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Paul took care of me yesterday. He ran across a ladies Schwinn 4 on CL over on his side of town and asked if I wanted to buy it. The price was reasonable so I told him yes, definately. So he drove over and made the deal for me - and even sent some pictures of the bike today. My plan is to...

My personal preference is bailing wire. :D I have wired lots of things together on my street rods. One time the exhaust pipe coming out of my headers rusted out and dropped off just as I left Houston. I wired the sucker back on and sinched it up to the hole in the header and drove it up to...

Re: trikes pictures of them The tandem trike looks good. It should be a fun ride - and you can just stop peddling when you get tired and sit for a while. Are you gonna throw on some pegs for the person in back to rest their feet on since it looks like you intend to have the driver do all of...

The bike looks good. Is the seat on it pretty comfortable? Looks like it might even have a little spring to it from flexing but maybe it's pretty stiff.

The red car's name in the movie "Cars" was Lightning McQueen. So that may be where he came up with the name of Lightning since it was a red bike. Sounds like any of the bunch would be good build off candidates.

SJ, thanks for the info and the link. It was really interesting to see the ad. Not too crazy about the red tires, though. :lol: :lol: Looks like they were a Murray family. I'm not sure who made the Sky Queen, but probably Murray too. :D

Re: Uncle Shrink's Mini Me (the mini clone) . Paul got busy again today and finished up the paint and put the mini clone together. So here's a few shots of the finished product. Once I get back over to his place we'll take some riding pictures or maybe a video. Hummm, two good sized...

Okay, now you are getting technical on me. :lol: :lol: Could be paint - could be anodized. I guess if the parts are steel then it would be some type of paint or coating since you can't anodize steel.

. Yeah, it reminded me a lot of the chrome Diamondback BMX bike that Steve ran across a while back. Too bad it didn't have a diamond shaped opening in that front frame brace! :D The other nice thing is that it's probably in the best shape of all 4 of the bikes. The chrome on the frame is...

. My neighbor across the street watched me working on bikes in my garage so one day last summer he walked over and told me that he had some old bikes in his attic that he needed to get down and see if they were worth anything - or just give to me. So last weekend while the weather was cool he...

Re: Uncle Shrink's Mini Me (the mini clone) . Paint work has begun on the mini clone. The frame is now black and the front triple tree went from red to silver.

Re: Uncle Shrink's Mini Me (the mini clone) - The hardest part was getting the Schwinn Stingray Chopper bike away from my grandson. He put up quite a fight and he was laying there crying like a baby when I tossed it into the back of my Trailblazer and took off. Hey, we needed the front...

Re: Uncle Shrink's Mini Me As you can imagine, neither of us had a lot of extra 20" bike parts laying around. So blackwalls was the best we could come up with. :lol: Once the crank and chain are in place and the paint job is done it will look like mini me for sure.

Paul decided that the kid bike build off was right up his alley. No limitations on frame mods. So I rounded up some parts and headed over to his house today to see what he could put together. I brought the remnants of a BMX bike that I found in the neighborhood a few months ago, a coaster...

I don't have any shots of me on the bike, but maybe if I get a chance I will try taking one or two. The rain set in here in south Texas on Friday so getting out to take pictures may be hard right now. Actually, though, you can check out this link to the first clone - which is the same bike -...

Chad, I misread your question before. I thought you were wanting to swap hubs on a wheel - to swap it from a multi speed hub to a single speed coaster brake hub. I see now that you are just talking about getting rid of the cassette or rear gears on a multi speed and going with a single speed...

I didn't mention it in that last post, but I think if you look on the tire itself, where it says the size - 26 x 1 3/8, you will also see the mm equivalent of each size. So next to the 26 you will see 590 or 559 or whatever. So that may help too - if you know the narrow rim is 590mm - since...

Here is the info from the Niagara Cycle web site for a 26 x 1 3/8" tire 26" x 1-3/8" Wire Bead Black Wall (white walls are pictured) ISO diameter 590mm *Note: This is NOT the same diameter as a decimal tire size, such as 26" x 1.25, or a Schwinn S-6 1 3/8" tire* I think it's the 590mm wheel...

From what the bike parts places say in their ads, you can't swap fractional tires (1 3/8) for decimal tires (1.75). I guess they all have a metric size in addition to the inch size and I think those have to have the same diameter size to fit the rim correctly. Changing hubs on rims can...

I have to have my Chief for a different click! :D My Strumey-Archer rear end on the new clone makes one clicking sound when I ride it and the Chief with the Nexus rear end on it makes a different clicking sound. So depending on what type of click I want, that's the one I roll out to ride...