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Just made myself a surf trike, to carry my surf kayak to the beach. Started with an early '50s? JC Higgins, some Porsche wheels and a little tubing...plan to make bodywork for it this winter.

John www.ghiaspecialties.com

 

I'm totally high....

 

This bike is bitchen

 

Man, there are some great bikes on this thread. The green one in this photo is EXACTLY like the one I had as a kid. Talk about bringing back some memories!

 

Thanks tattedfordguy...here is a before and after shot that ya might like.
A $50 dollar Jesse James bike, the way it should have looked.
***and yes it's rideable.

Before


After, and some fancy photography by the Wife


and another of the Greenie before paint.

 

Real cool thread. Don't know what I'd be doing today if I wasn't THAT kid who tore his bike down every day in the summer to build it different each time.
I wasn't as lucky as most kids back then(I say back then-I'm 38 so, back in the 70's). Folks couldn't afford to buy me a whole bike. So for a b-day I got a frame(TAKARA-remember those? I thought I was a BMXer), x-mas came along and I'd get the wheels, next b-day the forks...etc...
An older kid down the street hooked me up with 3 pairs of forks welded together. Take off those heavy motomags and put on some spokes with a whitewall slick on the back and WHAMMO. I got me a chopper.
Now I look back and think I am the lucky kid for having to put it together/take it apart myself. Don't think I'd have the "Nah, I can fix it" attitude today if it weren't for those days. Thanks mom and dad.

 

Here are a few I drug out of the basement. It may take a bit to get to all the others but I'll post those when I do...

 

Sorry about the overly huge picture, I forgot to downsize it.

 

It's not the size of the picture that's freaking me out.....

 

I'm with Jeem on this one...

 

here is a photo of my twin brother on our bike "chives." His 33 chevy sedan is called "green Onions" see we decided to call this bike chives...

 

Yeah, Jeem, kinda creepy.
LEBOLD......You got some 'splainin' ta do!

 

Sorry 'bout that. We don't get out much.

 

Hopefully with with a "real" Lady

 

mine, start to finish... i saved it from a basement, it had been there 40+ years

 

I see they're makin' them blow up dolls more life like these days.

 

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