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I bought this bike either in the fall of '21 or spring of '22 as a cheap step into road bikes. I had never ridden a road bike before, but wanted to give it a shot. I had been (and still am) toying with the idea of using a bike to commute to work in the spring months, and I found this locally for...

Figured I'd start one of these threads too, a place where I can dump pics from hikes, rides, interesting finds and the like from my neck of the woods. Right in the middle of the first real snow storm of the '23/'24 season today, still coming down. There's about 8" so far. I don't expect it...

I wanna see pieces of art that you've created (or found, bought, been given) that are made with old bike parts! Sculptures, wall hangings, statues, abstracts, etc. I also want to see your yard art! Surely we've all got some old bikes that were just too far gone to repair, but not too far gone...

Today marks 4 years sober for me, and I'm curious if anyone else here is recovered from an addiction (and if you'd like to share your story). I realize this topic could get heavy, so if this isn't something y'all are interested in, I get it. Just putting the feelers out for now I guess. Thoughts?

What am I looking at here? It came off a '55 Schwinn Racer girl's bike, not sure if it was original to that bike. There are no markings on the hub body that I can see. It's 36 hole. The axle is off-center to the hub flanges. There's a small screw that threads into one end of the axle. The...

Started putzing around with this Sears Fleetliner I picked up from member corysmeltzer a long time ago, and the rat trap springer fork I got more recently from member kirkpatrick, too... The goal is to source all parts from junk I've got laying around, except for wheels, those will have to be...

So I picked this bike up from a junk dealer/collector and, after looking it over closely, I've decided to leave it as is and just give it a cool cleaning, shine up the chrome, lube it up and hand it over to my wife. The serial number tells me it's a '65, and it looks to be very complete. She's...

So Friday morning, I'm on my way home from work, and as I'm going past the local junk collector/seller, some chrome and a bit of yellow catch my eye. It's the headlight on an old Raleigh boy's bike. Later that day I go back to check them out and, after getting some cash and hooking my trailer...

So my coworker came up to me and said his brother was in the process of cleaning some stuff out and he had a couple old bikes. He showed me a couple pictures that peaked my interest so today we went up and I came home with 3 of the 5 bikes he had. One was an unknown road bike, probably early...

Alright, I've done some searching here, in local stores, online, etc. but I must be doing something wrong. I'm in need of a 27" fork to fit my late 1950's/early 60's AMF-built Western Flyer. Can anybody point me to one? It must be steel as I plan on bending it, other than that I'll take...

I thought I'd get an early start on my build thread, so here it is. This is my first foray into vintage bikes, as well as "rat rodding" anything. I've always loved the style, but never had an appropriate project to try my hand for myself. Until, that is, my neighbor had a tag sale. I snagged...

Here's my recent tag sale purchase. I didn't see a serial number anywhere on the bike, the head tube badge is missing but the chain guard says Western Flyer. As far as I know everything on the bike is original, less the tubes and tires. It has a Komet rear hub, unsure which model as I hadn't...

Hey, I'm Kyle, I'm 26 and I'm a CNC Machinist from Massachusetts. I love all things ratrod and rockabilly, I'm more of a car nut but bicycling has been a part of my life since my first little red tricycle. I'm mostly into mountain biking, but a year or two I picked up an old BMX frame and did...