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Here are a couple of pics of my latest creation. It still has a few minor details that will get taken care of in the future but it rides and looks so good I am calling done. I know they are never really finished. I think this is my favorite bike so far. Everything just seemed to fal into place...

I haven't done much with bikes over hte winter and haven't been on here much either. Now the weather is warming up and I have caught up reading the past post. So this weekend I decided to start a new build. I had a couple of Roadmaster frames that had been damaged and repaired poorly. I grabbed...

Finally got my trike finished (well as finished as a Rat Rod gets). This one was inspired by big AL's 48 Dually. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14003 I loved the idea of using a wagon for a bed and making it look like an old truck. Mine was a very low budget build as most of the parts were free or traded...

I recently found a good deal on some 24'' whitewalls ($5 each) and a set of handle bars for $8. I had a set of 24'' wheels off a newer murray girls bike but the only other 24'' frame I had was a girls monark. I thought about throwing some parts on it and calling it good but then I got to...

Picked this up the other day off craigslist. Schwinn Twinn Deluxe 5 speed tandem with rear drum brake. Here is how my brother and I got it home. Still trying to decide if I want to fix it up with the original parts and try to sell it or if I want to keep it. If I keep it I will...

I got this 24'' Fleet off craigslist earlier this week. The front wheel, seat, and handle bars are not original. I think everything else is correct though. I am thinking about ratting this one since it has a good start already. It looks like I can fit a set of whitewall balloon tires if I...

I found this old skip tooth roadmaster in a friends barn. I ask him about it and he said take if you want it. I had to disassmeble it to get it in the car. The wheels were bent but I had another set of NEW DEPARTURE wheels laying around but they were not skip tooth. I swapped the...

I found this Flying-O frame in a scrap pile at my brother in-laws. He couldn't believe I wanted it and I couldn't believe someone would throw it away. Here is what it looked like when I got it. It was pretty rusty and I thought about just clear coating everything, but I decided to use...

My brother in law told me his land lord had several old bikes so i went to check them out. Turned out to be mostly old 3 speed diamond frames and a couple schwinn 10 speeds. His landlord thought they were worht much more than I did so I didn't get them. There was a 24'' girls spaceliner in great...

I love all the black bikes with red wheels and whitewall tires and finally decided I had to have one. So here it is. The frame is an old Murray I have had laying around for years and actually built several times. It is actually the first cruiser frame I ever built. Here it is before paint...

My brother had an old Columbia frame laying around and I was looking for something to build so I decided to build it for him. I borrowed some parts from another project to decide how to go with it and decided to build a gasser style bike. Here is what I got so far. Here is the frame mocked up...

Several years ago I was unemployed and spent my free time working on the neighorhood kids bikes. Fixing flats and changing bent wheels and such. All the kids kept an eye out for bikes and bike parts for me and donated them in exchange for me keeping their bikes going. One day one of them told me...

I finally got some pics of my mixte. I build this bike shortly after finding this site. I was looking through old post and found some of the earlier pics of Jetro's mixte Massacre and loved it. I couldn't find a mixte frame but I had a few old 27 inch 3 speed boys bikes laying around. I picked...

I got this 24 in monteray from a local thrift store for $3.00 today. I will probably just use it as parts bike. I stopeed by my brother's house on the way home and he gave me a trike rear end. I just need to find a set of cheap wheels for it.

I have been wanting to work on this project for awhile now and finally got started on it today. My brother got an old Western Flyer frame somewhere that someone had tried to spread the bars on the back so it would accept a wider tire. The back bars were pretty bent up and I decided it would be...

I got my old chopper I built from a 20" BMX a few years ago rolling again. This was the first bike I had built in several years. I raked the head tube and extended the forks. I might extend the back in the future but it rides pretty good the way it is just a bit small for an adult. Let me...

I have been checking out this site for a few weeks now and finally joined. I am 37 years old and I live in Aurora, MO. I have loved old bikes since my dad built me my first one when I was a kid. In fact I have never owned a new bike and have built all my bikes from the parts pile. I recently got...