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Well, I guess we're not going to learn any more about the "epoxy tank" idea any time soon. :( In the meantime, I came up with a modern, do-it-yourself version of the classic fork-mounted "bullet headlight." I love the looks of the big, classic bullet lights, but I also like to see where I'm...

Thanks, guys! I've wondered about turning the stem around backwards as well, but couldn't find many cases of other people actually doing it. Since it's a short BMX stem, and since it's only going to move the bars back about two inches, I don't think that it would make the bike handle THAT much...

Despite thinking that I was finished with this project bike, I just came up with an idea for a fork-mounted headlight bracket for it: ...so I rode it about 9 miles today, including a trip to the hardware store. The bracket will (in theory) hold and partially cover the barrel of a 200 lumen...

Okay, not "riding pictures" per se, but you can see how I fit on the frame: The seatpost "height" is about perfect for me at full leg extension, but it might be a bit far for people with shorter legs. The only thing I would change about the riding position is that I wish the standard...

Thanks -- I should have taken a close-up of the knob! I mentioned the wooden knob source in my "tandem" thread, but after looking high and low I finally found these almost-spherical "wooden doll heads" at one of the big national craft stores. They come in a wide range of sizes, from 1" to almost...

I really didn't take a lot of pictures when I started this project, because "who really wants to see a build thread on a modern cruiser from Walmart?" (I actually bought it from craigslist, but I'm sure the previous owner got it at a big box store somewhere when it was new.) When I FIRST got...

Okay -- I think this build is 99% finished! :113: Someday when I'm thinking about it, I need to pull the shifters off the dowel rod, pull the dowel rod out of the stem, and paint it black. On the other hand, there's only about 3/16" of bare wood showing on either side of the shifter, and unless...

Shortly after I joined this forum I picked up a gently used 2008 Schwinn Jaguar on craigslist for $40. Since then I've slowly spent at least $200 or $300 on parts to customize it and probably more, and some of those parts didn't work out as planned so they went on other bikes or are just sitting...

Twenty or twenty-five years ago one of the mountain bike magazines I subscribed to had a "custom paint contest" and many of the winners were what you'd probably expect from the early '90's, like wild neon fades similar to what Klein was doing at their factory. The one that stood out from the...

When I first learned about this forum, I had two mountain bikes and an old touring bike gathering dust in my garage. Now I have two mountain bikes that I'm riding again, an old touring bike that's still gathering dust, three bikes I've built up from their original craigslist conditions that...

On which bike(s)? I can't tell much from the only picture I've seen of that Huffy so far, but I suspect you might be right about that one too! You ARE right that it WOULD be hard to do with the vertical drop-outs on my bike, and I'm already having enough trouble with the extra drive-train...

There's definitely no such thing as a "best all-around trail bike" -- there are way too many variables, which is why there are thousands of different mountain bikes out there in a wide range of prices. (Until recently, most big companies made ten or twenty styles of mountain bikes every year and...

Thanks! It's a Titan Cycle Products "Mountain High Country Road" -- they're apparently not all that common, but there's a frame on eBay right now and a complete bike on craigslist's "northwest/merrimack" which looks to be near Boston. Both of those listings call it a "Nishiki Alien clone" but...

This spring, I've been working on turning my first mountain bike into a "gravel grinder" of sorts: This frame style turns a lot of heads today (at least around here), but if I recall correctly, the style fell out of favor back in the day because they were heavier than a "normal"...

This looks less-than-promising: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/storm-ebike-creator-sued-for-fraud-by-his-own-pr-116935222729.html "Storm eBike Creator Sued for Fraud by His Own PR Agency" According to that article, the inventor was already sued for fraud in another case in 2008 -- and lost...

Looking great so far! :thumbsup: I made mine by tracing the kite-shaped "hole" onto a piece of cardboard, cutting it out, tracing that onto a piece of 1/4" plywood and then cutting it out with an electric jigsaw. After some filing and sanding it more or less fit around the welded-on cable...

Thanks! We're supposed to get more snow tonight, but if spring ever gets here I'm hoping to finish the "touch up" painting and then take this thing out on the road for some "on-location" photos. (Garage doors aren't terribly scenic.) Over the weekend I found myself thinking about repainting the...

Now all in one place over in the "Builds" section: http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/non-vintage-tandem-into-stretch-cruiser.91010/ I need to post a few more pictures when I finally get all the pieces painted, but I'd say the work on that thread -- AND the bike itself -- are both...

Part 5: Paint, Clean-up, Removing Decals, Future Craziness I'm waiting for warmer weather for painting and picture-taking. After a few mediocre coats of paint, I decided that "silver" wasn't the best combination for the PVC shifter caps AND the knobs. Since the caps are $1 and the knobs are...

Putting It All Together, Test Riding, Building Shifters I really didn't have too much trouble putting it together -- as mentioned before, the ChopShopCustomz seatpost is awesome and a perfect fit for the frame! Unfortunately for me, as I told Chad via e-mail, mounting a saddle backwards like...