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Well this was unexpected. I responded to this ad thinking it was a Wal-goose. My intention was to rob the rear wheel to use on the Beachcomber, which has been sidelined due to an unfortunate hub shell implosion. But upon closer inspection, this is a pretty interesting specimen of early...

So this was an interesting find. I thought it was a Wal-goose but apparently not. Kinda makes me feel bad to blow it apart for parts, which was my original intention...

I can see this book was discussed here on RRB maybe 10 years ago, but I had never seen it before. Just snagged one at my local Ollie’s Outlet for 5 clams. If you have an Ollie’s near you, hit them up.

Scored this Snap-On tool chest at a yard sale for 25 bucks. No keys. I took the lock apart when I got it home; you can see the lock bars in the top of the box and the lock cylinder in that little Ziploc bag. There's a good locksmith in town; I'm going to try to get a key made. From the...

Anybody besides me have the thought that to the causal observer, this year's Class 1 winner looks like it could be a Class 2 bike while the Class 2 winner looks like it could be a Class 1 bike? There's a profound point there about good aesthetics transcending rules and limitations, but I can't...

The Beachcomber was a yard sale find from about 10 years ago. The older couple who sold it to me said their son loved to ride it, but sadly he had passed. I always wanted to do something cool with it as a tribute. In the intervening years I have thrown parts at it a few times, but none of the...

I threw this up in Fresh Finds when I dragged it home a month or so ago. Today I finally had a few minutes to play with it. Pretty much all I did was put on some less crusty tires and tubes and patch the fender braces together. Other than that, it was just adjust the seat and bars, hose it...

So apparently the bicycle gods have been with me this spring. A couple months ago, a friend of a friend mentioned that he had this old Trek to get rid of, left in a shed by a previous occupant: Said friend retrieved it for me a couple weeks ago, and I've been picking at it. I have rebuilt...

Well, this is my starting point. I picked it up maybe 10 years ago at a yard sale looking like this. The sellers said it had belonged to their son, and he loved to ride it, but sadly he had passed away. I have always wanted to build it up into something cool as a tribute to its former owner...

A few years back, Schwinn rolled out a Predator Team 24 which was essentially a tribute bike to the '83 model. Steel frame instead of chromoly, steel components instead of alloy, so it was a boat anchor, but hey, it looked great anyway. They started out on Amazon around $279 or $299 or so. For...

Back story: I have a great LBS. The back room is a bicycle boneyard with lots of old stuff to pick over, and the owner is usually willing to chat about bikes and local history. I've found a number of parts, frames, and even whole bikes there that made great projects, so the guy knows me when I...

Picked this up at a local antique mall after a friend tipped me off. The one trouble spot is the front wheel. It's like that one spot sat underwater for years. It's actually much less rough than the '59 I found last year and I think it will probably clean up better.

I have a great time at this every year. Didn't get too many pics this time, but you all get the idea. My ride was a Murray Strato Flite that happened to be my last build-off bike. The Honeymooner is a perennial favorite. These folks carry a huge karaoke speaker blasting Christmas music in...

I guess I kinda ran out of time to do a proper photo shoot for this one. Down to the last day, and it's a rainy cruddy day and we have plans to go to a cookout, so all I can do is rip off a few shots against the garage door and the neighbor's brick wall. Oh well, the bike will have to stand on...

Some pics from the annual Simple Transport aircooled VW and bicycle show today in Hagerstown, MD There's always a pretty good BMX turnout, since the show is held at and benefits Hagerstown BMX. There were two amazing customs in particular. One was this Rollfast + sidecar that was fabricated...

Buddy of mine just picked this up. He's into German cars, so once he found out this was a German brand, he was right on it. We are looking for information and history on old Rixe bikes, but are not having much luck. Besides a one-paragraph Wikipedia entry that talks about Rixe motorcycles...

ok so I took apart the tank on my current project and found this. It's marked 1.5V and it works fine on a single AA battery. It also seems to work fine, albeit a little louder and higher pitched, on TWO AA batteries. I am wiring the tank up to run a 3V LED headlight system with those two AA...

Well, I guess I'm in with Spaceliner #3. It's actually a 1964 (correction: 1965) Murray StratoFlite, and I'm pretty stoked about how complete it is. The only definite plan is to clean it up and make it rideable while preserving as much of the patina/character as possible. Other than that, I am...

so for a long time I have wanted to do something like this (all images poached from Instagram): The idea is to take a 24" Speedster frame and hang BMX cruiser parts on it. However, the last couple of 24" Speedster frames I have seen on Fleabay went higher than I was interested in bidding...

Anybody have experience/advice/recommendations on using a headset adapter to install a 1" steer tube fork in a frame with a 1 1/8 head tube? The backstory if you're interested: So I've been wanting to build a 24" BMX-ish/strandie-ish cruiser for some time now. I originally wanted to start with...