I'm 50, and when I found this place I was only into vintage BMX (I've got a ' 79 Mongoose with motomags that I've had since high school and a '76 Yamaha Moto-Bike).
Then I came here... and as a guy way into Rat Rod cars and hot rods/cruisers, it was a natural that I'd change my bike interests.
Now I've got a Dyno Roadster stretch that I've been customizing even though I bought it as a fairly expensive mint original (hey, it was the ONLY one I could find outside of SoCal, and I had to drive 6 hours to get this one!) and a Mongoose 26 x 4" fat-tire Dolomite I bought mainly as an organ donor.
I'm finding myself wanting something '30s-'50s to build as a hot rod/cruiser. I'm a little different in my approach, I don't care about running original parts of any kind, I just want a genuine early cool looking frame, that I'll probably modify. Basically the same as street rod car builders do with real-steel early Ford bodies.
I seem pretty much on my own up here in the Seattle area. When I take my Dyno out on the bike paths, I'm the ONLY one on a cruiser. Everyone else is on a mountain bike or some high tech road bike. I guess I don't really care about actually getting anywhere, all I have to do is keep up with my wife on her Torker trike, and she goes so slow I have trouble balancing. And I keep eying that trike... she doesn't want it cruiser-ed out, but I did put some 24x2.4s on it and a 5-speed hub. Its gonna end up lower and longer at some point, I just won't ask first! Honestly I just like the bikes themselves a lot more that I care about actually riding them.
I do not recommend this joint to any hot rod types who don't need more projects cluttering up their garages and more piles of junk out back.
I don't think it's been a year since I came on here, and I haven't gotten a thing done on my '55 Chevy that's sitting in the garage halfway apart
Then I came here... and as a guy way into Rat Rod cars and hot rods/cruisers, it was a natural that I'd change my bike interests.
Now I've got a Dyno Roadster stretch that I've been customizing even though I bought it as a fairly expensive mint original (hey, it was the ONLY one I could find outside of SoCal, and I had to drive 6 hours to get this one!) and a Mongoose 26 x 4" fat-tire Dolomite I bought mainly as an organ donor.
I'm finding myself wanting something '30s-'50s to build as a hot rod/cruiser. I'm a little different in my approach, I don't care about running original parts of any kind, I just want a genuine early cool looking frame, that I'll probably modify. Basically the same as street rod car builders do with real-steel early Ford bodies.
I seem pretty much on my own up here in the Seattle area. When I take my Dyno out on the bike paths, I'm the ONLY one on a cruiser. Everyone else is on a mountain bike or some high tech road bike. I guess I don't really care about actually getting anywhere, all I have to do is keep up with my wife on her Torker trike, and she goes so slow I have trouble balancing. And I keep eying that trike... she doesn't want it cruiser-ed out, but I did put some 24x2.4s on it and a 5-speed hub. Its gonna end up lower and longer at some point, I just won't ask first! Honestly I just like the bikes themselves a lot more that I care about actually riding them.
I do not recommend this joint to any hot rod types who don't need more projects cluttering up their garages and more piles of junk out back.
I don't think it's been a year since I came on here, and I haven't gotten a thing done on my '55 Chevy that's sitting in the garage halfway apart
