the tinker
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
The Schwinn is put together from "parts at hand". This has been working out pretty good for me: work on the projects around the house during the day and every evening putting together these frames into a bikes..... Fun.
The problem I have is I bring stuff home, stick it in a box and there it sets .....forever. Not only bikes but all kinds of junk. Half the time I can never find stuff. When I do run across it I can't remember what I had it for. ..Crazy. The last couple years I have brought a truck load of bike stuff to every swap and for an entire year every week I have brought collectibles [ or junk as my wife calls it] to a local auction house with no reserve....just to once and for all clean out. We intend to get our house ready to sell and move. Sell our two story place and get a smaller ranch style house with a typically large basement that ranches have here in the Midwest.......at least that's the plan.......
So..... to condense things I have decided to put every last bike frame together even if it needs painting, just to see if everything is there and to make stuff easy to move.
Avoid boxes of junk all over and further be able to get rid of clutter .NO MORE HOARDING!!
Up today is what I think is an Elgin. I bought it for about $20 back around 2003 with a early 30's Schwinn. Now that I look at the old photo it sure don't look like no Elgin. In a box with all the hardware for this bike is an Elgin nameplate. I'll see if it fits......
Shown is a before photo and one taken today, painted red and on the stand.
The Schwinn has been assembled from whatever I had laying around and is pictured under the stand.
An interesting side note : I recall that when I took the tires off this bike one of the inner tubes said: WAR TUBE .
The problem I have is I bring stuff home, stick it in a box and there it sets .....forever. Not only bikes but all kinds of junk. Half the time I can never find stuff. When I do run across it I can't remember what I had it for. ..Crazy. The last couple years I have brought a truck load of bike stuff to every swap and for an entire year every week I have brought collectibles [ or junk as my wife calls it] to a local auction house with no reserve....just to once and for all clean out. We intend to get our house ready to sell and move. Sell our two story place and get a smaller ranch style house with a typically large basement that ranches have here in the Midwest.......at least that's the plan.......
So..... to condense things I have decided to put every last bike frame together even if it needs painting, just to see if everything is there and to make stuff easy to move.
Avoid boxes of junk all over and further be able to get rid of clutter .NO MORE HOARDING!!
Up today is what I think is an Elgin. I bought it for about $20 back around 2003 with a early 30's Schwinn. Now that I look at the old photo it sure don't look like no Elgin. In a box with all the hardware for this bike is an Elgin nameplate. I'll see if it fits......
Shown is a before photo and one taken today, painted red and on the stand.
The Schwinn has been assembled from whatever I had laying around and is pictured under the stand.
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