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this came up on my app that aggregates free posts on a couple of apps I use. I didn't see it for about 20 minutes so i was sure had to have been gone by the time i contacted the person, but apparently, that it was positioned behind another bike in the ad as well, a really rusted girls micargi...

I picked up this one a few miles from home for about 30 bucks. I tried to finesse the orange paint off it, but it wasnt having it from me that day... so with no real good chance at keeping a original paint on it. i went for the aggressive tactic and stipped it down to metal. I am just...

I used to smoke. I would smoke djarm specials, clove cigarettes. They were very enjoyable but the first act in office by President Obama was to have me quit smoking. He made selling them in the US illegal in 2009 to "protect the children" and I was pissed, but am much better off for it. But...

A while back I had posted a bicycle I had at the time. It was a Firmstrong, the Chief model and i made it blue. No sooner than i had posted it, it was stolen when it was locked up in front of a store down the way. There goes #2 I thought and kissed it goodbye. for closure I went online to...

I picked up from Wendell (a machinist down the street who decided to buy lots of bikes from auction and sell them) a really ragged and limping along Huffy for $10, along with a triple tree fork he had for another $10 (which i added to a firmstrong chief cruiser) so... $20 and away I went. I...

I picked up a couple of frames and 2 rims, as well as a headset for $20 Not bad, they were in good shape and were both aluminum, I posted previously on the first one. this one, it was a OP Roller frame, I'd had one before, but really didn't like how it ended up. I'd seen twenty 2 that was built...

I picked up 2 bike frames and a set of rims for $20 BUCKS. one frame was a OP roller, the other looked interesting. it was aluminum with good welding, nice geometry... on it was the words Northrock and OC. looked it up, but not to many good things was out there. It came with 1 1/8th inch...

The other day I found online a ad for a Firmstrong the Chief Cruiser.... $30 bucks. I called and in about 20 minutes... it was mine. right as I was getting to the place to buy it, I got a call from another person I contacted for another ad... and they were selling 2 OP cruisers.... for a...

Saw an ad for a very 70's looking 10 speed, the price was right, so I picked it up. Label on it said Mossberg. In doing my homework on the bike, I learned that the company had wanted to make more than guns as the 70s began... They already had a history with bike making when the owner was young...

I found an ad on Craigslist that showed only a partial view of what was a very rusty bicycle for a low low price. I was lucky caller number one and the seller held it for me till the next day when I went there to pick it up. He said he had gotten up to 30 calls on it after I talked to him but...

I recently brought home a pre-war womans rollfast and am working on it's seat this week. It came with it's fair amount of rust to be sure, but now as I'm getting closer to putting it back together and back on the bicycle, I realized it's missing a way to attach the front of the seat to the...

I found this in a ad on Craigslist today and will be meeting the guy who is selling this bike on Monday afternoon.. based on the chainguard and skiptooth chainring style... I think it's a Rollfast, perhaps from 1939? but i'm wondering if any one else might have some insight? what would a good...

I have a guy who has a machine shop close to me. Its been slow business so he decided to try his hand at the bicycle game. He's buying the police auction's bicycles and selling the best ones and parting the less "new" ones out to use where needed. So that leaves him still with some bikes that...

In the months since I last posted anything, predictability on what interest if any would be generated when I had finished a bicycle and prepared to release it back into the wild was a thing of the distant past. It would seemingly take minutes to find a buyer some weeks during the summer for many...

Ocean Pacific. I grew up with it and Birdwell Beach Britches the surf wear of choice for us local at "the Wedge" every day, every season. It was sad to see Birdwell fade away and OP get sucked dry by the corporate beast when it was bought out and sold nationally. They truly don't make em like...

I have had the Electra for a while now, but it's been hanging around up on the wall for the past 6 months. The last bikes I was working on turned sour when one of the got stolen from the garage, leaving me with a bad taste. Didn't find anything interesting enough to work on at the usual spots...

While off on a tangent with the last couple of bikes I did. This one came along. Same brand, the Realm, but different all together. While the other ones screamed cruiser.. this one yelled a different tune. still sorting the neck out... I'll need some handy lathe work i think. but...

In Southern California when it rains, it always is unexpected. Drought? but it rain's once a month on the morning after I wash the car.... Such is the case with this "the Realm" beach cruiser. I went from seeing one on this site to finding one for sale on craigslist. Got lucky caller number...

I know there have been a few people who have posted their "the Realm" cruisers here but there really isn't much info about these bikes available online. I am starting this post to display my last encounter with one of these bikes and also to attempt to list some information to the brand here...

I got a phone call and it was somebody who had gotten my number after he found my ad for the diamondback della cruz 1.0 http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/deja-vu-of-the-2.93261/ on craigslist and had checked out my website. He wanted to buy the bike and he did, but he also came...