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It'll have three endings ultimately. Like a choose your own adventure book.

Nothing like a super cheesey story line !

The 53 varsity had a super cool spear peaked front fender. Unfortunately the back fender was trashed and the back half of the front one was as well from a bad crash in Sticks last race years ago. They decided to remove both fenders completely , but planned to cut the peaked tip off of the...

That night Charlie pumped some serious iron.... He wanted to be in tip top shape to get this thing up to speed!

Mr Sticks showed Charlie a neat old trick to "flip " the bars and drop the headlight down low. It really made it look alot more racey !

As Mr Sticks explained the ins and outs of bicycle mechanics Charlie tried his best to understand. Slowly the bike was coming apart ...

The next day Charlie showed up about three and swept and mopped the shop and did a few chores for sticks till closing time. Bullets old bolts had been soaking all night and each one gave a fight as they started to disassemble the old schwinn. Charlie was pretty clueless about bikes , tools ...

Yes it does ! Love a flathead ford sir.

We may never know ....hahaa

Exactly! With some of the photos as Charlie sees them in his head of course ! Thanks for the mention

Mr Sticks patted the bare spring seat. "Yeah , Bullets in bad shape kid , but I bet , I just bet , if you showed up a couple hours before I closed and helped me sweep up and did a few things , we could flip that closed sign at 5 and get her back into shape in less than a week .... I think she...

"How can I help ya Charlie ?" ( Sticks knew all the kids names by heart ) , he asked as Charlie walked in. " I need a better bike Mr. Sticks.... Uhh, a fast bike...... I have almost two dollars and my sisters old bike , some comic books , and I'll do any work around the shop you need. Mowing ...

Opting for the more reasonable of the two options Charlie woke up the next day determined , loaded all of his worldly possessions into the basket on the old Starlet bicycle and pushed it , flat tire and all , to Mr Sticks bicycle shop at the edge of the neighborhood. Mr Sticks was a tall...

A fine overnight brain marathon by your hero produced 2 plans ... Plan A. Remove streamers , starlet logos , and basket from big sisters bike , add a racing number and spend the rest of spring break working out with his sand filled kmart weight set . Plan B. Take your bike and all things of...

News travelled fast , even with school out for spring break , around the skate rink and city park of the challenge that had been issued. A few days in , romantic retellings even ncluded that Becca had agreed to marry the winner The reality was that Charlie had 7 days , and was in his room...

In the interest of a shorter read , and getting to the bike building and racing part of the story the key events of the stories dramatic turn are as follows... . Our hero has a flat on his hand me down 24 inch ladies starlet and is walking it home from school . Enter the herioin of the story...

After school Mill Street races were the stuff of legend in this little town.... A challenge , a winner ,a loser , a huge pack of excited onlookers , and by the next day at school , a growing tale. By the time a Mill street race story circulated the school for two days it would grow into an...

Like anyplace at that age , bicycles were everything.... Your transportation , first taste of freedom on wheels , and your identity. The boys used the bikes at every opportunity to impress the girls , show off for each other , and in this little fictional town , to race down Mill Street hill...