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so i was browsing instructables and i found something that might interest a few of you http://www.instructables.com/id/48V_Ele ... t_Tracker/ basically how to put an electric motor on your bike from scratch, looks pretty neat. i wouldnt be surprised if it was some genius from this site that...

pretty sure its a hawthorne frame, it may look rusty but its nothing damaging, just age the bike rides smooth. Heck it already looked like a ratrod no need to change it. The lady i got it from only wanted 40 bucks, said it would make a great lawn ornament. I think it will clean up nicely, it has...

...since i visited this site. I'm not sure what it was that stopped me from coming here, school was a big issue, the decision to go back to school full time and goto work full time so i could manage to afford my new place of living. Whatever it was this site and my hobby of old bikes has been...

Well i finished it folks, it was a last minute ordeal :P but i added a few new things, mainly a light, and borrowed a chain from another bike and took it for a spin, its a tank and man can it cruise :P enough jibber jabber though here or some pics it was a great build off and i...

hey there, i know this is a bike forum but i also know quite a few of you own beetles or used to. anyways i have this dilemma with mine, i just started working on it and i thought i would accessorize a little bit and bought some of those metal headlight visors for them off of jc whitney...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqTpw6L2pI this just made my day :D :D not sure if he has a deathwish or not but it made me laugh :P

hey there guys, i just saw this section on the site while at work and decided that i would contribute when i got home. so i got home the super beetle has been a project car of mine for awhile, i just now got an engine in it and new brakes and all sorts of other stuff, and i needed to take it...

ok i forgot the camera when i saw this, but i promise to get photos of it. My mom bought this bike from an old lady who said it would make a great "lawn ornament" i have no clue what kinda of bike it is. The frame has a skiptooth hawthorne sprocket and a new departure hub, twin tube straight bar...

i have to share this with you all http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8f6_1216241496 it just made my day :P

http://www.bikecult.com/works/chainwheel.html stumbled upon this site that showcases a bunch of different crank styles, thought i'd share it with everyone :D

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/608546617.html :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

so one of the professors that works in my building came up to me and was switching over to a digital camera, and was wondering if i want the rest of his "film and stuff" i said sure outa curiousity. well this is what he brought me today 2 minolta x-700s and a Nikon FMJ there were also some...

well some of you may have seen the fleet wing bike i recently purchased. Apparently its a 1940s postal bike, i havn't looked up the serial yet, anyways here is a photo of it. here is a photo of the headbadge if anyone is curious and here is a photo of the nightmare that i may or may not...

http://gainesville.craigslist.org/bik/721662912.html my friend showed me this bike and i thought it looked pretty killer, plus skip tooth. I've never heard of a schwinn built fleet wing, but the headbadge looks familiar. they are asking 140, should i take the plunge?

i'm throwing my hat in the ring, unfortunately im moving soon and most of my stuff is packed up or in storage.....but soon i will have something, probably use the schwinn ladies frame i have sitting around

stumbled upon this today, thought i'd share it with you guys :P http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/22/puls ... -commutes/

this also goes all to everyone else, but mainly to fixies just because they sometimes don't have brakes. Please be safe, a friend of mine rides a fixed gear bike and got hit by a car the other night, the car drove off and left her in the road with 8 broken teeth and a jaw cracked in 3...

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=34461 here is a neat video filmed by Edison of cyclist doing bike tricks in 1899....oldschool :p

but i also know a lot of you folks are car people too.... and some of you own vw beetles... ok the point of this is that im working on my very first beetle and also very first car :p and its missing the drivers side vent window...how do i go about getting one? i can find every other part for...

2manybikes and theflyingdingo are pretty swell guys! thanks to them i can now finish The Red Baron