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My favorite time of the year is at hand. I've done many long-ish rides along country trails in Autumn, including some day trips that had me driving 3.5+ hours into the mountains of WV just for a 7 or 8 mile ride around a cranberry bog, on the bike shown in this image. I no longer have this bike...

I'm pretty certain I've read that some of you ride daily. If so, are they long-ish (10+ miles) or shorter? When I retired not quite 2 years ago, I came out of the gate fast, riding as much as 6 days a week. Though I was enjoying myself, it was hard to sustain that pace. Eventually I dropped off...

Not sure the best place to put this, because it's not a vintage build, but my frame arrived just a short while ago. I'm swapping a lot of parts from my older Big Red frame, and as you've read, building up a new front wheel. I might end up building a new rear wheel, too. For now I'll be riding it...

Some of you may recall I was smitten by the camelback design of a Budnitz frame on eBay, and after several days of see-sawing back and forth, decided to buy the frame. My plan was to strip the heavy steel frame I've called Big Red and move all the parts over to the new frame. The best laid...

Anyone have an idea where I might find a frame for a Trek Multitrack 700 or 720, 20" unisex (not the men's version)? I've been thinking of building up a 700c step through bike, and would prefer a Trek frame if I can find one.

Question for you gurus: do you know if there are any older step through frames that will accept 700c tires in the 45-50mm range? In searching, I see a lot of 26" frames, and the 700c frames I do see are road frames. Specialized and Priority both have a couple of modern step through bikes in that...

My wife has been asking questions about my latest build. I thought she might be annoyed with me, until I said "I'm planning to sell my white bike to make room for the newest build." Her: "You're planning to sell the white bike? Isn't it pretty lightweight?" Me: "Not as light as you'd think for...

Although this isn't truly vintage, it's likely as vintage as I'm going to get. It's my 4th bike build, and I do have a lot of fun rebuilding frames into something rideable. I'm building it as a single speed, and one of the pics shows my Rennen Rollenlager chain tensioner that came this morning...

The big white toy delivery truck dropped off my steel 1999 Specialized Crossroads Sport frame this morning. It just needs a good cleaning, but it's in fine shape. Not so good is that the rear won't hold the fat 700x50 tires my other hybrid frame holds. Not even close. Oops. I knew the frame was...

I've been mulling over building a SS klunker from an old frame. I know 26" was the most prevalent size for such bikes, but were there ever any made with larger diameter wheels? I saw on another thread here where someone had installed 27.5" wheels on an old Phantom frame. Will any of the old...

Hello all. First post here, although I've posted in the FB group. I've kinda caught the bike building bug over the past few years. First was a fat bike I threw together using an old Mongoose Beast frame and parts from here and there. Rode it for a few years, gave it away, and built another bike...