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Picked up a 24 inch boys hawthorne snow flake shaped skip tooth drive scout long spring saddle ball end coke bottle grips and steel clad wood wheels the serial number is on the bb in two lines rear facing drop outs with adjusting screws pics posted tomorrow until then any guesses on age?

Saturday August 18 at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds Davenport Iowa. Starts at 8 am. Rat rod cars trucks a few bikes even. Pinstripers on site working and doing panel jams through out the day. Come check it out if you can. I will probably have "green with envy" there to get some stripes. I...

Well here is my first ever Rat Rod Bikes Build Off entry. Hope you enjoy..... Break down of the bike is as follows: Frame 1955 24in boys Huffy covered in green paint but probably originally a white bicycle Fenders 1946 24in girls Hawthorne Originally white painted but now a beautiful patina'd...

GREEN WITH ENVY Yep Here we go....I am going to attempt to enter and finish a bike with less than one week till the end of the build off. King fish, if you are watching please give any pointers you can, since beerrun was a one month build if I recall last year correctly. Of course I do not...

I picked up a 20" girls montgomery wards bike yesterday thinking of a cool flip project for it. I have pictures that I can post but they will have to wait (need sleep first). a couple questions I have- Does anyone have a wards catalog link I can check out? The rear hub is a mexican bendix...

not sure where this should be placed but I found it while trying to get more info on some of my bikes I found it to hold some interesting info http://www.socalbicycles.com/BikeHistory.htm So anyway if the mods can place this where they think it should be that would be great or if not of use...

This bike has alot of reasons to envy other bikes.... Chrome flaking off goose neck and chainring... chain rusted to the point of being one continuous loop of steel.... tires were flat as pancakes and cracked worse than an egg dropped from a twenty story building... seat holyer than swiss...

anyone have any info on this bike? I picked it up last summer and it was pretty much complete. I aired up the tires installed a coaster brake strap and oiled the chain and it was ridable. I removed the wire basket from the front because it is probably the cause for the left reflector being...

Will they work with any sprocket? (Will they fit on a skip tooth sprocket more importantly) Is an 88 link half link chain the same length as a regular 88 link chain or is it half the length? Is there any other differences between regular chain vs halflink vs skiptooth?

I decided to ride my hiawatha to my lbs to pick up a shift chain for the dayton and on the way back I noticed a couple of things. 1) the road bike guys look at me like I am nuts 2) the spandex wearing road bike guys are jerks (passed a mom with 3 kids close by her and didn't say a word when...

Well its official.... My girlfriend graduated tonight with an Associates degree in Criminal Justice. Not only did she get her degree but she did it with a 3.94 GPA that means she got to wear the gold tassles and was Summa Cum Laude.

I just bought what was thought to be a Sturmey Archer 3speed. However, after doing some cleaning to find out exactly what model of SA3, I find that its not an SA3! Instead it says J.C. Higgins 50320 3 SPEED (small 6) Any help from the peanut gallery is greatly appreciated will post pics...

Neighbor put out this Murray Wild Style 10 speed MTB for trash pick up today. Garbage men didn't take it so I figured I could repurpose some of the parts for the projects and maybe toss some out to y'all. I like the custom front tire! :lol:

Does anyone know where I can get tires for a 590mm wheel? I want either a white wall or a solid colored tire but not sollid black. My issue is that I can't find them in a 2 inch wide tread. Any help would be great!

What's on your tailgating menu at home? And who's your team for the big game? Swedish meatballs, bbq lil smokies, and chili cheese dip Go STEELERS! (still sad my Bears lost)

I picked up this frame at a motorcycle swap meet this past summer. I thought it looked like my Hiawatha, which I wanted to alter, but everyone was telling me to leave the Hiawatha the way it was.So here is my chance to build what I want and how I want. The frame looks solid but covered in red...

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The other day my truck was being worked on and I had 20 minutes to pick it up before the shop closed and I could not walk there in that 20 min time frame so I thought what the heck I can ride there in about 10 mins. and its mostly downhill so it won't be that bad on my single speed Hiawatha...

Is there a link or a page that shows where all the members are at? or can you search for members by city/state/country?

Can anyone help me out? Alot of my friends told me to leave my first Gamble's Hiawatha alone cuz the look and patina was perfect. However I still wanted to "rat rod" a bike and low and behold while buying new white walls for the Gamble's I ran across what looked like another Hiawatha. The guy...