Tag Archives: Bike

Sleek and Frightful

OK, let’s see if I’m getting my blog fixed here with a project update.
I’ve been working on this bike for about a month since I found the frame. It came from the basement of Northampton Bikes and they sold it to me for a song, seeing that it was going to a good home. Now, [...]

Stripping At Thanksgiving

EDIT: Hey, Makeketeers, I just finished the bike this eve! Check out this post to see the final product!
Like a lot of Americans, I was with my family over the last weekend celebrating Thanksgiving. Unlike most Americans, I’d come not just to hang with family, but to get some workshop time. My dad’s shop [...]

Wheel in the Sky Keeps on Burnin’

There are a few things left on a bike that I’m kind of afraid of. Off the top of my head, these are headsets, unsealed bottom brackets, and wheel building and truing.
No, wait, cross off the wheel building and truing parts.
A very generous friend gave me a gift of project budget, so I decided this [...]

Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’

Vincent and I spent last Saturday building him a bike.
Originally, the bike was a $20 yard sale Mongoose, purchased on Martha’s Vineyard and mostly left outside since, that I’d taken apart to see all the parts that I was usually afraid to take apart. Then Vincent needed a bike. So back together it went!

He bought [...]