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Frame is a woman's Huffy that I bought for $30 and scavenged for parts to use on another bike a while back. Paint is the factory color. I just stripped all the decals off.
Thanks, the patina is the result of a home paintjob that was poorly prepped and time. I just wish it had just been left the original seafoam green though. The reason t's so solid is it spent most of it's life under cover, and it hasn't been driven around on muddy rural roads or during the...
Super-duper, top-secret formula Chinese Huffy Cranbrook blue. I was going to paint it a flat brown, but after I stripped the decals and got a good look at the beautiful paint under all those crappy decals I knew it wanted to stay that color. The bike was a like-new $30 garage-sale special that...
Thought I'd throw out a line and see if I get any nibbles. These things sometimes bring a ton-o-cash on Ebay. The one that showed up on our classifieds here @ $950 got me the starting point. Figuring how most of the time the craigslist offers are ridiculously low, I figured I'd start...
The paint's got a lot of little nicks and scratches that don't show in those pic's, but yeah, it does look pretty darn good for a 32-year-old bike. Here's a couple more:
Just realized that I never posted any "after" pic's of the Yamaha Moto-bike since the clean-up. This is NOT the one that was on the classified secton for sale.
Koolmungous is a 64 longbed. Ugly as sin, but runs like a Swiss watch and doesn't have any rust. What you see in the lower front that looks like the typical C-10 fender rot is bondo filling a dent.
Re: BOOM BOOM Mama Love
Here's a couple shots of the bare frame. the color is a baby-blue flake. The pic's dont do justice to the sparkle. BOOM-BOOM Mama Love likes sparkles.
Doing something like that is not only dishonest its a BAD idea! Walmart would figure it out and send the po-po's to his crib. :shock: :shock: They don't like getting ripped off. Buy the bike, switch out the wheels, and sell the leftovers on Ebay.
This one has a decent riding position, but I'd rather have the bars a little further forward. I'll probably end up putting a longer drop stem from a road bike on it.
It's an 80cc engine kit he got from Ebay. He said it had sat up for about two years, and never was broken in, so it wasn't running very well. It seemed really hard to start. He also had another one that was smaller (49cc maybe?) mounted on an old MTB frame. That one started easier and ran better.