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Found on the used rack at a LBS, priced at the value of its leather seat. Made in West Germany. Woulda bought it for the deco details alone, but also proved to be an effortlessly zippy ride. Looks like every other Futuramic on this forum can be found in this thread.

Recent questions here and there about shipping bikes via Amtrak. A general thread here for not-obvious approaches. Amtrak Express Shipping requires the bike partially disassembled and boxed following the rules of bicycles as checked baggage. The rules are: pedals removed, handlebars loose and...

The statistics page is especially interesting.

No headbadge, make and model markings covered by a bad paint job sometime before a 1970 University of Illinois registration sticker was applied. Scrapes revealing original paint was bright blue. 26x1.75 tires, peaked fenders. Serial # C86728, stamped below the crank. Tentatively identifying...

I figure, long ago, someone in East LA or Chicago decided their wheels would look supercool with twice as many spokes, but no one was manufacturing the hubs or rims, so they had to make their own. The hub flange needs to be larger diameter to support more holes, so this isn't much to imagine...

Built by Huffy with a Bendix single speed coaster brake. Done absolutely nothing with it yet. Needs new tires, slight wheel adjustments, otherwise okay mechanically. Silkscreened details enough intact for repaint reference, but only artifacts of the headtube and seatpost decals.

Greetings from Central Illinois. My introductory post, but seems most appropriately placed in the HOW TO department. The '89 Schwinn Cruiser on which it's seen was stolen this weekend, but here's the solar-rechargeable bicycle stereo I designed and constructed. (Took very little road testing...