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Thanks ! I'm happy about how good it turned out, I just need to get a solid aluminum seat post made. I'll get a piece of aluminum stock from the machine shop at school and I'll bring it home and spin one up on the lathe. Random question though, does anyone know if truck bed liner will stick...

Today I worked on the seat for the check, and I kind of pulled a rabbit out of my hat with this one. I had a pre war woman's long spring saddle laying around, and a men's huffy good vibrations seat too. I decided to build myself a long spring men's saddle! I separated the pan from the seat...

Haha I know the struggle. I might be young, but my eyes aren't the best. But my dad bought me a cool little magnifying glass on a cast iron stand, with a pair of moveable alligator clips on it that I use to do stuff like painting the head badge. I'll half to post a photo of it sometime. I was...

it was not very difficult to paint the badge, if I got any paint where it wasn't supposed to be, I just used some wet sanding paper to clean it off of the raised lettering. The frame and handlebars should be back from sandblasting by Tuesday of next week, so in the meantime I plan on rebuilding...

Bam, painted badge

I presented the klunker project in school today, and I think I did pretty good. When I got home, I borrowed my dad's can of paint thinner, and I went after the frame to see what color this thing used to be. I was initially very optimistic about saving the original paint just from how good it...

Looking good so far!! Hope we can meet up for a ride on our build off bikes when we get done. Charlie

You better believe it! I'm only a half hours drive from some of the best mountain bike trail system's in Minnesota, so there's always that to enjoy on a weekend. The ace klunker has been out on the trails a lot. Haha! Thanks. I seen it in the pawn shop with a 115$ price tag that had "Erik' s...

I bought this pre war Henderson badged schwinn straight bar last summer as a birthday present to myself. And in school I'm doing a project about klunkers, so three days before I was due to present the project I dug the Henderson, and threw together a single speed klunker out of it! The way it...

bluebird fork, they really rake out infront of the bike

I think an '35-'36 elgin bluebird styled fork would look killer on this thing!

looking sweet kingfish!!! I'm still waiting for a girvin fork to find me...

I think it'd be neat if we got our own show, even if it was just like a "roadkill" kind of thing on YouTube, just a half hour show on the 'tube to get us out there, then after we get the whole system down about filming, we could pitch an episode to the cw15 station or something similar. Imagine...

Well it's late. And I really should be going to sleep soon, but here's a picture for everyone. I'll answer any questions about the beast tomorrow if anyone has any

Wow! I missed a few replies here. I go to a unique school where instead of conventional learning to get graduation standards, we students can choose our own projects to receive graduation standards. And I designed a calender as a project, and one of the standards I am getting for the calender...

I've rode my bike to town many times, but to school is something I've never accomplished. Today was actually too cold to ride in, mid to low 40s and an evil north wind at about 15 mph. It'd be great going home with that wind at my back, but it would've sucked this morning.

crazy good fabrication skills!

actually, Its beautiful outside right now, sunny and not a cloud in the sky. I'm unsure what the temperature is outside, but it is really nice. We've got the window open here in the classroom. I'm listening to Jackyl, and doing research on gear inches on the sheldon brown site. Makes 5th...

I've done a few mods to the beast since I bought it lol. 12 speeds and a disc brake later, I have a poor man's surly. Since that pic was taken, I rerouted the brake and shift cables and I added broom stick bars. (the tab button apparently posts messages for you!) but anyways, I didn't ride in...

For a school project, I'm going to be riding bike to and home from school occasionally until the end of the year. From my house to the school is 12 miles one way, very few hills, and it's all fairly easy going. The first bell for school rings at 8:15 AM, and I'm planning on leaving my house at...