Just a quick introduction. I live west of the St.Louis area and have frequented this website over the years. Lots of cool bikes and some great info on bike builds and vintage rat bikes. I have a variety of bikes and have always tinkered with vintage MTB's and currently have several older mtb's hanging from hooks. I also have a couple of stingray's, an old 59' Schwinn Racer with a Bendix 2spd hub, and a 54' Hercules Royal Prince with a 3spd hub. The Racer and Royal Prince are both original and faded flat black original finish. A little gnarly but both rideable. My latest purchase, a clean old pre-war Hawthorne balloon tire bike ( a 1938 I was told) brought me back to this website. Its actually cleaner than the other two 50's vintage bikes and rides like a champ. I will have to get a couple of pics up. Right now the Hawthorne is going to need some saddle work to re-cover the persons saddle that came on it ( no cover at all),and I am also getting ready to get a longer 5/8" post made for the bike so I can actually ride the bike without being cramped-up.
Anyway, thats my bike intro and other than that I am into cars and have a 65 corvair corsa convertible and a 91 GMC syclone.
Jeff
Anyway, thats my bike intro and other than that I am into cars and have a 65 corvair corsa convertible and a 91 GMC syclone.
Jeff
