What did you do to your bike today?

[2WheelFlyer]

Right now I'm working on buiding my wife a bike ('81 Murray cruiser); I've done a lot but this is just the past week:

Sat and Sun: Went window shopping to a couple LBS for seats and tires to see what they had in stock. Prepped the frame, got it down to bare metal
On Monday I sprayed the frame with 2 part black urethane.
On Tuesday I ordered a bent springer and chainring on the net.
Wednesday... I cleaned and trued the wheels
Thursday: I bought the tires I saw on Sunday; polished the rims and mounted them. Polished the stem and misc. bolts
Friday: Since I can't afford relacing the wheels with black spokes I painted them with black urethane
Tomorrow: get a new tube since the one I used in the rear tire busted under pressure, reassemble the tire. I'll clean and re-grease the front hub and clean the crank bearings, polish the bearing cups.

Every day: check cool bikes on the net, check craigslist for that jewel in the rough find and dream about how to do the next one.

 

[Cameo Carrier]

Let me start off by saying that that is an awesome bike Npense! I think that is my favorite bike of all time. Congrats! All I did was a banana seat that I got for $3 and a headlight that was free. Sorry up front for the bad cell phone pic.

 

[Jimmer]

My 70's Varsity single speed conversion... added new seat and cream grips on it...

I just picked up a larger frame (2" larger), same color and might switch it?? :roll:

 

[DynoRat]

After 7 years I finally put on some ape hangers and removed the front fender. I replaced the front tire with a Hank. I am thinking about putting a Fat Frank in cream on the rear.

 

[ChopperDave]

Put a motor, jackshaft, and new fat franks on my Cadillac Fleetwood 8) and went for a ride...faster than I've ever been on a bicycle :wink:

 

[stretch]

touched up the paint on my varsity build, cleaned all the hardware and chrome, and started assembling.

by the way, thats not black, thats a like a midnight blue metallic.

 

[Buck Masterson]

Just text message your email.

 

[stretch]

ah! brilliant! :mrgreen:

 

[lobsterboyx]

Put a motor, jackshaft, and new fat franks on my Cadillac Fleetwood 8) and went for a ride...faster than I've ever been on a bicycle :wink:

holy cow! I think a lot of people miss what this actually is - ive always wondered if that could be done and sure'nuff ! awesome!

 

[ricksterr1221]

I rode mine. :]

 

[zenkick]

No new pics yet because I'm still working on her (old ones in my Intro), but I added a front hub motor to my Townie 7 today. (And doing about 18mph very quickly after the push of a button is a bit weird on a bicycle. )

Other to-do's this week - New tires, new fork, new handlebars, and more beers. Pics soon!

 

[lobsterboyx]

Lets see:

today I un-laced a 26 inch wheel with a nexus 3 speed with the intent to put it in to my road bike wheel - once the 3 speed was free i realized it was a 36 hole and the rim i wanted to lace it in to was a 32. do'h

I finally got around to matching wheelsets to bikes - 24 inch with all black thick bricks for the cwc hiawatha/roadmaster build - inflated and ready to collect dust while i continue to prep the frame, fenders, rack, tank, headlight and springer for a new coat of paint.

then i mounted the electra diamond tread tires on a set of powder coated drop center wheels hem'd up with ND blackout hubs. - thats going on the hawthorne duralum build - im stalled for lack of headtube bearings and lack of a cool fork (the original setup was 24z but im going with the 26z because im a baller.)

ill get pictures of all this stuff tomorrow.

and now im on a quest for a trike - read this post if you would - viewtopic.php?f=34&t=30815

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

I finally plugged the trigger and bought a set of brown Fat Franks for my AmsterBack build. I had to use my upcoming birthday (9/28) as leverage. :roll: