First things first, my brother named this bike, so blame him.....
I first built this bike as a cheap (as in free) way to get to and from college. the frame was found on a scrap pile in my dad's friend's scrap metal yard. the frame's always been a bit bent, which I might deal with eventually, because it won't go no-hands.
anyways, here's the first version:
as you can see, not very stylish. just the old frame, with a bunch of cast off MTB parts. I rode it for 2 or 3 years like this, steadily gaining random stickers, just making it really ugly for theft deterrent. It had a very hard life for a while there. I broke the cottered crank spindle gapping down 5 stairs... put some different cranks on. I always had trouble with the spokes in the rear, because the holes in the coaster hub were too big. once one went, they just started to pop. in a ten minute ride I cleared probably 6 spokes out of it one time, arriving home with tire rub on the chainstays, and shaking like crazy. so after that I found a 3 speed hub, and it was hooked up to a lever at the seat lug. that blew up in less than a year, I don't think I was engaging the gears right with that shifter. by that point, I had enough old race parts to build a better school bike, and this one was retired.
Soon I brought it back as a fixed gear, and my "better bike" crapped out and Mr Poopypants was back in. I called it quits on engineering, and the bike kind of just sat, until I got a free Fuji leather seat and lugged Raleigh MTB fork working as a bike mechanic. My brother donated a sweet set of Nitto bars to the cause, and I taped them with some old used vinyl road tape, mounted on a Peugeot stem. All the ugly stickers, reflectors, and brakes came off (the bike has nice patina I think)except for "knobbystock" which was a cool mountain bike race I did in the 90's. I caved and spent $8 (at cost) on tires... but I never did like those. at this point it looked like so:
Next mod: a set of early 90's vintage cromoly cranks. I had these on a "freeride" bike, and they have been broken off and re-welded... they should never have seen that much airtime I guess
Pedals are Primo BMX, with the edges sanded on a snowboard base grinder.
It stayed like that until this week, when I put some IRC tires on it:
I had also trimmed the seat:
and a few more for kicks:
I first built this bike as a cheap (as in free) way to get to and from college. the frame was found on a scrap pile in my dad's friend's scrap metal yard. the frame's always been a bit bent, which I might deal with eventually, because it won't go no-hands.
anyways, here's the first version:
as you can see, not very stylish. just the old frame, with a bunch of cast off MTB parts. I rode it for 2 or 3 years like this, steadily gaining random stickers, just making it really ugly for theft deterrent. It had a very hard life for a while there. I broke the cottered crank spindle gapping down 5 stairs... put some different cranks on. I always had trouble with the spokes in the rear, because the holes in the coaster hub were too big. once one went, they just started to pop. in a ten minute ride I cleared probably 6 spokes out of it one time, arriving home with tire rub on the chainstays, and shaking like crazy. so after that I found a 3 speed hub, and it was hooked up to a lever at the seat lug. that blew up in less than a year, I don't think I was engaging the gears right with that shifter. by that point, I had enough old race parts to build a better school bike, and this one was retired.
Soon I brought it back as a fixed gear, and my "better bike" crapped out and Mr Poopypants was back in. I called it quits on engineering, and the bike kind of just sat, until I got a free Fuji leather seat and lugged Raleigh MTB fork working as a bike mechanic. My brother donated a sweet set of Nitto bars to the cause, and I taped them with some old used vinyl road tape, mounted on a Peugeot stem. All the ugly stickers, reflectors, and brakes came off (the bike has nice patina I think)except for "knobbystock" which was a cool mountain bike race I did in the 90's. I caved and spent $8 (at cost) on tires... but I never did like those. at this point it looked like so:
Next mod: a set of early 90's vintage cromoly cranks. I had these on a "freeride" bike, and they have been broken off and re-welded... they should never have seen that much airtime I guess
Pedals are Primo BMX, with the edges sanded on a snowboard base grinder.
It stayed like that until this week, when I put some IRC tires on it:
I had also trimmed the seat:
and a few more for kicks:
