My name is Ryan, I’m about to be 29. And I’ve kind of always liked to tinker with bikes. At one point I had like 27 bikes stuff in a tiny shed at my moms house when I was in middle school. In 2009, I built my first low rider bike. Found almost everything in the trash that someone was throwing out, I put another $150 into it, my dad had a client that offered to paint it for me and being a teenager, I wanted “Bam Margera lambo purple” lol. Later I traded that bike for a drum set. My sister had found another low rider bike in the trash and brought it home to me, well I looked at my Huffy Slither that I could never get set up how I liked and slapped the springer forks and ape hangers on it and absolutely loved it. So backstory on the Slither, I got it out of the trash when I was visiting my dad one summer when I was about 11, he kept it for me for 3 years til I moved back in with him. I had tried to build it as a BMX bike, could never get the brakes right, never found a set of bars or forks I liked. And that’s when I was just messing around in the garage and finally found a set up I liked. Painted it black in highschool. Later I painted it yellow for some reason, then went to “patina” the paint. Found a hog skull and made a “fender.” Patina’d some of the chrome bits I purchased later to match the rest.
I have a couple frames in my storage that I plan to build up eventually, just trying to figure out what I want to do.
Anyways I’ve rambled for a while, here’s some pics.
I have a couple frames in my storage that I plan to build up eventually, just trying to figure out what I want to do.
Anyways I’ve rambled for a while, here’s some pics.
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