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Not the movie. About 12 years ago our local bike coop got a 25 pound bag of used grease. The local printer (large scale) routinely...

The pink paint dries slow. Still tacky after several hours. And it's very dry, warm and windy here. I tried some of the pink glitter...

Roland Team Sport tandem. 6 speed. 26" wheels.

Digging through some old parts bins today, I found a pair of my old racing cranks. Cracked. Best reason to clean your own bikes on a...

sprocket & rims today. I took another look at the sprocket assembly. It is 2 sprockets that were joined with faked rivets. They...

A bit of a disaster. Pink paint? Nope, runny clear with pink sparkles flying all over the place. Some landing on my car 20 feet away...

aluminum rims primed and drying. crank options. I'll stick with the stock black crank. I have other bikes that would like the 175 bmx...

5.33 Inches head tube length on both that I have.

Generally more spokes is stronger than thicker spokes. But all the coaster brake hubs i've had with more than 36 spokes are low grade...

Todays progress. bike dismantled. freewheel, rear hub brake levers, brakes, derailleurs, sprockets into the parts bin. The dual...

Roadmaster Mt Climber with a rose to purple fade paint job. 2 x 5 speed index thumbies. Looks to have very low miles. verifying date...

The first year for the Typhoon was 1962 and that year it had two small straight bars under the top tube. The 1963 model year was the...

Mongoose still sells pretty good bikes. But not at walmart where the vast majority of Mongoose bmx bikes are sold. Those boat anchors...

This kinda looks like it: The frame closely resembles the 1999 Super Goose Jr. similar seat stay to rear dropout shape. chrome fork...

Close up the artist's signature. is this an original of 150 lithoprints? Supposedly the first 150 lithos were hand signed by the...