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Hey Everybody,
Got the Spaceliners out for a ride to Dairy Queen with My wife's son, girlfriend, and "The Little Guy" who has Mag Ray
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Figured out that his bike was 12 inch (not 16) so he needs a little more growing time yet
He helped me tune it up and reminded me to lube the chain :lol: 8)
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He was cranking on that the little bike keeping up and trying to pass :D
We got my wife's son and girlfriend out riding for the first time on a long time
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And the Ultimate goal: Dairy Queen
Everybody had fun and treats
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Tomorrow, Back to DQ with my wife's Dad :D
Today was a good day. Thanks for looking
Steve
 
Hands down Mpls has used his BO bike more than any one else did!!!!!
 
These were taken at the swap meet today! :mrgreen:
Stevil on the Young American 8)
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Willg on the Young American 8)
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Bri-in-RI on the Young American 8)
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SCHWINNRAY69 said:
These were taken at the swap meet today! :mrgreen:
Been waiting a long time for you to post some pics. Sweet Bike, great in action :D Thanks for posting
Thanks guys about the DQ run (warm March). Think Skipton commutes with his so he's probably the highest miles
Hope more people are getting back out with the nice weather
Steve
 
It was a perfect weather day in Mpls! 80F, low humidity, and really sunny :D
So I corralled my wife into a short ride on the Spaceliners
Action Shot by the community garden
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There's a big car show in town this weekend. Saw this Rat Rod Vette at the playground 8)
Big honking 6 cyclinder with 3 carbs
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Thought I'd like to get a shot of me too :lol:
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Some kid on the swings said "Nice bikes". Thanks! :D
Fun to ride on the 'Liners again, Hopefully some other people got out today too
Thanks for looking
Steve
 
Thanks GCrank and Skipton! :D
Hopefully you caught some of the other Rat Rod cars that my FIL and me saw on Sunday:
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So since I took out the Liner lately but have been riding the Felt more,
I realized I really miss the Spaceliner (still have to fix the creaky BB)
I also got inspired again after Jackdaw got the chrome frame thread going (thanks Bud)
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Unfortunately for a lot of people SW of MN (Colorado fires),
We are getting a fair amount of smoke in our skies
Lots of bright orange sunrises and sunsets
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Thanks for looking
Steve
 
Mplscoaster came to Chicago last weekend and brought his super cool Spaceliner from Build Off 6

The bike is soooo fast it's hard to get pics of it :roll: :wink:
Here Oldgreaser (Rik) is pulling away for a speed run.
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My wife LOVED riding this bike!
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"This bike is awesome "
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Pics of me riding the HotRodLiner...
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Rik and Steve both took my RRBO5 bike BlueX for a Spin..

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I think Steve has pics of Rik on BlueX
Three RatRodders and Two Build Off Bikes
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Hey it's about time to start seeing some of the BO7 bikes in this thread.
 
Here is a photo from the last ride of my RRB BO7 TwinFlex Flex-Liner 7 work in progress. It's getting there.

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Thanks for posting the other pics Skipton.
The action art shots of the Spaceliner in the rain are too cool

Kingfish: we may have quite a few more visiting now, I hope...
Yours looks good in front of the fountain!

Okay, so now that I have some time after the build off,
I'm going to add the pictures from the next day after visisting Skipton in Chicago

Next morning (after the Skipton and Rick gathering) I went for a ride to find the beach while my wife went for a run
It was only about a mile away (way over shot it the first time) :lol:

This shot was when I realized why my seat hurt (unusual) becasue it tilited backward :lol:
Really nice morning!
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Looks really differnt shooting into the sun, HUGE Beach, I'm in heaven!

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Rode out to the end of the pier
When I was doing this shot, a guys says "Those are some wide whitewalls!" must be the glare :lol:
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Kinda like the curving of the pier in this shot
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One more with downtown Chicago int he background
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So head back to the hotel, really cool little street it was on
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Headed out with my Wife , back to the beach
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It was GREAT! Super soft sand, lots of space, sunny and ~90. we both ended up falling asleep :lol:
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After some sun, sand and water, we headed down the lake
Lots of people take their bikes to the beach volley ball courts
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Back out on the pier for some more shots
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Sea gulls hung out here. Funniest thing I saw was seagulls eating bees that were after the clover?! :lol:
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Nice shot looking out to the lake of my wife. Heard some monster motor power boats in the background
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One of me
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Rode for a several more miles and just absorbed the great day
Later that day we rode to get some chicago style pizza (MMMmmm!)
We ended up having to weave through the thousands of Cubs fans exiting Wrigley field :shock: :lol:

This area (just north of Downtown) reminds me of Uptown Mpls but enormous
My Wife took one more shot at the hotel
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Packed up the next day and headed home. Kinda short trip but well worth it, for a whole bunch of reasons
Thanks again Rick and Skipton

Thanks for looking
Steve
 

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