My Own Super Course!!!

 

1974 Peugeot UO-8: 2,000-Mile Update

I love this bike!!

More Bikes for Friends

I thought I had toned down the amount of bike stuff I was doing when I moved to Pittsburgh, but it turns out I still turned out a fair amount of bikes for friends during my two years at school.

The Lotus is back ... briefly

1974 Peugeot UO-8 Delivery bike

This bike came to be the way it is for many reasons, and all of the planning or brainstorming in the world couldn't have made it work out as well as it did when everything finally came together. 

Fixed Gear, For Real

In a previous post about the 2-speed Hercules, I had commented about how, despite the amount and intensity of hills in Pittsburgh, I did not usually feel the need for more gears even when the hills were part of the ride.

Getting To Know the Stuntman - 650B and more

As stated in an earlier post, I bought a brand new Raleigh Stuntman within a week of moving to Pittsburgh. Before I had even finished paying it off, I'd already started modifying it.

I Could Not Believe This!

I felt like imitating a clickbait title was appropriate for this post, so please bear with me.

Sir Wild Toad Gets A Little More Wild?

My move from Ann Arbor to Pittsburgh necessitated that a few minor changes occur on the Lenton before I was fully comfortable with it.

My First Modern Bike!

And naturally, it's a Raleigh.

Mobilizing the Motobecanes

These are the finest bicycles I have worked on to date.

A22CASEFAIL

Dun dun dun

Religious Conversion

And by that I mean yup ... I should have seen a 650b conversion coming from miles away.

Retiring the Ross

I arrive with a heavy heart to report the news that my rusty-but-trusty workhorse has finally kicked the bucket. Final photos have been taken with it sitting on the kitchen table in an effort to give it a proper send-off. 

Reverse Restomods

This post has been a year in the making, mainly because I kept forgetting to grab photos of the Linus, but I'm sort of glad that I waited. Here are two newer steel frames equipped with vital parts from vintage road bikes, contrary to the usual course of action.

Sir Wild Toad

Can you see it?

First Time Fiddling With Brifters

I need to specify that while my Ross has friction shifters mounted next to the brake levers and my Lotus has a Sturmey-Archer (indexed) shifter placed close to where the roadies of the stone age used to put theirs, we're actually talking about new Shimano 105 levers this time.

Another Monster Emerges: Damson Retro-Direct 2-speed

Back before derailleur drivetrains became popular, internally-geared hubs ruled the bicycle world. And back before those, mostly everyone rode single speed or fixed gear.

2Pake

Behold, my first custom build intended purely for sale, my first entirely "modern" bike, my first bike assembled on film, so to say, and the first bike I have assembled from the ground up in one day, which I think is worth mentioning since none of this came as a kit that was supposed to fit together out of the box. I'm just surprised that everything fit together perfectly and I didn't have to wait for different parts to arrive.

The 200-Mile Shakedown Ride

Exactly three weeks ago, I got my 1981 Lotus Excelle mixte to the point where I could ride it and sort out any bugs that came up.