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The speediest bike I own. An 80's Nishiki Sebring. This bike has an earlier era Kabuki front fork. So I call it the Nibuki. Originally 27" but now 700c. Originally sidepull brakes, now center pull. I put 180mm MTB triple Raceface crank with square taper axle on it that I bought used. This...

Today I took my dogs for a run after the rain and this happened to my new paint job. The first effort to take all that good powdercoat off and get it ready for a new paint job eventually. But what good is a bike if it is not used. Hope you enjoyed my foray into other people painting my bike.

I also tackled the problem of the chain banging on the drop out and the chainstay taking off all the paint. This is a bad picture of a thin sheet of Stainless steel I siliconed onto the inside of the drive dropout to keep the chain from taking the paint off. I'm using a 10 speed cassette and I...

I decided to spend some money on a powder coat and chose a local company to do the honors. I also decided to paint the Profile cranks which had also suffered many indignities over the years to their paint job. I also decided to paint the Velo Orange paint guard even though it is aluminum it...

I've had this Jan 73 26" frame Schwinn Varsity for many years and spray can bombed it years ago when I first built it as an IGH bike with a Shimano 7 speed. Over the years it gradually transformed into a 1x10 derailleur bike. I recently noticed how much damage the chain had done to the...

Love the look of the Motorbike frames. Good work so far.

Your wood wheels work is well done. Do these use tubular tires? I think you nailed the color.

This is a lovely bike. Job well done.

Blue is cool. Great minds think alike. 3 colors of blue or blue like. Spray can job after water bottle holder braze-on's did in the original paint.

I really like the leather fenders. Really nice installation job on the leather.

I wouldn't cut it in a bike shop, too slow. Wow you burned through that disassembly, reassembly process. I too am a very slow builder because I always have a new idea that needs to be mulled over, then slept on, then forgotten, then remembered, slept on again, you get the idea. Good work on...

Sew ups. Dredging more "good" memories from the early 70's. Very fast tires for the time but when you get a flat guess how easy they are to fix. Did I mention sewing skills? As soon as good 700c clinchers came out I changed my rims and tires. Much happier with the result. I was just as...

Garden swing canopy and lawn chair steel. I'm not sure why Joe put the laterals on the first bike but I believe it was to buttress the lower part of the headtube against all the beating the front end takes. When he was making his first bike the heaviest tubing was for touring bikes so probably...

Good save on the freewheel removal.

Several years ago I suffered a prostatitis attack due to the wrong angle on my regular bike seat. I switched over to noseless saddles and have gone through a couple of different Hobson saddles and a Spongy Wonder. The Spiderflex is by far the best of the lot. The holes in the pads spread the...

The Bertin is so cool. Lovely French vibe to it. What size is this bike? Below is my 67cm 1981 Schwinn Sports Tourer and my Jan. 1973 26" Schwinn Varsity. Gravel road supreme. The Varsity is my favorite.

Good looking klunker. Plenty of gearing and brakes. Two things that really help when off road. I'm 6'5" and the seatpost on your bike would be out even further for me. I use really large frames to get away from bent seatposts and broken seatpost tubes on 18"-20" frames. I've had both happen...

What a good looking bike and I see it is already cold where you are.

I love these older lugged frame usually 10-12 speed bikes. Already have great center pull brakes. Looks to be a Simplex type of front derailleur. Not sure how they were. Good hubs but steel rims probably 27" x 1 1/4". Myself I put on riser upright handlebars, aluminum rims and I have a 27"...

Front derailleurs used to have built in cable stops, ie 60's, 70's, and early 80's lower end steel derailleurs and probably some aluminum derailleurs by Suntour, Atom, ect. About the time that 27" wheels were abandoned so were built in cable stop front derailleurs. However millions of bikes...