Why exercise bikes are so cool to RRBers...

[yoothgeye]

Why are exercise bikes so cool to Rat Rod Bikers?

-Easily found for cheap to free
-Generally kept indoors until the day they are thrown away
-Parts interchangeable with normal bicycle parts
-Heavy duty chains
-Speedometers
-Tachometers
-Oddball parts
-Crazy big chainrings
-Interesting chainguards
-Pedals with no reflectors
-Big fat comfy seats
-Freewheels
-Track hub/cogs
-Acorn nuts

I'm sure someone can come up with more reasons, so if you have looked over them in the past, think twice now before passing one up on the side of the road.

 

[Sinner4]

But, the scrapers here get them first, I haven't seen one for a year.

 

[Eclipse]

I agree with what was mentioned above.
I like the ones with spokes but solid tire like the trikes. I'm having an idea for a project. I found a bike in the garbage last year but I'm using it. Then another one showed up with a mint chrome super long seat post and a nice Norco seat. I took them for more projects. Love the exercise bikes.

 

[mitchelangelo]

I picked up an old Schwinn exercise bike a few weeks ago. Yes, nice comfy Mesinger seat, extra long chrome seat post, perfect handlebar stem with slide rod quick adjust, Schwinn head badge, chain, chainring, and a Huret speedometer for 20" wheel. All excellent condition! Already sold the fixed gear 20" wheel.

 

[ratina]

This is why...

8)

 

[tanksalot]

That is nicely done !!

 

[expjawa]

How many teeth are we talking about on a chain ring like that?

 

[ratina]

How many teeth are we talking about on a chain ring like that?

65

 

[aka_locojoe]

I found one dumped in a field a few years ago. I stripped it on sight, took what I wanted and left the rest.

 

[yoothgeye]

Sweet, yours was Murray made!

The black one in my first post with the solid wheel, you will see that chainring soon I hope, I used it in a project... non-bike.

The wheel on that bike was a solid steel weight, like a flywheel, it probably weighed 50 pounds. I removed the freewheel and kept it in the shop for a while. A piece of 3/4" gas pipe fit snugly into the hub where I pulled out the precision bearing and I was going to make a bike repair stand out of it, but I ended up throwing it on my scrap pile for $$$.

I've had my eye on one of those Schwinn exercycle bikes for a while in someone's backyard (turned over) but nobody is ever home. I'll get it eventually.

 

[kingfish254]

The main reason I like them is $$$$$ and to see what others build with the parts.

I have parted out a couple of Schwinn Exercisers now.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=54524
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51376&hilit=+exerciser

I started a gallery thread for people to post what they have done with these cool parts.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=54757&hilit=+exerciser&p=519449#p519449

One guy bought the first wheel for a friction drive build.
Another bought just the S2 rim for a StingRay.
I sold the2nd set of wheel covers to a guy in teh US Virgin Islands who is going to use them on a StingRay Downhill Gravity Bike.

 

[aka_locojoe]

Sweet, yours was Murray made!

I can't recall. Wish I could. A lot of usable parts on this brand.

 

[Road Master]

Hey Ratina! What's the fastest you've had that up too? Slight down grade w/ the wind to your back - you might need a spoiler!

 

[yoothgeye]

This is the build that turned me on to exercise bikes: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=28257

 

[kingfish254]

This is the build that turned me on to exercise bikes: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=28257

That is one sick build!!!! Thanks for linking it in here.

 

[yoothgeye]

This is the build that turned me on to exercise bikes: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=28257

That is one sick build!!!! Thanks for linking it in here.

How did you miss that? Notice also, he took time off from building his wild Skull-o-sis build-off bike to just "throw" this together.

 

[kngtmat]

I wished I could find one to get although I saw a nice green Schwinn exerciser on CL that would have been cool to use it's parts on my green 68 Stingray but it had a $180 price on it.

 

[kingfish254]

Both of the ones that I found only cost me $20 each.

 

[dangratsdan]

Ive bought 5 of them all schwinns, 2 were the Airdynes. I get them mainly for he bigbutt seats. Ive never paid more than $10 for them.
A couple of them are out to people on loan to use, 1 to a recovering cancer patient, the other to someone needing exercise.
There are some interesting parts on the Airdynes I hope to use in future builds.

 

[irideiam]

This is why...

8)

Sweetness.........I want one!!