I'm going to be tuning up my sons Trek 880 for him to take with him to collage. The last time he rode it was close to 2 years ago, When we got it the rapid fire shifter was gummed up with old grease and after spraying it with PB blaster many times we got it shifting ok. It sat for a while, while...
Where to start? So many things to do.
Cut grass
finish 3 flip bikes
organize shop
work on my iron head sportster
fix my truck
get my oldest ready to leave for collage
build drift trike
Tried to blend the perfect amount of rust, chrome, and shiny paint. Even though it's not anything close to what I had in my mind when I started, I couldn't be any happier with how it turned out.
Here is what I started with
Almost got a complete bike so far from different pickers at the event we are at. Going to make this a wall hanger for now. Paid a whole $5 for it, I figure it was worth that for the crash bar on the seat.
Ok so the same guy I got the seat from had some racks and I just had to take a couple home with me. Done some trading and got these (traded 4 nos E250 hub caps for the racks)
We have booths at an event today and since it's slow I decided to go walking checking out other booths. Looking for bike parts mainly. And I came up to a trailer with some motorcycle parts on it and at the back was a pile old bike seats and low and behold here was this crusty goodness. Not bad...