Recent content by Velostigmat

I soaked my new-used chain overnight and found that a couple links are broken on one side and a couple others are starting to crack. Do I throw it out or try to salvage it? Thanks!

And way to your friend for manipulating the color to look 1970s. Excellent.

To B607: Take the logical, easy, and inexpensive way out when I can do it senselessly, expensive and hard? Nevvah! To Tommy: I already collect antique cars, film cameras, and 1930s refrigerators. And I already have my great-grandmas dishes. Another hobby won't kill me, unless its a high-wheeler.

Hi guys, Sensor just shamed me into saying who I am... so my name is Chris, I'm 28, and call Huntington Beach California home. I work as a freelance teacher and like all kinds of old and historical stuff like 19th and 20th century social history and vintage technology. I've had a model T Ford...

Alright Sensor, I'll introduce myself just to make you happy dude. (Insert laugh and sardonic smile.) And yes, I love nostalgic.net, its like bike pornography. It also gives me ideas to steal, er, I mean borrow when it comes time to paint mine.

Oh no no! This baby's mine. :lol:

Hi guys, I'm new. My name's Chris and I just bought a Hawthorne Flyer frame and fenders off of ebay. All I know so far is that its a motorbike frame, and that it would have had 28 inch wheels. Poking around on here and on the Cabe I learned that 1933 was the last year that these were made in 28...