hello!
I just remembered about this site after searching for some inspiration for my new bike, a re-pop 2007 Schwinn Stingray. I had seen this site a while back, but I lost interest after never being able to find a classic bike to build on.
I've been tinkering with bikes for the last 4 years, usually just fixing my friend Wal-mart bikes after the parts explode. I normally ride my custom built $530 freestyle bike, but realized after several crashes, that BMX is better saved for the skatepark, and that I needed to build a cruiser. Sooooo... I traded a fixed up "X-games" motoX bike for a 2007 stingray one of my friends had laying in his backyard after the stem cracked.
I fixed it all up, used some parts from a 1967 "Foremost" bike I had in my garage, and I finally had myself an acceptable cruiser!
HERE'S SOME PICS!!!!!!!!
so far, I've added, a new front wheel and tire, new hand-painted sprocket of off a '60 "Free Spirit" and new grips.
I just remembered about this site after searching for some inspiration for my new bike, a re-pop 2007 Schwinn Stingray. I had seen this site a while back, but I lost interest after never being able to find a classic bike to build on.
I've been tinkering with bikes for the last 4 years, usually just fixing my friend Wal-mart bikes after the parts explode. I normally ride my custom built $530 freestyle bike, but realized after several crashes, that BMX is better saved for the skatepark, and that I needed to build a cruiser. Sooooo... I traded a fixed up "X-games" motoX bike for a 2007 stingray one of my friends had laying in his backyard after the stem cracked.
I fixed it all up, used some parts from a 1967 "Foremost" bike I had in my garage, and I finally had myself an acceptable cruiser!
HERE'S SOME PICS!!!!!!!!
so far, I've added, a new front wheel and tire, new hand-painted sprocket of off a '60 "Free Spirit" and new grips.