What have you been riding lately?

[ParkRNDL]

For this past Thursday's Retro-Ride I dragged out the Apollo. For some reason, people LOVE this thing. It is a mongrel in every sense of the word. I got the frame/forks/seatpost from the junk pile at the local LBS, I spent a few bucks buying the wrong-year shifter for it online because it looks so darn cool, and the rest is just parts I scrounged. NOTHING is "correct" on this thing, but it's a pretty nice rider and it gets tons of attention.

As usual, we had a mixed bag this week.

And today I've been tinkering with this:

I like it better this way than the previous two configurations:

 

[GuitarlCarl]

I've always loved Apollos myself. Enough in fact to edit a post on my class one buildoff.

Which I was out riding last night in it's latest configuration.

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[GuitarlCarl]

My old Cannondale. Put 25 miles on it today for mileage in the Great Cycle Challenge.

Carl.

^^^ it always makes me laugh to park whatever I'm riding in the rental bike rack and take a picture. That's my sister on her recumbent trike in the background...

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[yoothgeye]

I ride this one most. Rode it a lot in Lancaster, PA last week.

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[GuitarlCarl]

I had Muscle Spasm out for a while today. Brakes suck I think I need a different handbrake to go with the manual disc caliper...

Light up skateboard wheel for my idler. I got it cooking with a hand grinder!
Carl.


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[GuitarlCarl]

And today I had Harlequin out with family riding around my extended neighborhood...

Carl.

^^^ my daughter on her Schwinn hybrid that we've been modifying since she before she began her college days, not quite a mixte but still pretty cool. My brother-in-law on his recumbent and my sister on her recumbent trike.

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[Duchess]

Went to Newburyport and had the bike back in the house less than 2 minutes before a thunderstorm hit.

I really like the bronze and white of one of the boats down there. I'm making about a half-dozen models of the boat I'm building, so I think I'll paint one in that scheme. Real one will probably end up light blue or emerald green, though.

 

[Duchess]

Took the 107-year-old bike out to find a quiet place to read.

 

[KJV]

http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/dead-end-kid-c1-finished.108722/

 

[ParkRNDL]

My campus green '72 Collegiate has been my go-to for the last few weeks; I took it on last week's Thursday evening Retro-Ride and then on Saturday morning I took it to Caledonia State Park.

Turned out to be the wrong bike to take: I thought there would be paved or hard dirt paths, but once you got away from the picnic area there were lots of roots and stones to navigate. I felt kinda like this guy, only less confident.


I've also been logging some miles on my build-off bike, which I am calling a Murray JetCruiser. I really like how solid it is, except for the rear wheel; I need a decent hub to replace the Falcon junker that's on there.

 

[Klunkruiser]

I had Muscle Spasm out for a while today. Brakes suck I think I need a different handbrake to go with the manual disc caliper...

Light up skateboard wheel for my idler. I got it cooking with a hand grinder!
Carl.


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A hand brake?
Like this maybe?

 

[GuitarlCarl]

A hand brake?
Like this maybe? View attachment 100229

Hand brakes that make you take your hands off the bars , on a bike with raked steering, are just plain suicidal (hence the name suicide brakes) and I won't do it. But...
I was using a disc caliper from a minibike... as soon as I put an actual bicycle caliper on there, the hand grip I had worked fine. Who'd have thought...

Carl.

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

Well, I moved to much flatter area in Savannah about 6 weeks ago.
Been riding my strandie about 5 days a week around here. My other bikes are hanging in the shed....for now....

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[KJV]

 

[Sphinx]

I got this beauty in the Spring . It's a 2017 SE OM Duro

 

[Speed King]

 

[Retro Flutter]

Been riding my restomod Fleetwing, as of late. This was taken at a local car show a couple weeks ago.

 

[ParkRNDL]

The missus has been talking about getting in shape for a while now. I keep offering to clean up a bike for her so we can do laps around the block together. She finally took me up on it. She actually tried a few days ago on a ladies' '77 Collegiate that I have around here, but she wasn't a fan of figuring out friction shifters and old derailleurs and never left second gear. So today I pulled out this old Free Spirit and puffed it up with a seat I knew she'd like, and off we went. I had her shifting down to 1st for the uphills and up to 3rd for cruising in no time.

We only did a couple of laps, but she said she already likes it better than the Collegiate. Hopefully it'll stick...

 

[KJV]

 

[ParkRNDL]

rode my Ross Barracuda around Cars & Coffee

(one bolt to remove the bars & stem and it fits right in the trunk of that Impala)