I visit my friend down in San Diego (Pacific Beach) a bunch and would always his girlfriends cruiser to cruise around on and found it to be really fun so I hopped on craigslist and picked one up for 80 bucks.
I hadn't played around with a bike since I was about 11 (24 now)
How it looked on the ad
After I took possession of it I lowered the bars and raised the seat for long distance riding
Then I got it back home (Orange County) and was really set on painting it flat black, im not much of a fan of blue and it was really poorly done and chipped up
How it looks now
I haven't really taken apart a bike before so I just sorta winged it and had some challenges putting it back together but im hoping to learn more!
I really like the rat rod look and want to do some rust colored stuff (sproket, seat bar, rims)
I hadn't played around with a bike since I was about 11 (24 now)
How it looked on the ad
![](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/326/326b7bd035b311b31d8edc554c656ec0.jpg)
After I took possession of it I lowered the bars and raised the seat for long distance riding
![27photo.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/e58/e581be2aecb3c68376b70abe16551357.jpg)
Then I got it back home (Orange County) and was really set on painting it flat black, im not much of a fan of blue and it was really poorly done and chipped up
![4photo(2).jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/674/674cfbe98aae5b4aaf10899966d4cac2.jpg)
How it looks now
I haven't really taken apart a bike before so I just sorta winged it and had some challenges putting it back together but im hoping to learn more!
![5photo(3).jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/c11/c11cd3034629c08e15c7f0192730c3f6.jpg)
I really like the rat rod look and want to do some rust colored stuff (sproket, seat bar, rims)