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Wow! I just saw this thread. That is easily the best looking cycle truck I've seen. Without the basket it looks like a cool muscle bike. Great work on the hand painting, too.

Seam welded and "seems" really solid. Was able to fix much of the waviness around the corners by heating up the concave areas with the heat gun and rolling it flat across on a piece of scrap plywood using some leather to keep my hands from burning. Still need to sand and fair it. Also cut out...

Got new tires—literally new limited production Panaracers that just came out (They do several colors every year for only that year and I lucked out on this year's having this blue. USAAF bike has olive green ones from a few years back and I really like them. Guess I'll see how they hold up to an...

That light is really cool!

Awesome idea for the handlebars!

Ahh, those bars are like a good version of what I was thinking when I was pondering a pirate ship bike! The idea was to look like the prow, but I thought it just didn't work. This bar being separated, matches the effect I had wanted, but without being too much and too obvious. Here, it's...

Oof, but that thing is still awesome! I heard at an antique bike show that some of the penny guys back in their day would coast with their legs on top of the handlebars so they'd be ready if the bike threw them forward. No idea if that's true, but the handlebars are low enough on those that it...

Got a little done on the cowl. Now I need to form the cowl extension onto it without melting the reinforcements, drill and weld through. For the spot welds, I used countersunk bores on both sides and used a piece of wood underneath so that when I pushed the ABS weld rod through, it filled the...

Hawk eating a chipmunk on the driveway. Missed the shot of entrails, but I doubt too many wanted to see that.

I've never seen a step through frame look so tough before, but in a cool way, not a trying-too-hard kind of way that's popular with engined vehicles nowadays. Color is great, too. I have a couple of old step through frames and they are pretty floppy (of course, I'm also a lot bigger than the...

Plum Crazy is the Dodge name for the purple color they offered in the late '60s and title of a book I'm working on that features bad guys with a 1970 'Cuda 440 in purple (In Violet is what Plymouth called their purple, but Plum Crazy sounds better, is better remembered, and fits my main...

I have one published, but this is the first going it alone. I've done the cover art and the chapter illustrations, as well. It's the first of a YA/adult series of three books so far. This is the panorama version of the wraparound cover art (most of the boat will get cut off on the back of the...

A little plastic welding to extend the rear fairing, but a lot of things have pushed it aside for the moment. I've got the first of my animal books about to go to an editor, so that's good.

If it has 26" wheels (ISO 559mm), you'll be in luck. It's very likely a 1" headset, so you should be able to find a 26" suspension fork with a 1" steerer, but it will probably have to be used as that's an old standard for a mountain bike (but should be cheap . . . of course, it also won't be all...

Jim really nailed it—it really is largely about art involving bicycles. It's not coincidence that a lot of people here went to art or design school and work in creative trades or have other creative hobbies. It's what drew me here in the first place as I like seeing craftsmanship at a level I...

@Rat Rod, thanks for building this place and maintaining it in such great order. Where so many sites involving internet interactions become troll caves, this place is a rare oasis. I hope everything just keeps getting better for you!

If $10k plastic bikes are where all the money is (which, I'm sure it is, though I'm also sure "all the money" is relative as I don't think anybody running a bike shop is buying private islands) and they have no interest in serving anyone else, then they don't need me and they're not a valuable...

If you set the limit stops right and the shifter you're using indexes the right amount for the spacing between the rings you have, the third position just won't do anything. I would assume the low gear would be the position not used since almost all derailleurs pull to shift up, so while...

I'm sure there's an oddball exception out there, but derailleurs just do whatever the cable tension against the spring tells them to do, so as long as it has enough travel, it doesn't care how many rings it sits over. This goes for friction or index shift since the shifter controls the length of...

I used a cheap imitation Beugler and it leaked all over. Maybe it could have worked for something thick, like un-thinned outdoor latex paint. I ended up going with stripe masking tape. It came out pretty swell, but it made me appreciate the hand-painted double box stripes on the tubing of my...