Ok, my first bike build/rebuild. I picked up a Huffy Santa Fe a few years back at a Salvation Army store for about $40. It was in decent shape, a little spotting rust here and there but nothing major. Then it sat in my garage for a while...between a year and a half, possibly closer to two years. Time to rebuild and make her new-ish again.
Overall plan is to strip her down, clean her up, repaint and then re-assemble with a mix of new and stock parts just to customize a bit. Later on I may drop a motor on her, but that's not decided yet.
She started off like so...
Now she looks a bit more like this...
I still have to pull the bottom bearing and pop off the chain this afternoon. May start paint stripping, may wait till the weekend.
Oh, and this guy showed up to volunteer as a build mascot, so he will be getting a matching paint-job.
Overall plan is to strip her down, clean her up, repaint and then re-assemble with a mix of new and stock parts just to customize a bit. Later on I may drop a motor on her, but that's not decided yet.
She started off like so...
Now she looks a bit more like this...
I still have to pull the bottom bearing and pop off the chain this afternoon. May start paint stripping, may wait till the weekend.
Oh, and this guy showed up to volunteer as a build mascot, so he will be getting a matching paint-job.