OK, since you asked. This bike started out as a healthy protest against gas prices. I picked up a "Next La Jolla" (Wally World bike) from craigslist. Took it all apart, and sand blasted the frame. After thinking about it, and looking at the bare frame I decided to rod it. Gotta love Americana! So one night I laid out my pattern, center punched and then proceeded to drill roughly 200 holes in the frame for 1/8" rivets. Next I painted her flat black and popped the rivets. Put on a 26" bent springer fork from lovely lowrider.com as well as the fenders, front and rear brakes, and banana seat. After some more time of cruising I decided it was time for a change again. So wrapped the seat and grips in leopard, stripped a mountain bike of it's gears, and added a shimano 6oo friction shifter. Of course, none of the stuff "wanted" to go on the bike. So after some sheetmetal work here and there (cut and cleaned fender, and chain gaurd, fabbed braket for the deraileur, fabbed bracket for the headlight, fabbed bracket for the front brake caliper, and fabbed bracket for the fiction shifter) she was ready to go. Being that the frame is aluminum, I aint weldin on it. Now Im kinda dreaming about a cantilever frame I can stretch. Oh, yeah other cool stuff..The headlight has an LED car turn signal and a projector lense, and the tail light (not pictured) has two LED's. One LED stays on with the lights and one lights up when I hit the brakes. That's what that little switch in the frame is. Well, long answer, but a lot of fun!
