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Back at it today! The pedals went on last week but I forgot to highlight them. They came off an exercise bike that I discovered under our sunporch! (That bike also lent its handlebars to my daily rider Raleigh Sprite, and I think will give its saddle to my Class 2 entry.) My first order...

He sure is! He'll be the neighborhood bike mechanic before he starts kindergarten at this rate!

This morning's mission was to get the rear wheel sorted. I started with hacking the rear dropouts off the Next, and then I bolted them onto the Hawthorne in some different configurations to see which worked the best. I didn't take a lot of pictures of the process, but here are what I have...

Didn't get a whole lot done today, despite putting in a solid couple hours of work. I decided to borrow the truss bars from my '65 Western Flyer Strato Flyer, as I'm in search of an original rat trap springer for it anyway. The bearings were extremely dry and crusty, but some PB Blaster and...

This is where I stopped for the day. Tomorrow I plan to finish the front dropout extensions and make some for the rear.

Raiding the scrap pile came up with a Next Wipeout which I was planning to cut up anyway. A few minutes with a Sawzall and I had the dropouts off, albeit in desperate need of a grinder. For experimentation purposes, I found some hardware the correct size and bolted them on, trying several...

The next step, naturally, was to mate the wheels and the frame. Much to my dismay, a problem revealed itself immediately: the frame is a 24 incher, rather than a 26" as I thought and planned for. I consulted the boss (my 2yo,) and he said I better figure out a way to use those 26" rollers, or...

Hi everyone, welcome to my first ever RRBBO thread! The bones of this build are the frame and fork of a 1964 Hawthorne, which I bought for $10 at the Get-a-Grip swap in March. I was drawn to this frame because of the patina, and the unique twin upper bars/single lower cantilever design. Here...

I sure am! I have one build planned for each class.

5 out of my 10+ Murrays: Sears-badged Huffy "The Rail" 5 speed My daily rider Raleigh Sprite:

Hey everyone, I've been lurking here for a while now and actively participating on the Facebook group, but I've decided it's high time to joined up here! I'm a former automotive restoration tech and performance tuner, and a current stay-at-home dad, located just outside of Atlanta, GA. I got...