My family and I were doing our Saturday morning yard sale route when I saw something catch my eye that made me say "HOLY COW!" and flip the quickest sharpest U turn ever. It was a scrapper that had a parked trailer load of bicycles, with some washers and dryers bookending the pile. I get out and start peering through the tangled mess of bikes. The owner comes out and I start chatting him up. Although most were Walmart level kids bikes, I spotted a few bikes that were interesting. We Jengad them free from the mess and I paid him. Notice: I am now making 'Jenga' a verb.
I got a rusty Mongoose Ultra Fuzz, Toy R Us year 2000 vintage, like this:
The rear disc brake assembly and wheelset is interesting, but I'll probably trade it off for something else. The fork I plan to use on a vintage 20" frame project.
A Mongoose IBOC Pro, like this one:
I didn't even notice it was a mongoose, I just saw a Shimano biopace chainring in the pile, and figured the bike must be decent. This was a bike shop model of mongoose from the 90s. Just needed a seat and seat post.
Also got a rusty 80's Huffy Mt. Havoc like this: the fork looks like the first shock fork ever conceived by man:
and a ladies Huffy Mt Echo.. also from early 80s (last of the US built Huffy)
Then on the way home, a yard sale in my neighborhood had a faded one of these West coast limited choppers:
I bought the bike, handed the car key to my wife, and rode the bike home. It is a VERY solid bike, but the frame is fugly to me. I plan to use the fork and wheelset on something else.
I got a rusty Mongoose Ultra Fuzz, Toy R Us year 2000 vintage, like this:
The rear disc brake assembly and wheelset is interesting, but I'll probably trade it off for something else. The fork I plan to use on a vintage 20" frame project.
A Mongoose IBOC Pro, like this one:
I didn't even notice it was a mongoose, I just saw a Shimano biopace chainring in the pile, and figured the bike must be decent. This was a bike shop model of mongoose from the 90s. Just needed a seat and seat post.
Also got a rusty 80's Huffy Mt. Havoc like this: the fork looks like the first shock fork ever conceived by man:
and a ladies Huffy Mt Echo.. also from early 80s (last of the US built Huffy)
Then on the way home, a yard sale in my neighborhood had a faded one of these West coast limited choppers:
I bought the bike, handed the car key to my wife, and rode the bike home. It is a VERY solid bike, but the frame is fugly to me. I plan to use the fork and wheelset on something else.
