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Got more mockups to share! I decided to play around with this Murray 3-speed road bike and see if I could build it into something I like. Admittedly, I'm not a big fan of these skinny-wheel road bikes as they just feel kind of generic to me, but I've a few customs built out of these bikes that...

Sorry to hear that happened to you. I heard about that outage all over social media last week. Seemed like what everyone expected Y2K to be. Too bad you weren't flying Southwest when it happened. I heard they were the only ones unaffected by the Crowdstrike outage due to their system running on...

It's always impressive to see you work your magic on bikes, and this one is nothing short of incredible! I wouldn't even know where to start on those fenders, much less HOW to repair them as well as you have. Looking forward to seeing you hop along across the finish line with this one!

Gosh, I haven't seen the commercial for those since I was a kid!

As nice as my last mockup on the X-53 looked, I really wanted another klunker to ride out on the gravel trails. I also wanted to make use of as many black-painted parts I had on hand as possible, and I had a few more ideas to achieve both of those goals. I took advantage of the cooler weather...

As nice as those first mockups turned out, I still had a few more ideas I wanted to explore on my X-53 yesterday. I wanted to see how the bike would look with white accents, so I threw on a white seat and some Wal-Mart whitewalls. I figured I could make a hot rod-styled klunker, but those...

I can't help but agree with you there. I've seen more than a few black cantilevers that looked downright slick. I was actually just thinking of seeing what this Schwinn would like like dressed in all black, "murdered out" like some cars I've seen. It would admittedly look better with original...

After mocking up another (less desirable) bike of mine as a klunker, I decided to see if I could make a good klunker out of a frame I actually like: my X-53 frame I got over a year ago for $15. It already has some good patina on it, and I have plenty of parts that are a close enough match to it...

I hate to say it, but I'm falling out of love with this Schwinn frame. As I mentioned before, Schwinn's cantilever frames just aren't the most visually appealing for me, and every time I build this frame up, I find myself wondering if my ideas and parts would look better on a bike I already...

I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to mention that! 🤣 Yeah, when Dad said he wanted to wrap the 2 bathroom toilets to look like that, we all thought he was nuts, but it turned out that he was onto something, because ever since the shop opened almost 2 years ago, one of the biggest...

While I was down in Texas last month pet-sitting for my brother and sister-in-law, I sketched up a few ideas for some more bikes I'd like to build. Among the ideas I came up with was taking a JC Higgins Colorflow frame I bought back in April and turning it into a BMX-style "street bomber."...

Okay, these past couple of weeks were a mess. I'll spare the details, but long story short: I'm just glad it's over now. Also, I'm going to have a niece! On to the here and now: I'm... well, indecisive about whether or not I want to try and finish Schwindecisive before the Build Off deadline...

That thing looks so good with those yellow-lettered Maxxis tires.

I know what you mean about losing progress to the heat. It hasn't gotten as hot here in DFW or back home in Tulsa, but I just can't handle the heat like I used to. I might even have to drop out of the Build Off myself, or switch to a project that I can work on in smaller doses during the...

There are a few trails around Tulsa, but not many of them have a ton of shade, unless it's the mountain bike trails. I mostly just ride around my neighborhood when I want to ride, or at one of my old college campuses when I want something different.

Put a few more laps on Shoestring between yesterday and today. I went out to the same little island I was at before, only this time I brought my Nikon and telephoto lens to practice shooting photos of nature and airplanes. I'll have to wait until I get home to edit and share those photos, but I...

I agree. Let's you see the whole bike clearly.

I like the shot with the building in the background, but it feels like the building is outshining the bike. Your latest version of the green door shot looks perfect, I think. All the focus is on the bike itself, and it POPS against the green. On the other shots, it just sort of feels like the...

I agree. I like how most of the red is on the bike in the 4th Pic, but it was cropped a bit more than I'd prefer. I still feel like there might be a way to surround the bike with more of the green wall, especially with zooming in from a distance, but 5 is still a decent shot too. And like others...