Aluyasha
Look Ma, No Hands!
About a week or so ago I got a bike off of a guy who posted it on CL. He said it was a Schwinn based soley on the handlegrips. I offered him $75 for it, at first he wanted to get more money for it but after a day called me back and let me take it.
It was missing it's seat, was hand painted with stick on pinstriping. Obvisously not original handlegrips. But was a skiptooth and looked Elgin, so I brought it home.
Got a Troxel seat for it, put on a headlamp and rear reflector, stripped off the paint and let it be bare metal, gave it a rack, new treads, handbars/handlegrips, and cleaned the bearings and all that.
Here is a before picture of when I brought it home:
Here it is today:
Next on my list to add to it is a headbadge, older pedals, and a hopefully a tank.
Many thanks to Jeff (rustyspoke66) for helping me find the parts to make this bike.
It was missing it's seat, was hand painted with stick on pinstriping. Obvisously not original handlegrips. But was a skiptooth and looked Elgin, so I brought it home.
Got a Troxel seat for it, put on a headlamp and rear reflector, stripped off the paint and let it be bare metal, gave it a rack, new treads, handbars/handlegrips, and cleaned the bearings and all that.
Here is a before picture of when I brought it home:
Here it is today:
Next on my list to add to it is a headbadge, older pedals, and a hopefully a tank.
Many thanks to Jeff (rustyspoke66) for helping me find the parts to make this bike.