My gray bike

[BLASTER]

This is my bike that probably most fits what's going on, on this site....I'm thinkin'.

This was just after I'd finished it like five years ago.
At this point I had pretty much zero dollars in it aside from pedals, pointy hand grips and brake shoes.
Primer gray and clear enamel rattle can.
I have no idea who manufactured the frame.
Anybody know how I can tell?
I got the frame from my friend Hank of Helotes Bicycle...AWESOME shop.
This was a rusty frame with a nice cruiser handle bar on it that I wanted for my wifee's bike.
He said they were $10 or free if I took the frame with me....DEAL!
Somewhere between six or eight bikes donated something to this bike.
Put the word out that you're looking for old bikes and all kinds of stuff will show up.
Mostly wallymart mountain bikes with bent wheels.
It took a while to accumulate the parts...especially the straight set of alloy wheels.
My brother in law, the skinny tire racer, gave me the NOS, '70s, white cable line.
It was a coaster, but now it's a five-speed....forced in.
I want to upgrade to v-brakes with those adapters that I learned about from this site.
NEAT!

Now it looks like this.
Pretty much the same, but I put some money into tires...uni-directional "Hemisphere"...nice... and did away with the angled seat post that sucked for my back on longer rides.

This thing really rides good.
It's a good wheely bike.
The late model fork gives it a little bit of a rake.
Lots of cheap, readily availble parts in this one.

I want to get some toe clips on it.
I'm hooked on toe-clips.
Maybe a shiney, chrome-molly, seat post.

My next build will be mo' ratty.

 

[GodHatesCleveland]

That's a nice rat, clean and functional. It seems like everybody's doing clunkers again or going with a BMX cruiser style, so if that's 5 years old you're way ahead of the curve.

I have no idea who manufactured the frame.
Anybody know how I can tell?

The serial number will give you a clue, both the number itself and where it's stamped. I wouldn't be surprised if someone here will know just by looking at the sprocket and chain guard.

 

[jtdaddy]

That is a real functional, cool bike. I think what else is neat is your storey behind it. Nice job. 8)

 

[OUTLAW]

nice clunker,way to go

Outlaw :mrgreen:

 

[Tempe-Terror]

Frame and chain guard look Murray. Cool bike, I like the flow the angled seat post gave it.

 

[BLASTER]

Yes, the chain guard is Murray....taken off my wifee's beach cruiser before it went away.
I drilled a little hole in the frame for an attaching point.
The frame has some age on it.
Could be Murray, I suppose.
Kinda hope not.
They make junky lawnmowers. :mrgreen:
No numbers stamped anywhere or under crank area.
I wish I would have snapped a pic when I dragged it home from Helotes Bicycle.

The front sprocket is half of a pair of sprockets from some random mountain bike or old 10-speed.

I just learned about the "Clunker" thing from this site a few days ago.
I like it!
I want to get that DVD about the early days of it.

Thanks for the compliments!

 

[Tempe-Terror]

Yeah now that I look at it the bottom tube is too curvy to be Murray. take a picture of where your rear brake is mounted and maybe it can be figured out from there, my next guess is Huffy.

 

[KOTA]

Looks like a nice comfortable "hill climbing" RAT!..............Great job! 8)

 

[BLASTER]

Thankee!

Here's some closer detailed pics.
Maybe somebody recognizes something.

A clue?

Here's that rear brake area Tempe-Terror requested.

The underside.
Kinda jankee, but it works.
The rack is actually part of the brake mount now.

No old badge attaching holes in the head tube.
The smaller frame tubes are just cut square where I've seen them rounded closed on similar frames.
The caps on the ends are from some film processing equipment we were getting rid of at work.
How comvenient.

EMPI is a VW performance parts carrier.
They used to make their own parts, but now it's all chinese.
I need to put something else up there.

 

[Tempe-Terror]

Well definitely not a Huffy. Maybe AMF or Rollfast something like that, hard to tell on cantilever frames sometimes.

 

[Tempe-Terror]

I take it back, I do think it's a Huffy. I checked the serial number on one of my 60's Huffys and it's in the same spot and reads 4H201948.

 

[BLASTER]

Hey man....that sounds right to me with the "H" and the same number of digits!
Nice work!
I like the idea of it being an older Huffy.
Mid-'60s perhaps.

Thanks, Tempe-Terror!

Maybe I need something like this on it now.

 

[johnny nightwolf]

Very clean, cool look! Nice job!

 

[sensor]

yeah id say its a huffy based on the dropouts(the 20 or less has the same dropouts and thats a huffy,and the donor bike i have is also a huffy and has the same dropouts)

 

[CCR]

everything looks just like my older huffy i just did, "crusty huffy" in the build threads. is there a whole in the top of the crank housing by chance ?? it had a decal badge on it.

 

[BLASTER]

everything looks just like my older huffy i just did, "crusty huffy" in the build threads. is there a whole in the top of the crank housing by chance ?? it had a decal badge on it.

Hey.
My gray bike is still getting some love.
Thanks!

Yes it has the hole.
What is it, a rain catcher?

I made the hole in the frame for the chain guard.

Sweet ride, CCR!
I need a proper grocery getting basket.
The rack on the back of mine is fairly useless, but not completely.

Here's an older pic of it that I like.
...with the angled seat post.

I rode it through the drive-thru at my bank to deposit some skateboard revenue checks today.

 

[CCR]

the hole is for the original chainguard mount though it could catch rain if you wanted i suppose :mrgreen:

just strap a milk crate on that rack and your set !!!
yours looks like a real clean functional bike and i like they lay bay seat post, looks comfy

 

[greggah]

nice ride .. what is up w/ the madwagon.. you got in one pic. show that !!!!

 

[BLASTER]

Thanks!
I love my Madwagon and do plan to write something about it...as well as my others.

 

[BLASTER]

Man...I had to dig for this thread!

Did some stuff to the gray bike.

Installed some 50-caliber bullets in the frame.
Drilled and tapped holes for set screws.
I need to find some slightly shorter set screws.
They polished up nicely.

Slapped on a cool Pocket Pistol (skateboards) sticker....and found a nice old metal cable to frame bracket...replacing the cheesey plastic one.

Pretty stylin'!
This thing hauls butt compared to the coasters I've been working with lately. :lol: