Kingfish254's Finds 6/15 Tiki Time

[kingfish254]

Check out what I found underneath the top tube cover!!!!!!
I am used to making money off of bikes, but not finding money on them.

[outskirtscustoms]

Read the part there "This note is not legal tender....."

[kingfish254]

Read the part there "This note is not legal tender....."

It's also about 8" long by 3" wide. But it was still a cool find hidden away for the past 30 years!!

[kingfish254]

Great finds B!! Ya know I'd rock that Swinger! That seat is sweet. Let me know if ya part it or keep ya peeled for one for me. Have a good trip and I'll see ya at the starting line. Peace

Thanks Jake. You know I can't give up that nanner! Too hard to come by around here.

[yoothgeye]

Was that some sort of promotional bill (anything on other side) or was it just play money?

[kingfish254]

Was that some sort of promotional bill (anything on other side) or was it just play money?

It describes different US currency on the other side. No bike promo stuff. Just a cool item some kid stuck in his bike 30 years ago.

[yoothgeye]

Was that some sort of promotional bill (anything on other side) or was it just play money?

It describes different US currency on the other side. No bike promo stuff. Just a cool item some kid stuck in his bike 30 years ago.

Tell the truth though, you got excited when you first uncovered it right?

[kingfish254]

Was that some sort of promotional bill (anything on other side) or was it just play money?

It describes different US currency on the other side. No bike promo stuff. Just a cool item some kid stuck in his bike 30 years ago.

Tell the truth though, you got excited when you first uncovered it right?

I was excited to see anything under there, but because of the size, there was no mistaking it for a real bill.

[kingfish254]

My Uncle (who has built more than a few street rods in his time) send me a surprise last week.
He had this Heineken tap sitting around his shop for a while. After seeing photos of BEER RUN beer bike from last year, he thought that I could find a use for this.

[yoothgeye]

My Uncle (who has built more than a few street rods in his time) send me a surprise last week.
He had this Heineken tap sitting around his shop for a while. After seeing photos of BEER RUN beer bike from last year, he thought that I could find a use for this.

Years ago I contacted a friend of mine that was a bartender and asked about beer taps for use as a gear shift knob, later a package arrived with a note "Since you really don't drink, I thought this was perfect." It's a root beer tap, pretty cool, brass and wood, anyone doing a non-beer themed beer bike? haha

[kingfish254]

My Uncle (who has built more than a few street rods in his time) send me a surprise last week.
He had this Heineken tap sitting around his shop for a while. After seeing photos of BEER RUN beer bike from last year, he thought that I could find a use for this.

Years ago I contacted a friend of mine that was a bartender and asked about beer taps for use as a gear shift knob, later a package arrived with a note "Since you really don't drink, I thought this was perfect." It's a root beer tap, pretty cool, brass and wood, anyone doing a non-beer themed beer bike? haha

That's funny.
Root beer, birch beer, ginger beer, ginger ale, etc.

[largek9]

[quote="kingfish254"]Check out what I found underneath the top tube cover!!!!!!
I am used to making money off of bikes, but not finding money on them.

Didn't somebody have something about money in an old bike tank in there signature?

[kingfish254]

I know that my guide in Bali thought I was crazy today, when I asked him to turn around to go back to a little roadside shop that had a bunch of bike frames stacked out front.



Here is the local bike repair dude in a small village in central Bali.



He let me jump into his junky workshop.




I was hoping to find some old Brooks like seats or big bike bells. Most of the parts where newer parts. There were some cool full cover chainguards, but I knew I couldn't pack those well. It was fun rumaging through his pile. I really felt like Frank on American Pickers.

Here is what I ended up with. A cool old 56T "TROPICAL" cottered chainring. What a perfect souvenir from Bali. This is going to hang in my shop.
Sorry, I couldn't come up with a nicer backdrop. This is the rice field view we have from our bedroom patio.


He also let me have this beat up motrbike tag

[aka_locojoe]

Here is what I ended up with. A cool old 56T "TROPICAL" cottered chainring. What a perfect souvenir from Bali. This is going to hang in my shop.

How cool!

[largek9]

[quote="kingfish254"]I know that my guide in Bali thought I was crazy today, when I asked him to turn around to go back to a little roadside shop that had a bunch of bike frames stacked out front.



Yea we know you could smell that place a mile away! We would expect no less! Thats cool. Tom