The Post Rapture Junk Bike

Well it seems that things have gotten better for the junk bike, post rapture anyway. Here is the pic of the junk before, crusty and all nasty, just redeemed from the side of a shed partially rotting into the ground.
Yes that is a SunTourV-GT luxe and a Selle Italia Turbo.

It is a Free Spirit Sunbird? Sears junk but I find the fit on these to be perfect for me.

Here's after paint, wheels, cotterless cranks.

Old Sugino single crank

Side profile, up in my makeshift workshop up in my storage area on the third floor

this where I usually work on bikes. I accomplished all of this in a few hours 

yesterday. I am going for a light fender-less single braked city cruiser.

Since Rhonda wasn't around to ask for advice on the build, I asked our resident bike specialist

J.D. , he is looking in approval.

Trying to make a dollar out of a penny, lukeofny

10 Speed to 3 Speed Conversion

For those of you who follow me I have converted an old ten speed to a three speed.
The Beater  as I call it has had its transfiguration.
I needed a replacement for my beloved "Victor"

I searched Craigslist and the dump to no avail, my friend Jon the Archeologist  was doing a site survey on some land and told me about a bike. Curious I walked the grounds until I had found it. This bike was a Huffy Timberline 3 speed missing the shifter, it had been ran over by a log skidder. I brought it home removed the decent parts and scrapped the rest. Next my frequent Craigslist searches had paid off, listed as a mens and womens comfort bikes the pics told another story. I found an old ten speed Free Spirit Greenbriar, not a great bike by any means but it is a lugged steel frame with fenders. Here it is in its original ten speed glory.

After trying to ride it as a ten speed I realized that it sucked and I missed my "Victor".

Having spare parts around is a good thing, I put a cheap crankset ( the old one weighed a ton!)

and built a rear wheel with the Huffy parts cold set the rear spacing. Now I had a single

 speed bike (no shifter)I didn't have a chainguard, I did have one for a little pixie bike. So I rode it like that

Then the brakes got changed, to old school center pulls, and I found another Huffy Timberline three speed and scored it for $20 just for the shifter and bellcrank, and added a UN-54 bottom bracket, now this thing is fun to ride. Here it is as I ride it.