This bike was yet another lucky find in response to a screwball CL ad. The seller described the bike as an “Izuki Unisex Bike”. She posted no photos, and she refused to respond to email. The …

This is the “Before” part of my bike article.
I might be the last person on Earth to do it, but I’ve decided to take a vintage steel lugged-frame road bike and convert it to a single-speed, fixed-gear bike. …

First of all, I think that most people would be surprised that you can put a Schwinn trike in the back of a Scion xB. All you have to do is lower the handlebars:

I know …

Last night I repacked the rear wheel bearings on my Fuji road bike restoration project. I had never repacked loose bearings on any bike, much less any road bike. So I was very careful. Even though …

Or: another freaking Schwinn. I saw this on CL last night and the guy wanted $50 for it. I thought that it might make a nice matched pair for my (very) recently posted 1973 Schwinn Speedster.

They’re both in …

I bought this bike a few months ago in my largest CL mass-bike purchase to date. It isn’t the sort of thing that I usually do, but the guy’s CL ad had the usual requirements that …

This is my favorite bike. It’s a 2008 Electrabike Amsterdam Classic 3. It’s the bike that I bought that resulted in my current obsession with bicycles. I believe that a bike should be practical and …

June 1966, to be more specific. One of the rarest of Schwinn colors, and rarely seen on men’s frames. I guess that guys just didn’t go for this color, but I love it.  My iphone …

I have been looking for a matching set of men’s and women’s vintage Schwinns for quite some time. Why? Well, mainly, because I’m obsessed with Schwinns, and a matching set is one of the odd categories of …

I highly recommend this app if you have an iphone. It tracks your phone by its’ GPS signal and tells you how far that you’ve gone, how fast that you’ve  travelled, and how many calories …

You can’t find it on the internet. It doesn’t have a Facebook site. It doesn’t seem to exist.
And yet it rides among us!

It was manufactured in Taiwan. It has this unusual head-badge:

It has a nice …

When I began my adult bicycling adventure several years ago, I doubted that I would ever ride a road bike. I wanted to ride an upright styled bike, with cruiser handlebars. I did not want …

Soma Mini Alloy Front Rack
Ok, the lesson learned for 2010 is taking photos when you’re riding a bike is a hassle.  Previously I would strap my camera case to the rear rack on my bike …

I try to take a few long rides each week, usually 15-20 miles.  These are my fitness rides where I’m riding to develop stamina and maybe lose a pound or two.  These extended rides, actually …

So I was driving to the City of Dallas’ Fair Oaks Transfer Station with a pickup truck full of rubbish today………..and guess what I found at a garage sale on the way there?
A mid 70s …

I finally finished the Tri-Wheeler. 

It cleaned up remarkably well! I did all of the disassembly and I cleaned and repacked all of the bearings, crank, etc. myself. I also put the thing back together.

Thanks again …