I attended a Critical Mass Ride in Detroit last night. I guess it was the first one in a long while. It was pretty fun. I think about 60 people showed up. We rode around downtown and midtown. It was a pretty good ride. Here are a couple pics.
1940s Goodyear Bike Project
I am working on three bike builds this spring. One of them is a 1940s Goodyear brand bike I bought last fall from my buddy Dave. It is a straight bar cruiser frame and I want to build it in sort of a late 70s mountain bike/BMX style. In my head it looks really cool. […]
I Laced a Bike Wheel Today
I have been wanting to learn how to build up bike wheels for a while. Today I finally got all the parts together to give it a shot. While I was waiting for parts I read about how to do it so today went pretty smooth. It took most of the afternoon trialling and erroring […]
New Bike for Maritoni
I bought Maritoni a 1975 Schwinn Breeze for Valentine’s Day. It needs some work but that is cool because I am going to strip it down and rebuild it for her. She wants it to be pink. It is still in the planning stage. It was hard to find a cool old bike to […]
Fender Bass Build Completed
Dec 16th, 2008 // Music, Projects, Woodworking
This is my new bass. I put it together from parts I bought on ebay. I also refinished the body. I really like it so far. It is a Precision bass body with a P/J pickup set, wilkinson bridge standard jazz bass wiring and controls. The neck is a standard Jazz bass neck with Schaller […]
My New Whip – Fuji Singlespeed – picked from the trash
I finished this bike a month ago but have been busy riding it and other stuff so I didn’t have a chance to post pictures. I got it from my neighbor who had thrown it out. I completely rebuilt it and it is really fun to ride. If you want to see pictures of the […]
