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Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 9:27:48 AM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline This is completely not bottle related  but  i found  this bad larry in the  trash last night i think im gonna paint it neon green with  green dice on the   caps  and  a pair of  fuzzy green dice!!! or i may  do it  2  tone teal and  white  any suggestions? Post #: 1

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 9:29:25 AM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline a picture helps  huh  guys? (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 2

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 10:23:05 AM    capsoda Posts: 7914 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline WoW Eric, I haven't seen one of those since the early 60s. They were called Banana Bikes because of the seats. The boys had the high sissy bar and the girls had the short one. By the time I was 13 we had learned how to rake them and extend the forks. What a bunch of happy memories come floodin in. Thanks dude. I'd bring her back to life stock!!! _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 3

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 10:36:27 AM    epgorge Posts: 2422 Joined: 12/29/2006 Status: offline I couldn't afford it when it came out so I took one of my sisters smaller bikes and put on a banana seat and long handlebars and made one. We did the same thing with skates and plywood and called them skateboards. My kids think I am full of it when I tell them we kids (our generation) invented skate boards out of a pair of old skates. They just tooik it ot the next level. Hey cap did you put cards in the spokes? _____________________________ (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 4

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 11:33:05 AM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline re apolstered the seat... not a bad color scheme no? (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 5

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 1:12:36 PM    L C   Posts: 1580 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline You are absolutely right about the skateboard Joel, my Brother made one when he was a youngster. I found it at the home place about seven years ago. Didn't think anyone was looking, took it out on the street and tried to take a short trip on it. Well, I did, and the trip was short, did a Charlie Brown off the dam thing and liked to killed myself. Don't even try that, it will take the wind right out of you !! < Message edited by L C -- 5/14/2007 1:14:36 PM > (in reply to epgorge) Post #: 6

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 1:14:24 PM    bubbas dad Posts: 1374 Joined: 3/30/2005 From: South Carolina, USA Status: offline all it needs are streamers on the handle bars and a flag off the back. my brother and i spent many a day reinacting evel kneivle with our bikes that looked like that. _____________________________ john the older i get, the smarter my father gets! (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 7

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 1:27:24 PM    L C   Posts: 1580 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline Can not remember the name of the bike, but there was one back in the seventies that came out with a bananna seat and a three speed shifter on the cross bar. I understand that is worth quite a bit of money now. (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 8

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 1:46:45 PM    L C   Posts: 1580 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline John, when I was a young Lad, there was a huge sawdust pile in a field not far from where I grew up. It was dumped there by a Mill in town that had went out of business many years before. Me and my Buddies built some nice size ramps, and would go flying down a pretty steep hill adjoining the sawdust pile and would fly through the air off the ramps and crash onto the sawdust pile, had a great time. Very seldom did anyone ever get hurt. By the way, I remember my first bicycle, I built it from parts taken from the town dump that was also back in a field not far from where I lived. There is a house back in there now. A few years back, I went back and done some digging in it. Went to the back of it and dug into the dirt in back of it. Came out with quite a bit of stuff from the 40s and 50s, nothing exceptional. Been wanting to go back and see if the owners would let me do some scratching in it, but have yet to get there. The dump area is a good distance away from where the house was built. (in reply to bubbas dad) Post #: 9

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 2:01:29 PM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline Some Good Old Fashioned Coca Cola Took *0% Of the rust off but i need  to  go to the  neighboring Cyclery to get a new back bar  thingy this one has a split near the bolt god i love this thing (in reply to L C) Post #: 10

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 2:01:56 PM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline that was 80%...word (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 11

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 2:07:04 PM    capsoda Posts: 7914 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline quote: new back bar thingy That my friend is a sissy bar. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 12

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 2:12:58 PM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline i thought the handle bars were sissy bars  so  thanks  for making me sound like less of a moron at the  bike  store   cap  = ) (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 13

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/14/2007 2:16:02 PM    capsoda Posts: 7914 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Nope, The handle bars are chopper style risers. You could also get Z bars for them. They came out during the begining of the chopper craze and lasted into the mid 70s. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 14

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/15/2007 2:35:24 AM    L C   Posts: 1580 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline Oh Man! Chopper talk, sissy bars, Z bars, struts, hardtails,  and so on! Brings back memories of my motorcycle days. Came back home from the service in 1970, and felt I needed to do something constructive instead of destructive. Went back to work, bought a stock Motorcycle and decided to build a chopper. I can still hear my Wife when she came home to find me standing over the bike which was laying in front of me in pieces , and me standing there with a hack saw in my hand. I had just cut off the back end of the frame from the bike , making it ready to apply a hardtail, lowering the frame at the back end of it four inches and extending the frame six inches. I can still hear her giving me H. I got the idea she may have thought I had completly lost my mind.  Yesterdayyyyyyyyyy,,,,, when I was younggggggg !! Will have to see if I still have a picture of it somewhere. < Message edited by L C -- 5/15/2007 2:55:10 AM > (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 15

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/17/2007 11:00:05 AM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline Hah  i would really  love  to see that  one man got a picture of her picking her  jaw up off the floor as well? (in reply to L C) Post #: 16

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/17/2007 11:01:47 AM    Just Dig it   Posts: 299 Joined: 5/7/2007 Status: offline i got a  2 and a half -3  foot  sissy bar = ) 15  dollars at t he  local cyclery!!!! (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 17

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/17/2007 12:28:08 PM    L C   Posts: 1580 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline I have never been able to figure out why Women can not understand these kind of things Eric. I thought about that bike here a while back. Tried to find a picture of it in the old memory books, and came up empty. If I can find a pic, I will post it. The bike turned out to be pretty nice. < Message edited by L C -- 5/17/2007 12:29:48 PM > (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 18

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/17/2007 12:55:54 PM    logueb   Posts: 1384 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline My kid brother had one of those in the 60's.  I can't believe you guys forgot about the wheelies you could do on those things.  That sissy bar kept your butt on the banana seat while you were doing that extended version of the Evil Kineval ride. Seemed like he could go forever on the rear tire. My kid brother also jumped the ramps.  Did a lot of crackups also. One tough little guy. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to L C) Post #: 19

RE: Bike From Trash. - 5/17/2007 1:30:36 PM    L C   Posts: 1580 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline Well, I remember the sissy bars well, had one on my motorcycle I built. It was mounted over the rear fender, twisted chromed, ran up behind the king & queen seat I installed. Tied a sleeping bag onto the back part of the seat to give me something to lean against. As for wheelies, doing them on a bicycle was pretty easy, doing them on the real thing was quite different for me. I attempted two wheelies, lost control of the bike during the second attempt, went down with the bike,  hit the blacktop like a ton of lead. Did some damage to the bike as well as to myself. Took me about a month to recoup from the road rash as well as fractures incurred. < Message edited by L C -- 5/17/2007 1:32:37 PM > (in reply to logueb) Post #: 20

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