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The Renaissance Man said:
Sid stood tall at the Get-A-Grip bike show yesterday and brought home a top twenty award! There were quite a few muscle bikes along with many other great bikes spanning from pre-war to BMX to full-blown customs. The weather was perfect and there were some good deals to be found at the swap meet. The first thing I got was a pair of vintage gold glitter grips to use as a stand-in for the naked handlebars and immediately slid them on for the show.

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If any of you are looking for a good bike show, forum member @dorr always hosts a great one every first Saturday of November!
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I’ll get there one of these years
 
MattiThundrrr said:
So you went to Get-A-Grip, and you got... grips! Checks out.
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Bicycle synchronicity!

CRASH said:
That's awesome! I'll be doing the "grips on Billy Bars" thing shortly with my Rail. The owner who I'm building it for had it that way when he was a kid.
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It's a reasonable substitute until the planets align for some tape. As you well know, there were many bikes that were sold this way.

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I've been sorting all of my bike parts into storage bins lately and last month I noticed this headlight in my pile of lights. The shape of it along with the stacked bulbs just screamed muscle bike to me. When I held it up in front of Sid I was convinced!

Unfortunately there were batteries in it that had leaked and rotted parts of the inside. So behind the scenes last week I took it apart, and cleaned up the rust with navel jelly.
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The lever switch had completely detached due to the rivet being dissolved away by the battery acid. To repair it, I tapped the hole to 4-40 and reattached it with a 4-40 machine screw. To lock-in the bolt with the correct tension on the spring I added a jam nut to the back side. Unfortunately I couldn't find a proper nut in my tiny bolts collection, so I had to resort to making one. It's not very pretty but it works and is inside anyway so it won't be seen.


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One of the battery contacts was rotted away but I was able to take what was left of it and bend it around to make it work. (I forgot to take a picture of that.)
Much to my surprise, everything worked perfectly with a new pair of batteries. And it's bright!
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Having the luxury of time left for the all important photo shoot, I rolled Sid out of the shop for some quick test shots with my phone camera. I'm only trying to determine the best angle in advance so that when I decide on a location I won't be wasting time with bad poses.

I'm finding out that it is difficult to frame a good shot due to the tall sissy bar! I ended up with 18 shots and after a quick scroll through, here's one of a few that has potential.

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The Renaissance Man said:
Having the luxury of time left for the all important photo shoot, I rolled Sid out of the shop for some quick test shots with my phone camera. I'm only trying to determine the best angle in advance so that when I decide on a location I won't be wasting time with bad poses.

I'm finding out that it is difficult to frame a good shot due to the tall sissy bar! I ended up with 18 shots and after a quick scroll through, here's one of a few that has potential.

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🔥🔥🔥🔥
 
The Renaissance Man said:
Check out this ad for the Swinger.

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I think that the illustrator who drew this was having some real struggles figuring out what was going on with the handlebars! :21:
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Or, if this an early advert, they may actually have used a photo that was later changed before the launch. I used to work for a motorcycle company, and I could always see detail differences between the advertising photos they used of the late development models and the actual bikes sold.
 
OddJob said:
"This bike will not only pop a wheelie, but it will flip you 'the bird' as well."
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I can't not see that now. :21:

GeePig said:
Or, if this an early advert, they may actually have used a photo that was later changed before the launch. I used to work for a motorcycle company, and I could always see detail differences between the advertising photos they used of the late development models and the actual bikes sold.
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There are actually many things that are not quite right in that illustration. :39:
 

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