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Finally got time to smooth with oooo steel wool and buff with scratch out. Almost there with the wet sanding. The shifter needs a silver respray/installation, rear wheel needs to get pulled back, those will be done soon...might be able to ride tomorrow. The chainguard needs clear...

Bikes as seen falling off the conveyors in Fred Claus...yeah Bratz dolls are creepy...they look like their faces are constantly being sucked into a black hole where their empathy for other humans should reside. I commented on both bratz and Fred Claus? I must be bored at home with a corona mask...

I live in the San Diego with about the worst energy and transportation costs in the nation. We also have one of the highest ozone levels in the country. Go team. Those are all related because it is almost impossible to exist here without a car. So because we have to drive more we pay more for...

Years back I was researching doing electric conversions on old Volvos and at the time they had just developed flexible batteries that can be cut & punctured without catching fire but to my knowledge they still have not been able to scale up production. Tech at the time meant any conversion meant...

Thanks! Buffing it soon. I’m glad I did all the paint testing first. The first base coat red metalspecks was wrong. So glad I went with duplicolor wheel silver, then clear, then red metal cast color, then clear, clear, clear. I had great painting temps till this last clear which I will wet sand...

Great work! The 1st one is fine but the last 3 have pixilated.

Awesome deal! Always wanted one. Paint it or leave as is?

Like with hybrid cars e stuff looks futuristic plastic. The series 1 looked pretty gangly too. But the point is to stand out and gain visibility in a cookie cutter e bike market where every component currently looks sourced from the same 5 places. Their stuff only fits their bike. I don’t fit...

Nothing beats a deck of cards and closepins. It means a childhood gang of gamblers has arrived.

1966 Bendix Torpedo. And by the coaster break, the first battle scar... Shifter...few options. Trigger, twist or... ...which due to some unfortunate knob design choices looks completely phallic. Tried stock, painted or knob turned around to try to make it look less so and it still completely...

Can’t buff it yet...can’t put the decals on...can’t put the shifter on...can’t wait to see it either. The rear wheel is too far to the right & rubs on the fender a bit. Went with silver for the fork. Same silver is below all that red metalcast. Yup, swapped the repop Grape front wheel and...

Rattle Kandy Red is best done in a controlled environment with adequate lighting...nope and nope. Proud of what I’ve done but man...patient cheapskates apply only. Light is the biggie and my spray window has been small. It looks good but it has been a slow process. The trick to making metal cast...

Red rims & whitewalls is perfect. Big & little hot rod or the same tire? That seat looks like it was made for this bike. You totally need a boombox mounted on the bars. Rad!

Is that what I think it is? Looks nice and dangerous. Does it work? If yes how do I get like 12?

Chainguard is crazed...sanded back too far after removing plant dust so I sprayed red to touch up thinking it would be fine but they were not yet ready to be pals. The damage was already done, I was super calm...what’s one more crisis? Showed my Dad pics and he told me as a kid he had one all...

POP! Sprayed 2 coats of rust oleum clear for wheels. I’d just sprayed the whole bike and fender then went inside to get another can...and my camera. Got outside to find my wife raking the dirt and kicking up dust out there. Never seen her rake before and she picks that moment. Had to remove...

Now I want to concoct an adjustable height sissy bar that slides up and down on the thinner front truss. The tubing for the truss and sissy bar are the same diameter. I need to find clamps like this one with a rubber grommet that will allow it to slide. Spare sissy bar for people with seriously...

Sweet! Now you gotta make a shifter out of a Floyd Rose whammy bar!