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Huffy Savannah "comfort touring" bike. Ten speeds and all the pink that you can handle. Gonna fix it up for my wife. Maybe I'll attach a bottle holder and add a bottle of P-B. When my daughter was 5 years old, we added a bedroom for her and I told her she could pick out the paint. Yup, it ended...

Spaceliner. Started out with chrome frame. Chrome was replaced with rust. Rust was replaced with Krylon Metallic Satin Nickel from rattle can. I was going for the look of a 1950's fighter jet, like an F-80 Shooting Star. Like model planes from my boyhood.

Good stuff! Very proud of you fellow Ratters! I did some work in construction safety management and a very powerful behavioral tool along with PPE was the safe performance self assessment (SPSA). This is kinda a clumsy name for a simple action. The idea is that before you start a task, you stop...

Figure 8's make sense since the direction of the movement of the abrasive relative to the surface of the workpiece goes through full cycles, which would tend to equalize the abrasion across the surface. Did you write a report on the study?

Is that a Park tool? It isn't blue. Apparently, a former owner used a Park Seat Clamp Deforming Tool FU-666 (pictured below).

Cousin Mattley: Like Wildcat and Dr. Gold say, you'll probably be happier with a bigger bike. Pics are examples of some 24" bikes fitted for folks around 5'-10". These are not BMX-style frames but you could probably find a 24" MTB to convert to single speed (or keep the derailleurs if you want)...

"I like my helmet, too! It makes me smile!"

Cousin K: Glad to learn that you escaped with only bandaid boo boos. Like Sergeant Esterhaus says: I'm afraid that you have to assume that all drivers are blind, clueless, and/or evil.

My son and daughter-in-law, who are all about the look, wears theirs year round in NYC. His is "Stay Gold" and hers is "Rose Gold." They have no complaints about heat. I had told him before that his helmet reminded me of the helmets that drivers of Indie cars and midgets used to wear back in the...

Cool! I like the integrated sissy bar/fender brace.

As the Statler Brothers sang: Counting flowers on the wall That don't bother me at all Playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo Now don't tell me I've nothing to do.

An old Popular Mechanics article showed a pair of front forks to make a trailer.

Man, don't that get the adrenaline pumping? Even thinking about it....

The snow is almost gone from NE NJ. Spring is almost here. Good weather for a cruise on a Shelby Flying Cloud. Smooth riding with that Shockease Fork.

Coincidently, just yesterday I saw the movie "Greased Lightning" with Richard Pryor playing Wendell Scott. Scott was the first black driver in NASCAR and started his career driving moonshine. The movie had some cool scenes of dirt track racing and some heart-breaking and/or infuriating scenes of...

If you would also consider a non-Schwinn camelback, keep your eyes open for a Ross Compact. They were manufactured as 3-speeds (Shimano hub) and as 10-speeds.

Uncle John: Lots of potential there! I'm sure that you can get lots of valuable help from this forum. Post specific questions as you proceed with your project. And have fun.

Like the Tracy Morgan ad on the Super Bowl, "pretty sure" might not be enough. Seat posts come in lots of sizes, some only 1mm different. Time to buy a vernier caliper (or a digital caliper if you want to spend more money).

"It also lowered the cranks about an inch, I scraped the pedals a couple times leaning into corners." Cousin Wildcat: I like the look of those 27" frames with 26" wheels. The pedal scraping is pretty easy to solve: get in the habit of putting down the outside pedal on tight turns. Have fun!