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 …

I’m pretty excited.  My long struggle to restore my 1970 Schwinn Town and Country Tri-Wheeler nears an end. Here is the re-assembly station in Casa Linda:

This rebuild was a bit of a challenge for me. …

In Flamboyant Red, single speed, 24 inch frame. I call it “The Spirit of ‘76″.
Here is what it looked like when I bought it:

I found it here in East Dallas on Craigslist for $125.00. At …

When it comes to bike parts I’m admittedly low tech.  I like quality components but I don’t measure weight in grams and materials like carbon, Kevlar, titanium, etc., do nothing for me.  Other than splurging …

This is a very good example of the sort of oddball bike that one can find on Craigslist here in the vast Metroplex, teeming with bicycles.

 The candid truth? I leapt from my desk in my Lakewood office …

I have been looking for a Schwinn Town and Country Tri-Wheeler for quite a while. They rarely show up here in Big D, for some reason. Now, that might be because the target demographic for these trikes …

Once I realized biking was going to be my new obsession I was faced with the harsh reality that I knew very little about working on bikes and even less about old ones.  True I …

1965 was a year of ambitious social reform in the United States and yet many events that year would also foreshadow a period of impending social tension and uncertainty.  During his State of the Union …

I picked this bike up in early spring 2009 from a guy up in Denton for $40.00. In fact, I drove to Denton in what turned out to be an F1 tornado storm system to get this …

In July of 2008, after about six months of being back in the bicycle game, I found this bike on my local Craigslist:

Sixty bucks! What a deal, I thought. A cool vintage, single speed cruiser …

In this early photo of bicycling in Texas, a white-bearded Judge Roy Bean stands outside of his famed Jersey Lilly Saloon in Langtry, TX, flanked by two new-fangled bicycles. This image was recorded sometime prior to …

One thing that I really love about my obsessive/compulsive bicycling hobby is:  The Hunt.
Whether it be Craigslist, Ebay, garage sales, flea markets, unsanitary looking thrift stores or those metal-recycling guys from south Dallas that drive around …

As I began to ride my Electrabike and grow more interested in bicycles in general, I began to spend more time online reading about and obsessing about bicycles. Growing up in Dallas, at least when …

“Mixte” in French translates pretty close to “unisex” which is to say a mixte is a step-through bicycle frame that is designed to be ridden by either men or women.   They’re often marketed in the USA as a …