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Those look badass! Great job!

A friends bike, got our stem on it....

Twice a year we piggyback our Tuesday bmx ride with the Tuesday nearest the winter and summer solstice. We ride up and over the ridge of the Santa Monica mountains, in the San Fernando valley, "LA adjacent" fooey. You can see the ocean if you look, sometimes we see druids! We did not see any...

As seen on TV....

Yeah we can go down the rabbit hole on materiel, I figure Schwinn made millions of bikes out of the mild stuff, it will (and has) worked for me.

Thanks! they are high ten or "mild" steel, I'm not sure what is what there but I've made a lot of bike out of the stuff and they seem to hold up fine. I cold bend my loops on a Di Arco style tubing bender. Bends 4130 too.

I over shot on the bender and there you go.

copied an "eletro-forged" Schwinn so you know-Rad angles!

My goal with these was to get some more much needed practice, both welding, using lathe and mill and to miter tubes, all need some work. also I wanted to use up my stock of metal as it was getting rusty. The bikes took form with the "slant back" loop tail as sort of a happy accident, I scrapped...

Some post race pics..it was brutal but rad as always!

180 mm cranks. Tube set is paper thin on these rigs-Watch out!

Repaint after a little frame repair, got rid of all the teal anno, looks good. Got it muddy already of course!

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