Kingfish254's Finds 5/20 Crosss Brace Bars

[SCHWINNRAY69]

You found some cool stuff lately!

[kingfish254]

You found some cool stuff lately!

Thanks. And I sold some cool stuff in the Sale forum too. Now I have more money to buy cool stuff that I can either use or sell to get more money for more cool stuff.

[kingfish254]

Yard sales have been weak the past few weeks. I did pick up a lighted stickshift knob for $1.
This week I will be picking up 3 old wooden water skis. I really want to try and make a banana seat out of one, so I picked up a pair of wooden crutches to use as a sissy bar.

[kingfish254]

Broke down the Fuji cruiser for parts.
The chainring cleaned up pretty well.


The wheelset and tires where still pretty good. I decided that I am going to sell the Schwinn SS Sport, but only after I remove the cool parts and replace them with parts from the Fuji. I should be able to sell the resulting bike for what I paid for it originally and I get some cool parts.

[outskirtscustoms]

Broke down the Fuji cruiser for parts.
The chainring cleaned up pretty well.

That would be an awesome chain ring to modify into a skip tooth. If it's an even number of teeth just grind every other tooth off. I did it to a huffy and it looked sweet.

[kingfish254]

Cool idea. That will still work with a regular chain, right?

[yoothgeye]

Cool idea. That will still work with a regular chain, right?

Yes, no problem... unless you want to get technical. Technically it would put more stress on the chainring and less on the chain, but then technically it would put more strain on every other link on the chain, but technically as long as the chain is fully engaging half of the teeth of the chainring, then the stress should be negated, though technically if your chainline is slightly off, you are more likely to throw the chain, about twice as likely, though that's only technically if you already have an alignment issue.

Of course all of these are technicalities, and since when have rat rodders cared about theirs.

[kingfish254]

Here is the lighted shifter knob I picked up for a buck.
Also the wood water skis. I really like the inlay work on the single ski. It is going to make a cool banana seat. My original plan was just to make the seats flat, but I wonder if there is a way to knder cut these with multiple groves that would allow me to curve down the sides and nose of the seat????? Hhhhmmmmmmmmm.

[kingfish254]

Nothing special but should be able to flip it for $100 profit. Univega DS600 with decent components.
(SOLD)

[kingfish254]

Cleaned/Tuned up the Univega and put it up for sale.

Picked up a 12 Crescent Wrench and this copper pepper shaker for a buck.
This is the perfect size for an easy tallight/headlight conversion.
Maybe I should turn it around and have a "P" taillight????

[kingfish254]

Just finished sending payment for this Sturmey Archer 5 Speed Hub from a fellow RRBer.
The only wheel I ever laced was back around 1973 when I laced up a new rim on the back of my 3 speed Sears Screamer 2.
This should be fun.
(SOLD)

[kingfish254]

Great turnaround on the Univega. Cleared $100 in less than 48 hours. Plus I still have some Ritchey clipless pedals to sell.

Just finished cleaning and tuning one of the bargain Dahon's I bought last year. Just put it on CL and Ebay.

[lildietz]

I definitely want to follow this thread.

[kingfish254]

I definitely want to follow this thread.

Thanks, but I'm just an old guy that gets a kick out of hunting down bargains and making a little extra coin to pay for my hobby of tinkering with bikes.

[lildietz]

I wish I had the time and the space.