RRBBO7 HYPE UP THREAD!

[ndaway]

Since I am new this year will be my first watching AND participating got an early 50s j c Higgins ballooner.I am just in Cuz I love building I have looked at the old build offs and I wont be any competition you guys are amazing but it will be a blast to be a part of

[yoothgeye]

Personally, I don't even see the need for voting. What does it matter? When the bikes are done, we can just all look at them and say, "Wow, that's cool."

You have to be careful about this type of thing. Voting can ruin things if not kept under control. It reminds me of the local Easter Egg hunt I take my kids to. The people running it only have very small prizes such as dimes and quarters and small candies in the eggs. When they had larger prizes, some people got a bit wacky helping their kids collect eggs and looking in the eggs and putting them back if the prize paper wasn't in the egg they found, and others got a bit uptight if their kid didn't win the big prize. And generally speaking, these people kinda ruined it for everyone else, so the normal people tended to quit coming to the Easter Egg hunt while the wacky people tended to take over. It got bad. So the people running the Easter Egg hunt said, "Enough!" and out went the big prizes and back came the fun.

Focus on the fun is what I am saying. The voting is meaningless.

Please let me just ruin it for everybody.

[tanksalot]

So to simplify are you trying to say the prize should be a egg but not a golden egg..?

[outskirtscustoms]

The only reason I even want to win is simply for the bragging rights. I could care less about prizes. Just to know I built a cool bike that people will talk about for years to come is enough to motivate me to push the limits of what I can do, pull out all the stops, and build a bike that will turn heads.

[Gold Street Customs]

As long as I beat Youthgeye and Schwinnray69....I'm good!!!

[outskirtscustoms]

As long as I finish mine by the deadline I'm good. Lots of plans and only a short time to do it.

[Peatbog]

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with wanting to win, but for me, if the winning takes away the fun of playing, I'll find another sport. I build bikes as a form of relaxation. I want to keep it that way. I already have enough forms of stress.

I just have too many things going on right now to care too much about winning a bike build off. That is the reason I decided go with an easy to build bike to begin with. Less stress is good at this particular time.

One of the good things about this contest is there isn't a huge prize for winning that may make some people go a little overboard in order to win it.

But if an Easter Basket was involved, I might be more persuaded to push myself. I like hard boiled, multicolored eggs. Who doesn't?

[SCHWINNRAY69]

The face of a "Bike Bum"

Looks like a barn find to me.

Occupation
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[SCHWINNRAY69]

As long as I beat Youthgeye and Schwinnray69....I'm good!!!

Sounds like a challange...

[kingfish254]

There was one bike that posted nothing but the completed bike just a few days before the deadline and I think that was the guys first post on the site. Your son should be fine.

Just for the record, cool bike or not, cool guy or not, I don't appreciate this. I don't just vote on a finished product, I vote on the journey, and in the build off I feel like we're all on this journey together, some of us take the whole time, some take less, but I don't wanna meet anyone waiting at the finish line who doesn't look sweaty and tired like the rest of us.

Yea, that one got my blood boiling! He posted in the finished bike section, and got 12 votes!

(Possible memory fade, this may have happened in RRBO5. That means it's becoming a habit!)

I wasn't condoning what the blue bottle tank bike did. When that one showed up at the last minute in the finished bike section, I was ticked me off as well. It was a great looking bike, but it could have been one that was built 5 years ago or just bought from someone.

I know that there is no way that Chips plans for his son to do that. Just look at the cool build that his son is already doing.

[yoothgeye]

As long as I beat Youthgeye and Schwinnray69....I'm good!!!

Sounds like a challange...

We can take him.

[yoothgeye]

But if an Easter Basket was involved, I might be more persuaded to push myself. I like hard boiled, multicolored eggs. Who doesn't?

I'll hard boil and dye the eggs tonight and hold onto them till the end of the build-off. Maybe I'll keep them in the attic till I put them in a box to ship to the winner.

[JoKeR63]

I wasn't condoning what the blue bottle tank bike did. When that one showed up at the last minute in the finished bike section, I was ticked me off as well. It was a great looking bike, but it could have been one that was built 5 years ago or just bought from someone.

I know that there is no way that Chips plans for his son to do that. Just look at the cool build that his son is already doing.

Ok, that wasn't the one I was thinking of. Plus Chips has gone out of his way to do this right. Also KF I understand you don't condon this kind of behavior.
The guy I'm refering to's very first post was in the finished bike section, a clear violation of the rules. And most of us old timers would like to see an intro post as a first post, so it should have been at least #2!

To me the build report is the most important part of the whole thing. There's a gallery section for showing off cool bikes. I really wish I could remember what bike this was, but it was definitely from RRBO5.

(edit) Found it! It was Naked 41, a grand total of 7 posts, musta' scared him off!

[Peatbog]

I have better plans for next year's build. By then I should have everything I need to build that bike. Of course by then, I'll have changed my mind. Or I'll get the stuff too soon, won't want to wait, and have it done by the build and have to find something else. The problem is my best free time lies in September-February usually.

[Houndog]

We had a build off on a custom drum forum I'm on, this new guy shows up and makes a really cool totally homebuilt drum..
Only problem was it didn;t sound very good...He got real crappy with everyone when he didn't win...

He didn't stick around for long after that,it's definetly not a place for those with thin skin on that forum...
We didn't even have a prize!!!!!