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Specialized RockHopper FS. aluminum frame. Purchased for $40 about 20 years ago. Had to walk it home as it had 2 flats. Replaced bb, hub cones, grips, shifters, brake levers, chain, tires, tubes, stem, seat. Some $200 more. Been a great all purpose bike. Commuter for years. Taken on...

1989 Fuji Ace Suntour Blaze derailleurs, Suntour Edge crank. needs shift cables. Mongoose seat. Air.

June 15 intake in alpha order Eastern Trail Digger bmx. rear wheel isn't oem on this bike but it is an Eastern Nitrous. 14mm axle. 9 tooth cog. "Cro mo down tube" I take that to mean the rest of the frame is not. MSRP $449 Customers Firestone Pilot. Highly customized. copper wire lacing...

Started tuning this bike up and riding it. BB repacked as the factory grease had seized up after 47 years. Very little wear. First ride, flat tire. chain not running smooth. Chain totally worn out. 1/4" extra length in just 12 inches. new chain installed. The front derailleur broke on the...

SCHWINN dirt. I spotted this when I took the head badge off a 1982 World. Who knows what roads it traveled, potholes it hit or how many times it got rained on. Who knows what joy the owner had flying down hills. Who knows the toils and sweat of mountain climbs. Who knows the drudgery of a...

Wheels done for the first Murray Squirt. Aluminum rims are from some boxmart mtb. Painted white. White wall tires. Kept the original Wald front hub with the 3/16" axle that fits. Rear hub is a coaster. I replaced the axle with a much longer axle to match up to the 135mm spacing on the...

Nice edits and thread name change. I'll keep posting racks I see. Here is a pair that were laying on the ground for 9 months. I was surprised they weren't stolen for scrap metal. Or maybe they were. Hum were they black before? Planted at a bike path rest area that has a picnic shelter...

Here is a relatively cheap bike rack. Stainless tube, bent, bottom flanges welded on for bolting to the concrete. Right in front of a medical clinic. I've seen the same bike there my last 3 visits so it must be an employee. There is a security guard station inside but not in direct view of the...

All that shiny chrome is about 50 years newer than the bike. If you want originality, you won't find shiny chrome parts from the 1930s.

I'd lose the knobby mountain bike tire(s). Just so wrong on a cruiser.

The old school racks where you put a wheel in a slot are a thing of the past. Countless wheels were trashed by drunken frat boys jumping on them to turn the wheels into potato chips. These modern racks makes wrecking wheels quite a bit harder. Initially I disliked the new styles until I...

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Started on one of the Murray Squirts today. Full dismantle. Ground off the cable stops. Masked off the decals and touched up with brush on Rustoleum. Perfect color match. BB & HS repacked. Ground off the rivets holding the 3 sprockets and guard together. This is getting a coaster brake...

Gimmick for those that need to know what gear number they are in. My guess is 90% of these are broken.

I found a page for the JC Penneys Ultralight 27 in the 1979 spring summer catalog. List price $159. It might have been in other years but not all the catalogs are on line yet. "Minimum leg length of 34 1/2" so yeah, only 1 frame size.

Anyone have this bike?

in alpha order Free Spirit LeGrande cheap Sears mountain bike 24" wheels. Huffy. This was a donation, then the donor sent someone to get it. That person returned it about 7 hours later wanting lights, locks and an electric motor. Yah, sure. Hyper Commute. low end walmart bike with all...

1977 Sekai GT Deluxe 2700 A bike boom bike. Sekai was a Seattle based importer by Japanese-Americans started in the late 1960s. According to t-mar, Sekai got their bikes from 8 different Japanese bike makers. Sold to Norco in 1983. Ended in 1990. This one has some nice parts. "Tange Double...

Me too. My wife walks there 50x a day going to feed the birds, hang laundry, take stuff to the compost bin, yard work, etc. Most tree damage is during high winds or storms. This was due to a wet spring that got the tree growing like mad, water for the huge ant colony chewing it out from the...

TIMBER! about 2 hours ago a huge tree branch broke off and landed on my van and the ever growing family of Varsities. At least 3 injured. One fork totaled. 2 seats bent over sideways at 90 degrees. Won't know the full fatality count until the tree branch is removed. Window smashed out of the...