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Okay, sparks have flown, grinding dust is piling up, and parts are taking shape. I figured I'd start with the easy parts. And by "easy" I mean parts that won't require the use of any artistic license: the dropouts. The original dropouts on the frame are 3/16" so I wanted to match this to make...

Okay, so I haven't let this project die. I've just been busy. For some reason I decided two weeks before the start of the buildoff that a hack 'n' tack hot rod bike was just the warmup that I would need to get this build started. So now that I've finished that one and got the paint finished...

Woo Hoo!!! Paint update! So we finally had some nice weather where I could get out and paint the tins for the trike. I started with the orbital sander and stripped all the old paint, rust, and mill scale off the parts. A little bondo, some more sanding, and then self etching primer. They...

I'm still in.

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I'm in for this one. ( <-- look at me signing up earlier than the day before the ride!!! ) Period clothing hunh? I'm not so sure about that, but we'll see how it plays out.

Okay, so I got the cranks off so that I could measure the BB and try to find a new shell. Here is a pic of that awesome sprocket. I took some measurements and from what I can find I think I found a shell. I still have one question before I order it up. Are the threads likely to be...

Yeah, it was a great run today. After we left you guys we had lunch on the deck at Plan B under blue skies. The rain must have moved in later.

Ha ha... His "sister", nice. Did you say that out of habit? Okay one of these times I'll sign up for a ride more than 24 hours before the start. I promise! I was hemming and hawing over distance & weather, but I'm in for the morning leg of this run. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Okay, so now that I've finished spamming the gallery with a bunch of my builds in an attempt to build a "resume", I am going join this year's build off. I have a Joannou trike frame and some nice anodized 26" rims left over from my Secret Trike build. I love the lugs on this frame and think it...

Even though I have no plans for putting gas in the tank I wanted to close it up so that there wouldn’t be a chance of bees making a nest in it. I was hoping to attach the batteries for the lights to the gas cap, but they were going to need more juice than AAs. So I...

My nephew has commandeered our neighbor’s utility tricycle for the past couple of summers. Even though he was too small for it that didn’t stop him from riding it all over the neighborhood. Our neighbor’s mom wanted the trike back so it wasn’t going to be in the area anymore. The search was...

While working on my fat tire boardtracker Old No. 3, one of my cousins jokingly asked when I was going to make her one. I still had the leftover running gear from the boardtracker’s Huffy frame. I figured “Pshaw, I’ve got this!” I found a nice old girls frame on Craigslist that just needed a...

A friend of mine was doing some spring cleaning and asked if I wanted any of the bikes from his garage. Well…. Um… Yeah. I had been looking to do a go-somewhere-bike build. I have my chopper, but it wasn’t going to be ergonomic enough for longer rides or rides with hills. So I picked up a...

This bike is a byproduct of our semi-annual pilgrimage to the swap meet at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. A couple of friends and I would take a “mental health day” from work on the Friday of each swap meet and cruise around looking for projects. Ill-advised, peer-pressure-driven, and...

It looks like choppers will be in abundance tomorrow. I'll see you at the Tunnel Bar in the morning.

My brother and I will be swinging through, but we probably won't be bringing anything to ride in order to leave space in the car in case we find something we just HAVE to have.

Even before signing up for the board, I was mooching ideas and designs so I figured it was about time to break with my lurker tendencies and start participating. My name is Jeff. I'm kind of a dual-resident between western Mass & central Jersey. A friend and I started building bikes to ride...

I had a blast riding with everyone today.

Okay, so this looks like it will be the event that breaks my "lurker" status.... I'm in.