmx cruiser that gave me ideas to use a stem I've had for a while with the Speedster I keep having to move to make a similar bike....
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Then added a wheelset with Nexus Inter 7 hub out back that's also been laying around for years with some 26"x1.90" Bontrager Cruiser tires. Gonna try an old Deore XT thumb shifter that flips from friction/7 speed index to work with the hub. Ended up with this...
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Need to find a laid back seatpost & bmx fork (wait, what? You have one to spare? How much?) to complete what I had in mind. Kind of in between a klunker & bmx with the 7 speeds. We'll see where it ends up when it's time to build it!

Also tried out some bars I found at the co-op on the Elgin Dirt Tracker.
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Bikes are so much fun!

@ @ @ Mr.. M.yarms...

Nice bike Amigo.

I call this one's my self...

Everytime I see a bike set up" " " like your.

The Last one on your Post above.
(ELGIN/ BK.)

A (War Tankers ).!!!


Stay Safe With family.!!! and friends.!!!

Be.!!!!...Happy...!!!!

 

[Mr. Monkeyarms]

Thanks @Felixnegron ! Can't wait to get the Elgin built up. Initial impressions say it will be a lot of fun & very different than a ballooner. Have a great day!

 

[Superman1984]

@Mr. Monkeyarms I like where the camel back build is goin' & that Elgin needs a cow bell hangin' short n close to the center man. Moarrr Cow Bell Stat!

 

[SoBayRon]

Took an old POS seat from an 80’s Schwinn and going to try my hand at recovering. Read the very entertaining post from @the tinker about how to do it. Figure I try on a worthless seat first. Got all the rust off the springs and spray painted the hardware. It was rusted so bad I had to drill out the nose rivet and add a nut and bolt to keep the front together. Now off for a ride in the hood with my box cutter. All discarded leather furniture in the area is now at risk!

 

[coasterbrakejunkie1969]

I finished cleaning up this Red ,White and Blue JC Higgins to go with my Huffy. Summer is coming.

 

[Mountain Trail Andy]

I finished cleaning up this Red ,White and Blue JC Higgins to go with my Huffy. Summer is coming.

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It needs some "red walls" to complement the "blue walls" of the men's bike.

 

[Mountain Trail Andy]

Red hand grips also!

 

[bleedingfingers]

Worked on this 30s CCM motorbike redid some of the bearings trued the wheels up a little cleaned up what I could .
Put some nice tires on and rebuilt the pedals .
Have all the parts for this fenders chain guard etc. seat and bars are just placeholders will restore original seat .
Someone painted the handlebars so will probably replace them .
Gotta change the rear sprocket to a 20 tooth as well it's a bit of a beast with this gearing.
Will overhaul the triplex crankset when I paint it but that won't be until it gets a lot warmer out
I'm thinking by the looks of things it's been painted at least 3times 1 factory and 2 repaints .
When I looked up colours for this year it came in 2 Burgundy and dark navy blue .
I've had a nicer one than this that was more original so I'm thinking of some thing like a grey colour or pewter with some pearl in it
or maybe a nice Mercedes silver lots of really cool new car colours out there right now so who knows.

 

[Barfbucket]

I cleaned and put new bearings and grease in my right pdal. The left one is soaking overnight in Goo Gone. I’ll tackle the left tomorrow.

 

[Superman1984]

I cleaned and put new bearings and grease in my right pdal. The left one is soaking overnight in Goo Gone. I’ll tackle the left tomorrow. View attachment 1400537
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If you ride this frequently I would start using Red N Tacky; May Not have to do it as Often