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Today I routed off the excess edge filling, removed some pieces of veneer, patched some other veneer, and greased the bottom bracket. Routing off the excess edge filling was the same process as cutting the ragged edges off, lay the pattern on the panel and route the edge. I am trying to save...

Re: BFS rebuild the Alumasled (06/01) Today I shaved off the ragged bottom edges of the aluminum panels and edge filled the new contours. I hope they match and look good when I put the bike back together. First I made a MDF template from my original pattern to use to route off the ragged edge...

Nice bike.... Nice pic!

The Alumasled was built in 2006, its my second aluminum honeycomb composite bike. I built it from scratch, and became my favorite bike to ride. This bike has about 2500 miles on it. Its been used as a canvas for many of my parade and theme rides with the Coaster BC, its been Phantom of the...

Oh you're still a "Young Punk Kid"........ Compared to some of us. Happy Birthday

Re: Wichita's Tandem Night V (photos added) It was a beautiful night with a great turn out of bikes, both tandem and otherwise. Its so cool to see all the tandems and out of the 20 tandems I counted I don't think there were any two that were the same bike. I counted 6 steer from the rear...

Cool lighting is something I really like building. I use LEDs in all my lights. Some of the lights I build used cheap LED flashlights, some are scratch built. I like to use automobile cowl lights and taillights, some I build use other stuff. The Star Chief, uses heavy plastic drinking cups...

I was hangin out with rat bikes at an early age then I got my first bike a J.C. Higgins, and yes it got the rat treatment , flipped handlebars, removed fenders, and even some gray house paint. me working on RRBBO4 bike the Starliner Me and Crazy Mae at our first Tour de Fat Fort Collins a...

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Beware ot the Fat Rat Well Im in. got a couple home projects done, and I need to build a new bike. Heres what Im starting with, most of the parts Ive had around for awhile, except for the blue band 2 speed KB, got it at the Midwest bicycle swapmeet a few weeks ago. Most of the bikes I build...

Hey Mitch,, it was a great time seeing old friends and making new friends , and selling some stuff, too. Its always good to see every body, and to get rid of some stuff, and create happy new memories . Im Sad about the lose of your father, think about the good times, thats what life s all...

The van is loaded, the weather is going to be nice, should be a good time. And Saturday night is a pub crawl, It maybe a little bit cool so wear a jacket, if needed. BE THERE. Not our normal starting point. For more info, see Coastersbicycleclub.com. Some of the stuff I will have there, a...

I thru the idea out on the Coasters web site about doing a ride Saturday night. Start at 7:00 at the Anchor for food and drink then ride west. Backwards from the usual thursday ride, hope to get response. Id like to hang/ride with the out of towners. Lets make it happen!

Ed Roth was the creative inspiration for millions of car crazed kids for many generations. I was one of them. I met him twice. The first time was at the SEMA show in las vagas in the mid 90s, when I was part of the Hot Rod Heritage art show. Roth had his latest build, Beatnik Bandit II...

Love those 2 speed kickbacks. I put them on bike I build for me. They take a little getting use to, but after while it becomes natural, and there great, no more standing up on the pedals to get the bike moving, start in low gear, get it moving then kickback to high and cruize. I got several...

Oh man I want to be there on June 31 for that ride, BUT I gotta work that night. BUT, shouldn't that really be the Coasters BC halloween ride, you know it would be scary. haha.

My Mustang. Its a P51 Mustang sculpture titled "Mustang Pilots License". A piece I did in 2003 for a public art project celabrating 100 years of flight, where artist, about 33 artist, started with big ( about 7 foot by 7 foot) generic foam airplanes. Each artist did what they do, some just...

Why heck yes... Id rat out a Bluebird. I don't build anything back to original.... cause original has already been done and theres others just like it .... I what things to be one of a kind original.

Here is my Huffman built Western Flyer, built around 1935. This was my RRBBO3 bike, the "Rust Rat". As I found out at that time, this is the front end of a Twin-Flex.

I found RRB while looking at aka_locojoe's web site that shows his bike adventures and the Coasters BC ( not long after this he build the Coasterbicycleclub.com web site ) that I was a part of. He had a link to RRB, and I liked it, I then lurked for about a year ( Im kinda shy ), then joined...