What Did I Get Myself Into...?

[Gold Street Customs]

I had some bikes for sale on my car roof...kinda like a billboard for bike sales, While at church we had a guest worship team that travels all over the states called the Son Catchers, long story short she asked about getting a mountain bike, no problem !!, I have this newer Schwinn to clean up and put a wheel & tire on it along with some cables, I told her $50....so the deal is made,and then she asked if I could swap the bars,since she is tall and she wants her old ones put on, she said I could have the rest of the bike. so I told her I could get rid of the twist grip shifters for old style thumb shifters, Then I sat down and thought wow what the heck am I doing for $50 bucks, oh well geter done !!! and I have plans for the Huffy ,it could make a nice singlespeed cruiser (loose the forks)

 

[Walker]

Good times. I sold that pink Univega to a friend for his daughter for $ 100.00. She didn't like the old thumbshifters and riser bar so i decided to swap over the drivetrain from a newer schwinn mtb. Rear triangle needed to be re-alighned for the wider rear hub, swap out bottom bracket spindle, original stem was a 21.1mm (took a week to find a replacment one of those). Got it all thogether and the front trigger shifter was junk (-$ 15.00 for one of those). Good thing my time is worthless

 

[schwinnmesa]

You win some and you lose some. :wink:

 

[Gold Street Customs]

So far I am loosing to this one, I spent half a day trying to put a decent wheel on the back, WHY ? Let me tell ya , I had an old mt bike wheel in mind to put on, hub turned out to be junk, I had three others follow suit, So I finally get one that looks decent ,spins ok, So I start to dissassemble and notice the inner cone nut has some pits and is starting to wear out, so I walk over to my parts trays and realize my plastic shelve is on overload and about ready to collapse, So I end up pulling all of my boxes out and go thru them and get rid of the shelve,then I finally found a nut, put the wheel together,mount the tube and tire, go to install and then realize the alignment is way off, straighten that out and then realize the frame is off just a bit..... :x , so the adventure continues on this one, I walked away and finished a couple other projects just to realize things can go right sometimes. I finally got the three speed working on my fastback and changed the crank on my Redline Cruiser 8)

 

[Gold Street Customs]

Just got back from vacation and spent too much time on this, considering nothing went right , I found out its not worth the hassle of trying to reuse cables,especially with the twist grip shifters, I also found out why I have so many rear mt bike wheels in my junk pile , because they were JUNK !!!, so I spent way too much time trying to true up wheels, and find out the nipple on the spokes were rounded or the hub was junk ect..., but I got it done and she was happy and gave me $85 + 2 cds that they recorded and a book she wrote, and a promise that if they ever make it big , she won't forget about me , so as long as she was happy ,I guess I learned a few things....leave the newer mt bikes in the pile :wink:

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Just got back from vacation and spent too much time on this, considering nothing went right , I found out its not worth the hassle of trying to reuse cables,especially with the twist grip shifters, I also found out why I have so many rear mt bike wheels in my junk pile , because they were JUNK !!!, so I spent way too much time trying to true up wheels, and find out the nipple on the spokes were rounded or the hub was junk ect..., but I got it done and she was happy and gave me $85 + 2 cds that they recorded and a book she wrote, and a promise that if they ever make it big , she won't forget about me , so as long as she was happy ,I guess I learned a few things....leave the newer mt bikes in the pile :wink:

Or convert them to single speed or fixie

 

[mesome]

Back when I was in high school I was the resident "computer guy" for most of my church and friends and I would always end up in a similar situation. I ended up getting wise about it and stopped taking cash for side jobs and only barter in goods and services now. Favors, trades, or even just a really nice home cooked meal are usually more rewarding that a little cash. Also some people seem to be less demanding when $$ isn't involved.

Looks like you did a great job on the bike though!