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Did some more boring stuff today. Decided I like these older wheels without the plastic better So it was time for the tear down, clean...

Let the wife pick the paint, she picked what she thought was sparkly black it’s very sparkly clear coat 😂over black it looks awesome and...

A while back a friend at the LBS contacted me about a vintage Raleigh that was in for refurbishing. He didn’t want to deal with the...

Thanks! It's a 1954 Dodge milk truck Dad and I got out of a salvage yard in Great Bend, Kansas almost 10 years ago. It's sitting on a...

Man did the weather go crazy here these past 2 days. Between yesterday and today, we got 7 inches of snow! Before I spent most of the...

That bread truck is awesome! Riding in the snow is fun. Belle still looks really cool! (no pun intended)

Thanks dude. It's not ideal, being a shifter cable, it Won't be as strong as a brake cable. But it works for now, and let's me keep...

Nice work on the cable mod

Stripped off all the old decals. I was a bit worried about the chrome on the fork, seems to be clear coated, and got roughed up by the...

Cut off the old cable in the gyro, drill a new hole, then dropped in an old shifter cable. Not ideal, but will get me going until I get...

I take it you will use a regular chain and just have the chainwheel look like a skip tooth? I did the cog and the chain wheel on the...

So I decided to enter the ORBO competition this year. I already started on the frame a while ago. Its my learning project: Learning to...

As the bike is going to be my mud bomber, I'm doing without gears and opting for disc brakes. They simply work better when it gets...

The wheels are relaced and ready to go for truing at the shop. These both use the same 258mm spokes, even though the 27.5 rim is larger...