Missed a Milestone/Busy Weekend

The post about the chrome bike was my 200th post on this blog, and I just completely missed that fact. It's not real important, by any measure, but I like those round numbers.



Got a lot done, this weekend:

Bought some supplies at the welding shop which made my life a bit easier (an extra Acetylene bottle and an Oxy bottle twice as big as my old one, plus some finer gauge brazing rod). I was having a lot of problems with a project I'm working on, due to running out of gas, etc., and this stuff helped me get the job done. I worked on that particular project until 11:00 PM on Thursday night (that's part of the weekend when you have Friday off).





Thursday Night's Project:
Took this KHS I'm building into a scorcher for HBC...



and added the secondary top tube to give it that vintage/retro flava. I sprayed a quick flat black ghetto paint job on it for the photo, but it is going to the powdercoater for a real finish. I will post photos, of course, once it is built up into its final form.

Did laundry... after 3 weeks. 'Nuff said.


Built two bikes: one that was sold, one for HBC's wife.

This is the sold bike, a nice Miyata commuter with a freewheel and fixed-gear set-up on the flipflop hub. It came out really nice.

This is Mrs. Click's Hercules 3-speed. I think it's one of the coolest-looking bikes I've built. HBC and I spent about 8 hours on it, yesterday. Seemed like every piece that went on presented some kind of challenge.

Next up: Grocery shopping! Time to hook up the bike trailer...

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