Hey guys
I joined up a while ago with great intentions of building an awesome bike, but life sort of got in the way and I didn't do anything about it all summer long. Well, now that winters here I started going through my annual "why the heck did I move to this state I hate winter" phase. So I deal with my mild case of seasonal depression by getting busy and doing stuff that takes my mind off of the cold, so now is a perfect time to throw a bike together.
I have this old JC Higgins that I got at an antique shop in northern Minnesota. It's a skiptooth but I lost the chain and crank/sprocket assembly when we moved last. My wife has a schwinn that's in great shape, but it didn't get ridden all summer. My plan was to take the higgins frame and fit the wheels and crank from the schwinn, but since it's my wife's bike I had to ask her first. I was about to beg on my knees and offer to clean the whole house, do the dishes for a month or whatever else it takes when she said "go for it, I don't ride it anyway". Score
So here are the two bikes
Here's the bike after I fit the wheels and crank on. I got it in the basement to hook up the cable to operate the bendix 2 speed, it's cold out in the garage
I wanted to be all slick and mount the shifter suicide style, but I realized on the first ride that it's not very easy to shift down in there.
I joined up a while ago with great intentions of building an awesome bike, but life sort of got in the way and I didn't do anything about it all summer long. Well, now that winters here I started going through my annual "why the heck did I move to this state I hate winter" phase. So I deal with my mild case of seasonal depression by getting busy and doing stuff that takes my mind off of the cold, so now is a perfect time to throw a bike together.
I have this old JC Higgins that I got at an antique shop in northern Minnesota. It's a skiptooth but I lost the chain and crank/sprocket assembly when we moved last. My wife has a schwinn that's in great shape, but it didn't get ridden all summer. My plan was to take the higgins frame and fit the wheels and crank from the schwinn, but since it's my wife's bike I had to ask her first. I was about to beg on my knees and offer to clean the whole house, do the dishes for a month or whatever else it takes when she said "go for it, I don't ride it anyway". Score
So here are the two bikes
Here's the bike after I fit the wheels and crank on. I got it in the basement to hook up the cable to operate the bendix 2 speed, it's cold out in the garage
I wanted to be all slick and mount the shifter suicide style, but I realized on the first ride that it's not very easy to shift down in there.