do any of you loose your mojo?

[karfer67]

When I say that I mean do you sit looking at a bike wanting to build it but you just don't? Or get stuck on designs? I'm so horribly stuck with my Elgin lol

 

[Onewheelsqueel]

I am on my car. I got back into bikes to get away from that, Ive got it bad.

 

[dragnusa]

I always have a couple builds going on at one time so if I run into idea block one. right now Im working on my 86 GT then 2 different cruisers plus 3 no rush customer repairs. whats slowed me up more is the lack of heat in my shop.

 

[Firewalker]

yes and no....... I find its Time that kills me I get started then life comes up :? you all know what I'm talking about. Job, side jobs, honey to do list, kids, family, other hobbies. It goes on.....

I'm glad that I'm a more settled now than before, I found my way back here for starters! So I now hope to bring out two bikes that I started a few years ago. Next Bikers Build off look out!

-FW

 

[karfer67]

Its odd lately I will be doing something and an idea will pop in my head so I drop what I'm doing and build. My wife is used to it by now. Just this one its been harder.

 

[Terry66]

Its odd lately I will be doing something and an idea will pop in my head so I drop what I'm doing and build. My wife is used to it by now. Just this one its been harder.

Yeah man, I am going through that right now. For me, I usually do the more mundane crap when I am not feeling the creative side. Right now, I am in the middle of tearing down and restoring a set of 24" New Departure D wheels. Rebuilt the hubs, polishing all the spokes, repainting the rims. I mean just busy work that I know has to be done for the build

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

Maybe we're running out of ideas.

 

[Terry66]

Might have to take to wearing lycra clothing and building 15 pound road bikes...

Been doing that for years.... 8)

Ride and built touring and mountain bikes too. It's all the same game....just different pieces/parts.

 

[raggedjim]

I never had mojo, everything I do is a struggle.

Good luck, Rg

 

[yoothgeye]

I've been "working" on my tandem for about 2 years now. Most of the time I wasn't willing to work on it because I didn't have EVERY part needed to complete it, now that I do, I don't know... the same with G.I. JESSE JAMES, I just roll it out of the shop to work on other bikes and back in when I'm done.

Cleaning my work space would do wonders for my desire to work on bikes.

 

[october]

Maybe we're running out of ideas.

Hasn't everything already been done?
Are there any new ideas, or is it just different combinations
of the same parts?

oct

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

Yep, right now I've got a 56 Higgins to restore, my wife's bike to finish and a custom stretch to work on and I'm like......meh.

Hopefully, the New Year will inspire me to get off my couch (which is SUPER comfy BTW) and knock these out.

Best of luck to us all finding our Mojo, baby!

Cheers,
Dr. T

 

[user 135]

When I say that I mean do you sit looking at a bike wanting to build it but you just don't? Or get stuck on designs? I'm so horribly stuck with my Elgin lol

Yep.....but usually run out cash first. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[outskirtscustoms]

All the time, especially in the winter. Most of the time I run out of money halfway through a build and I start looking at parts I have laying around and go a different direction entirely. I have a build right now that has been 5 years in the making and I'm still in the design / gathering parts phase. I have not turned one bolt on it yet.

Also one of my biggest faults is that I am a hopeless impulse buyer. I see something I want and I have to get it so I sell off a few of my current projects to fund a new project. Then I have to wait to find another to finish what I started. I have had three Bratz low-riders to do one build and owned one of them twice. This time I'm going to actually finish what I started....unless something cool pops up. :mrgreen:

Also one of my faults is that I can't leave anything alone. I have to change something on it weather it is just swapping out tires or adding accessories or tearing it down to the frame and starting over from scratch. Even when I think a bike is perfect when I get it (Example my industrial trike) I ride it for a while then I have to tweak the gearing, then I think different tires will look better, then mirrors and a horn to make it safer, then a floor in the cargo box so smalls don't fall through, then...the list goes on and on. As they say a build is NEVER truly "finished."

 

[schwinnless]

I sorta have as far as finishing "scrubbing" the last bits of rust off my old WF. But i just ride it anyhoo!! :lol:

I get lazy sumtimes too. Its been a month since last rat rod ride on my new bike and still aint broke it down to clean out the sand(we rode by beach w/ 30+ mph headwind!!).

Mabey not "MOJO" but similar i spose?

 

[Voyager Al]

Doc,you will be full of cool ideas when ya come out with me,Jeff and Herman and Dan at Christmas. A ride to OTB cafe, on a dogdart original works!. See ya soon! We are gonna steal ya for a night of fun. Bring cold weather clothing,jackets and gloves. We gots the bikes covered.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Yeah the other day I ran by Chucks house and he gave me a Schwinn out of his junkbike pile.
I wanted something to stretch and add wide stays for big tires. I am not particularly fond of
Schwinn's but I always loved to cut them up. :lol: I have sat looking at this frame for a long time.
I know where to cut and the keeping the lines cool will take a little doing. Still will look a while
longer before I really decide the direction. Its from Taiwan and might have been the oiliest bike
i have ever had. Kinda looked like the bottom of a 1920's motor with a bad oil leak. It was really
nice of Chuck to give it to me. He is a good guy.

 

[outskirtscustoms]

I'd love to build a fat tire mountain bike like that but the tires, tubes, and rims are so dang expensive!

 

[motopsyco]

Lately my mojo seems to be returning. I just finished a truly evil Electra about a month or so ago, and now have decided to finish my tandem project (my wife really liked ours) and a couple of others that fell by the wayside last year when I fell into the deepest depth of tiredness I have ever felt. Then it's time for a motorized Worksman 8) . If I don't lose my mojo again :shock:

 

[junknutz1975]

for me ive got a bunch of ideas, unfortunately the evil greenback rules all :?
also winter puts a kink in the chain here in new england