Thanks guys, I got my handlebars sorted today and wrapped them in some old school vinyl grip tape, and slapped some new grips on it too. Hopefully I'll get some decent pictures of her this weekend.
I rode a bike for the first time in probably 10 years today! I did about 4 miles or so on this girl, believe it or not. Even with the loose handle bars and metal seat pan HAHA, so worth it though!
Thanks guys! I'm really looking forward to having this thing to ride around!
well the stripper worked, if you look in the basket on the first picture you can see what the tank looked like before I stripped off the first layer of paint.
I found this bike while delivering a VW that my friend built for a client a few months back. While we were delivering the ragtop beetle for him, I noticed this old bike that had tons of other old stuff just piled on top of it. So a few months went by and I decided to call and see if I could make...
Thanks guys! I'm from Tennessee btw
Yeah the tank was a total shocker to me! You can see what it looked like in the basket in the first picture. I was expecting it to be taken down to bare metal so whenever scraped off the paint and that old paint from underneath stayed there, I about crapped...
Hey guys! My name is Robert but most people call me RowBoat.
I've been wanting to get a cool old bike of some sort for a while now to ride around at car shows and to cruise around at different events and whatnot. Originally I was looking at old BMX bikes because I was very big into that stuff...