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I've only experimented with two types of "normal" sized apehanger bars and two banana seats on three different 26" cruiser frames, but here's what I'VE found so far: 1) I prefer the 13.5" tall Sunlite Cruiser D apehanger bars because the grips end up at approximately the same angle as most...

I have apehanger bars on virtually all of my 26" cruiser frames. A "modern" Schwinn Jaguar with 25" tall apehangers -- fun to ride, it got a LOT of looks, but they were a little too tall to be practical for longer rides. I also managed to crack a cheap alloy BMX stem because of the extra...

Sadly, I don't have the skills OR the parts needed to rebuild that fork that only has a couple of seasons of actual use -- I just wanted to keep it going until the day comes when it finally loses a seal. When that happens, it will be time to decide if I want a newer mountain bike with better...

:thumbsup: Hobby stores can be a great "last resort" for small, hard-to-find parts! I searched high and low to try to find some TINY O-rings for my Rock Shox Mag 21 fork -- the ones that fit into the needle valves at the top of each shock for air pressure adjustment. Because the fork is so...

It's a VERY cool rack! :thumbsup: I think everybody's math has been wrong so far, starting with the number of slots -- I count 15, not 13. That means that it needs 16 lengths of each of the three longer pipes, and 16 fittings along each horizontal "row," and 15 very short pipes along each row...

24 hours to go! I'm looking forward to it again this year -- there aren't really any parts that I can think of that I really NEED, but in years past I've bought stuff that I didn't KNOW I needed until I saw it. :21:

Because all of the parts are (allegedly and theoretically, he hopes) worth $976!!! (Edit: $1011 -- I missed the reflector the first time.) Yes, I looked though all of his other auctions. :21: Schwinn Stingray Krate Bike Wheel Set $128.00 (Also available separately: Schwinn Stingray...

Wow, and thanks! :thumbsup: Those are (pardon the pun) very cool -- the raised fin-like areas DO increase the surface area a little on the front, and even more on the rear hub where more cooling is needed because of friction from braking. The next question is probably "does the increased...

I wondered about that too, but as I said, I don't know much about vintage bikes. I was half hoping that Elgin had actually designed something like cooling fins to increase the hubs' surface area -- I don't know if fins would be very effective, but back in those days when innovation and...

Less than two weeks later, there's already someone hoping to sell one on craigslist for a profit! https://columbus.craigslist.org/bik/6030960949.html

I don't know much about Elgins, but this one certainly seems unusual: https://columbus.craigslist.org/bik/6023970429.html

Based on three reviews, ALL posted yesterday, and none of them look like the "reviewers" actually bought the bike. I've pretty much given up on Amazon reviews, between the people who post things just to (attempt to) be funny and the people who just don't know what they're talking about, like...

The past two years there has been a little bit of everything, but if I had to guess I'd say that most of the bikes and parts are a representative sampling of all of the bikes and parts sold over the past 40 or 50 years. Last year I wrote: Since 27" and 700C road bikes, mountain bikes, BMX and...

In the mid-60's and mostly sunny here in central Ohio Saturday and Sunday, so I spent Saturday getting my "muscle bike project" 98% completed and taking it for a couple of test rides! I took this previously modified Raleigh cruiser and installed a vintage 1970's taillight (that was designed to...

And this is what it looks like when someone takes a hacksaw and chops off the top tube for some unknown reason: :doh: I definitely would have tried to buy that if it hadn't been "modified." https://columbus.craigslist.org/bik/5997814068.html

It's the third year for this thing, so does this officially make it an "annual event"? :bigsmile: It's not all "old bikes" -- the bicycles and parts the past two years have been a mixture of old and new, with an emphasis on "what gearheads of all types are cleaning out of their garages and/or...

Mine took so little tweaking that I can turn it back into a tandem -- no frame modifications required! (I wasn't sure that I was going to LIKE a stretch cruiser as much as I do, so I tried not to make any permanent modifications.) But my point wasn't so much about the frame, as all of the...

Definitely looking forward to seeing how this one turns out! :thumbsup: (If it's anything like my "stretch tandem" build, "some mild tweeking" is likely to turn into "even more tweeking" as you go along, but isn't that half the fun of these projects?!)

That was the "before" article (dated Sept 8) -- here's one of the "after" articles (from Sept 12 and 13): http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/09/news/ca-woman-rides-her-bicycle-147-mph-a-new-world-record_420507

It seems like a lot of banana seats are built for 20" bikes, and not really the right size for 26" cruisers. Here's an 18" seat on a Schwinn Classic Four -- note the angle of the sissy bar: Here's the same bike with the same sissy bar and a 21" seat: