Hey all,
Well, i'm an absolute greenhorn from NY. I'm here on a rather personal mission, but I hope to stick around for the fun. As for this little "mission", my grandfather recently passed away this past april. After everything settled a bit and I was talking to my aunt, I found out that my family had gotten together and bought him a brand new bicycle when he was in his 70's as he had never had one. He rode it 10-12 miles a day for years until my grandmother got sick. He passed away at 91.
Well, some more discussion on the subject of my grandfather's biking led me to find out that the bicycle he rode was still in the backyard, stashed away under a pine tree. I went over there today and decided to make an attempt at making the bike ridable again. It's a Scout III by Huffy, unsure of the year so far. A bit beat up, but doesn't seem to have any really severe frame rust. Also have a Huffy Le Grande that I pulled out of there as well, which is apparently my uncle's old bike.
So, now that I have a few bikes, my goal is to get my grandfathers old Huffy ridable again, at the very least, I'm sure i'll learn alot here. I've been riding a Trek 7.2 FX for the past year or so, commuting about 2 days a week during the warmer months, but I know next to nothing about maintaining bikes and absolutely nothing about fixing them.
Ah, yeah.... I suppose I should say a little about myself too. I'm looking to get into grad school for library science in the next year or two. I'm a music lover, tabletop RPG fan and a ton of other stuff. I still hate writing these sorts of things...
Well, i'm an absolute greenhorn from NY. I'm here on a rather personal mission, but I hope to stick around for the fun. As for this little "mission", my grandfather recently passed away this past april. After everything settled a bit and I was talking to my aunt, I found out that my family had gotten together and bought him a brand new bicycle when he was in his 70's as he had never had one. He rode it 10-12 miles a day for years until my grandmother got sick. He passed away at 91.
Well, some more discussion on the subject of my grandfather's biking led me to find out that the bicycle he rode was still in the backyard, stashed away under a pine tree. I went over there today and decided to make an attempt at making the bike ridable again. It's a Scout III by Huffy, unsure of the year so far. A bit beat up, but doesn't seem to have any really severe frame rust. Also have a Huffy Le Grande that I pulled out of there as well, which is apparently my uncle's old bike.
So, now that I have a few bikes, my goal is to get my grandfathers old Huffy ridable again, at the very least, I'm sure i'll learn alot here. I've been riding a Trek 7.2 FX for the past year or so, commuting about 2 days a week during the warmer months, but I know next to nothing about maintaining bikes and absolutely nothing about fixing them.
Ah, yeah.... I suppose I should say a little about myself too. I'm looking to get into grad school for library science in the next year or two. I'm a music lover, tabletop RPG fan and a ton of other stuff. I still hate writing these sorts of things...
