To date, I have approximately 2 yrs of intense "Heavy-Mental" invested into my Folk Art bicycle project thus far, and more money and beer than I'd like to admit. Dam nickle & dimes!
Whereas ,when the bike is finished here soon, I plan on giving it away for free to my Doctor named Barry Martin who I met a couple of years ago, so not really a stranger, but....
Dr. Martin is a 28yr Army veteran "plastic-surgeon" who has served 8 active tour of duties and routinely served as resident doc at Walter Reed Medical Center between tours. He now resides here in So.Dakota and loves our Bad Lands Region...PaHaSaPa (Sunsets over the Black Hills).
He is an avid bicyclist and has a hotty girlfriend who enjoys lifestyle bikes and riding them to coffee shops, downtown events, etc. The Doc ain't got no darn lifestyle bike though...yet
So this bike build has been for the doctor and he has NO idea its coming to fruition thus far, so surely he will be granted a right-of-1st-refusal, that is, if he decides he doesn't like it or want to ride it, or doesn't have that same girl friend anymore. Hoping that is not the case here as I'd be butt hurt unbeknownst to him.
In the event that he declines my offer, I'm gonna hope a "Caber" may want it and enjoy riding it half as much as I have building it...what a Riot.
Thanks for asking this question, as it provided me an opertunity to share my build history....Art Saves Lives~
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