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  1. scooter-trasher

    Varsity ATB

    Maybe you should look into a step through frame easier on the nads :)
  2. scooter-trasher

    Varsity ATB

    The 1982 Schwinn Sidewinder, about thirty years after John Finley Scott did it with a Schwinn World tour and the last year for Chicago Schwinns :( " In the late 1970s, Schwinn took note of a subculture that was to become mountain biking growing in Northern California. These kids were taking...
  3. scooter-trasher

    66 Fastback

    Pulling the front tire off tonight , ready to ride tight ropes with the circus and I got it all for a little more than a shifter & overload tube sell for :)
  4. scooter-trasher

    '62 Schwinn Hornet Fork Swap

    yep, Monark used to put a shim under the backside of the bottom bearing cone, on their springer forks to get a bit more rake .
  5. scooter-trasher

    Varsity ATB

    Nice,"Maybe it was John Finley Scott, who was probably the first mountain bike enthusiast in the United States. In 1953 he built what he called a “ Woodsie Bike”, using a Schwinn World diamond frame, balloon tires, flat handlebars, derailleur gears, and cantilever brakes" quote Klunkers .com...
  6. scooter-trasher

    66 Fastback

    I gotta quit buying bikes, just spent too much on tires, tubes and a Sprint derailleur :)
  7. scooter-trasher

    Worksman industrial bikes - $225 (los angeles)

    Picked it up Monday his cell phone was shut off :)
  8. scooter-trasher

    SHOW US YOUR WORKSMAN BICYCLE

    New bike day, Facebook find , I'm almost embarrassed how cheap
  9. scooter-trasher

    Worksman industrial bikes - $225 (los angeles)

    This guy will probably answer my messages now that I have no room, 25 bucks in the D with a three speed coaster brake : https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1242601425876991?surface=product_details
  10. scooter-trasher

    Huffy Liquidator 3-speed -- $50 (Glen Arm, MD)

    I had a blue Wards like that in 1970 that would eat stingrays alive :)
  11. scooter-trasher

    Free Vintage Bikes (Northeast Baltimore, MD)

    I need the parts off that girls CWC, I'd love to give a hundred stripped & shipped :)
  12. scooter-trasher

    Schwinn bikes ( post pics here )

    found a parts donor, but they look so cute together I have some ape hangers , that leaves me only two seatposts and some elbow grease short of a pair of his & hers matching cartoon bikes :)
  13. scooter-trasher

    Schwinn bikes ( post pics here )

    Lets try a pic I didn't take with an Iphone, I guess it's an Iphone thing
  14. scooter-trasher

    Schwinn bikes ( post pics here )

    Grandpa's new bike got wet and shrunk on the way home today, I'm gonna need longer apes :)
  15. scooter-trasher

    Schwinn bikes ( post pics here )

    Sure makes my $20 1968 look nice, even still has nubs on the tires :)
  16. scooter-trasher

    Let's see your Cleveland Welding bicycles!

    maybe this will work, it turned them
  17. scooter-trasher

    Let's see your Cleveland Welding bicycles!

    Still scrubbing, got it from Cleveland, no holes for headbadge, haven't decided on whether to get a three gill tank for it, B series serial number, falls between prewar A series and early post war D series, likely shouldn't have the tank, wont let me post a pic ( too large) how do you make them...
  18. scooter-trasher

    What type of grease does everybody use? Yes I know not everbody uses the same kind.

    I used moly grease in my dana three speed made it seem to have a lot of drag switched to light white lithium much better, really don't see making enough heat to need the moly, except with a downhill clunker coaster break
  19. scooter-trasher

    "For Ape Hangers Only" Club

    Could be a pattern forming 75 typhoon 70s firestone 70s hawthorne rollfast these are next 62 fleet w dana three speed prewar rollfast
  20. scooter-trasher

    Prewar or early post war Ben Hur ID help

    OK thanks, it's definitely got late model bendix hubs & aftermarket fenders, serial # is throwing me off, but until I can see a pic of a post war Bike with the same type seat clamp I'll roll with prewar
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