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I'm recovering from Low Back Surgery so I've been quiet this year...

It's been awhile since I posted one of my completed bikes here. I purchased this complete pre-1947 Schwinn World bike off Craigslist last summer simply for the Schwinn World Brass Nameplate for my 1949 Schwinn World Project for the same price it would have cost me on eBay for the nameplate...

Out of all of the Vintage bikes I own, this is now my favorite. It was a basket case when I got the frame and fork and the paint was beyond bad. I then had it sandblasted and decided to go with Cherry Red by Krylon. I was told that a Schwinn Middleweight would ride better than a comparable...

After fussing with it for most of the winter, I think I finally have it dialed in...it rides wonderfully. Here is the thread on what it looked like last summer... http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9819 And this is what it looks like today...eventually, I'll have it powder-coated.

Now that the Snow has melted (at least until it returns this weekend) I decided to take a short shake down ride of my Winter Build. Not terribly happy with the ride, and will probably mount some Electra Retro Runners instead of the Bontrager Hank's (which can't seem to find a happy home on any...

Did anyone score one of these?

I picked up this barn find at an Antique Store in Toledo, Ohio about a month ago. After checking with the fine folks on CABE, it was determined that I likely had a 1936 CWC Model bike, as the head badge is missing. My conundrum is what to call it? It was thought that the paint was in great...

This was a basket case of a frame that was badly mistreated in its earlier lives. I paid $40.00 for her. The rear triangle is noticeably bent on the left side but not enough to affect its ride or tracking, someone apparently fired a staple gun at the seat post as there are numerous staple like...

Here it is...The Crock Pot Alarm has sounded - My big fat caboose has already started to bend the seat post (that will make two in less than two weeks!) :oops: Since the last photos posted in the Gallery Section, I've changed out certain components to the following: Seat: Phat Cycles Wheels...

Since I wasn't happy with my first attempt at building a Rat Rod from scratch, I took most of those parts and put them on this bike. Just like Microsoft doesn't get anything right until ver. 3.0 of their software issues, I'm currently fumbling along the way getting towards ver 3.0. Maybe at this...

Pictured below is the bike that first got me into cruisers. Perhaps this should be posted on the other forum Rat Rod has - Schwinn Bicycle Forum, but some people here wanted to see my other bikes...here is the first one. This past weekend I decided to switch out the White Wall tires and paint...

I just "assembled" the first bike in my life and ran into some "issues". Like - Chain issues, Fork issues, Headset issues, and of course, Wheel issues. Never thought it would take me 3 days (a few hours each day) to put together a simple bike like this. I have learned a lot. The finished product...

Where do I begin? I last purchased a bike, a Schwinn Super Le Tour 12.2 in 1978...using it to pedal 128 miles in one day in 1980 on a trip from Troy, MI to Sarnia, Ontario and back...then for some odd reason in 2006 decided to purchase a couple of Road Bikes, then a Mountain Bike, then a Single...