Recent content by Bike from the Dead

Thank you! I just wish we had swap meets like this in or near Tulsa, Oklahoma. If I want to hit a good bicycle swap meet, I have to drive roughly 3 hours away from home, and out-of-state.

Cool! I wasn't sure when Snyder stopped building bikes, so it's cool to know that! I bought it from the original owner, and he said he got it brand new in either 1969 or 1970, so that's right on the money. Funny thing I've noticed: certain distributors seemed to favor certain manufacturers...

It is! Downtown Tulsa!

Thanks! This bike's already fun to race around on with a single speed, so I can only imagine how much more fun it'd be with additional gears! I still remember the first time I saw one of these StingRays when I was a kid. One of my brother's neighborhood friends, Tyler, had one of the regular...

Last but not least, here are all 3 semi-complete bikes I got for free at Haysville. The first two are this AMF Western Flyer Sonic Flyer girls' bike and AMF Skyrider men's bike. I got both of them for headset and bottom bracket parts for another AMF bike I'm working on, but both could turn into...

Now for all the frames I picked up from Haysville. First is this 20 inch AMF bike I pulled from the free pile, sort of last-minute. I got it for the headset and bottom bracket hardware to use on another bike, but I may either build up this frame or just put it back in the free pile next year...

This next one's going to be broken down into 3 posts due to the amount of photos. I went to the Haysville, Kansas Bicycle Swap Meet for the 2nd time earlier this Sunday. While I didn't have the best of luck selling the few items I brought up with me, I did have a good time shopping, swapping...

This past weekend produced the biggest haul of the year so far! Last Friday, I attended the Tulsa Swap Meet in Kellyville, Oklahoma. I wasn't expecting to find a whole lot as far as bicycle parts and projects go, at least within my budget, but I wound up bringing home some good stuff for $75...

Now for the 2 noteworthy bikes I got out of this 7-bike lot. The first one is this 1968 Schwinn Stingray that someone converted to a BMX bike back in the day. It was a factory green bike originally, but it's since been painted black. It's also clear whoever converted it to a BMX bike definitely...

Back in March, I picked up 7 bikes for free off of Facebook Marketplace. Most of them weren't anything exciting, aside from a few parts I could use, but the last 2 bikes were definitely worth taking the whole lot. Here are the first 5 bikes. I don't have much interest in this Mongoose, but it...

Admittedly, I didn't have enough time to run by G Oscar's before heading to Central Tech to sign up for my welding class, so by the time I got there, nearly all the bikes and frames were already gone. However, I scored plenty of good tires, tubes and other parts that more than made up for it. I...

I've been running behind on updating my threads here. Let's fix that! Back in February, on the same day I signed up for my first welding class, I saw an ad on Craigslist for a bunch of free bikes and parts from a former local bike shop I used to visit: G Oscar Bicycles. The shop closed a year...

I've got a few ideas for a few different bikes, but I haven't decided on what to enter yet.

Never heard of that trick! I'll have to check it out.

Rode Shoestring around the neighborhood earlier this morning. Decided to have a little fun and clamp an Ace to the front rack for more horsepower.