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It’s got 12.5 inch wheels. It just needed cleaning. My 3 year old grandson has been riding a stride bike for over two years. He has had two stride bikes, the first one was a plastic job with 4 tiny wheels, two close together on the front and rear, then a real stride bike. He jumped on the pedal...

It’s going to be awesome

Speaking from experience, you have a lot of sanding to do. I filled the low spots on mine with JB Weld, several times. I then used a skim coat of Bondo to fill the body file and coarse sandpaper scratches. Mine warped a little as it continued to dry so I had to add a little more carbon fiber to...

Not sure as it’s so unusual

Here is one of my block chains. Yours isn’t a block chain. Clean your chain by putting it in a jar of acetone and shake it for 5 minutes. Pour boiling water on it. Put in a jar of simple green and shake it for 5 minutes and pour boiling water on it. Cover it with Evaporust and watch it closely...

Not necessarily, anything hot draws plenty. I cut a bolt to trim it yesterday and there was a horde of them attracted to the friction heat from the hacksaw. I ran inside.

Went to town for shopping today. The stores have many mosquitos. The check out people have bug swatting zappers.

Everyone agrees, this is the worse year anyone, including me at 77 years, can remember for mosquitos. Summer residents have left, people aren’t mowing lawns and I’m not getting any projects or chores done. It gets worse every day. Repel for cloths and bug dope don’t do it, they still bite. I go...

Krp, finished! I protest, they must have assistants. Can you send them my way? I need someone to dig through my junk, find the parts I need, determine what I don’t have and panhandle at the nearest round about for funds for the missing parts.

That’s a great motivator, and generous. Unfortunately I haven’t even inventoried my parts yet. Turtle build I guess. How about a reward for last to finish? Ha, ha.

Here is mine, a 1938 BSA Gold Metal.

It’s done, except for the head badge. Today I also put passenger foot rests on my motorcycle. Next, I have to finish painting and assembling my Claud Butler track bike and build wheels for my 50s Columbia. Then I can work on the build off bike.

It’s 47 degrees and the bug blizzard is, I hope, peaking. It’s not as buggy as usual so maybe I’m being optimistic. Anyway, about 10 more days and the bugs will diminish and perhaps then I can collect all my parts, and see what I still need. I went into town this past weekend, stayed at my...

Here is a tank I made last year. I took fast drying drywall mud and pored it into a homemade wood box. I used cooking spray for mold release. I made a drywall mud plug for the internal and squeezed carbon fiber/epoxy in between. Three layers. I used a Columbia winged tank I had to make the...

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You must be young. I used to do the same when I was young, 11th hour, work hard like a mad man just enough to get minimum done, get distracted, go do something else and repeat the next time I felt like it. Now I work slow but all day on a project. It’s amazing how much more I get done now with...

Good for you to join in with your situation. I would guess most participants are retired. Old guys that have time, work on bikes, go for coffee for an hour each morning and hang out at the hardware store.

About $500 in todays money.

Almost all the paint came off in the phosphoric acid dip. I used a torch to burn the small amount remaining and it’s back in the phosphoric acid to see if that helps.

The weather is now good for bike building, but. Today we went for a hike along Lake Michigan. I coughed up bugs all the way home. The bugs will be unbearable for two weeks and then they will just be bad. Poor dog.