This kit is posted for sale on one of the BMX forums. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1700624331.jpg
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I've ridden this on the beach, not bad.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1700624527.jpg
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This is also for sale on one of the BMX forums.
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^^^ Cool bike. High-end stuff there. I need to first figure out if riding these roads is even enjoyable. If it is, I may aspire to something like that eventually. If it's like some say - doable but very slow - I'll stick to road and gravel.

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This is a cool set up http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1700720496.jpg
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He is asking $1,500 for it.
Saw this on Facebook market place

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James Moore

http://biccontrol.blogspot.com/2010/05/historical-nyc-messenger-photos-surface.html

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Dude looks so calm. Riding messenger on a no-brake fixie in NYC. You better be calm; better know exactly where you are every single second.

I worked as a bicycle messenger for about 18 months when I first got out of the army.

Really long story but mainly because I was desperate for work and I wanting a no brainer job at the time (because of my experiences in the army). Rewarding but also physically demanding. You also had to be OK with being dirty. You soon found out who the grifters and sleazebags were. Crashes, scrapes and falls were normal. You'd often hear the call come out over the raid about so & so getting hit by a car. If you were close you'd get there ASAP to help. If you were late with a package the customers would often treat you like schiit & some of them looked down on us. No regrets though. I'd do it again because you could earn decent money.

A certainly different way to make a living but my little city would have been a cake walk compared to somewhere like NYC.

I don't understand the fix gear messengers. They are flying, dodging traffic, in places like NYC and S Francisco, make sense to be able to stop to safe one's own life. A few of these cool, young fixed gears rider often say to me about positive, 100% power to the drive train. They make it sound like having muti-gears lose power.

Don't knock it until you try it champ. Fixed on the road is a totally different experience to the track. The track is nothing but hard work. On the road it's fun. If you have a flat road near you house you can get your gear ratio dialed in perfect. For hills you need gears IMO. I have a steel frame track bike with a front brake (so it's legal). I ride it 2 or 3 times a week on "my ring" which is about 6 kilometers total. 99.9% of the time slowing down or braking is done with your legs. It's also a great way to get your legs supple for the start of a new season although I ride year round.

I rode a fixed gear for two winters back in 86 and 87. It was on my Casati with a track cog (both brakes were left on), 42x16 around a 3.3 mile loop around the RoseBowl. A pretty flat course with about 1.5% up hill on one side, then down on the other. That's when I needed to learn to spin and boy, did I spin. A few of us would do this in the winter to stay fit and work on our forms. We were a pretty discipline little group. No upper body movement just legs. It hurts like heck. This was a time no one knew what a fixed gear is. On my way home,there's a mile of down hill so riding easy and using my legs to brake as well as my calipers was done often.

I learn to spin and am really discipline after those two seasons where a fixed gear was no longer needed. I can spin at 110-120 rpm for twenty miles. Sure, it hurts like hell but I do it often during the first 5-8 miles of warn up during the winter months on our training rides.

I see these kids skid the rear wheel like crazy going down hill avoid getting hit by a bus. Crazy.

I'd only worry if it doesn't hurt. ;)

edit.... This is a must watch video. The youtuber talking about his downtube shifters at the beginning isn't the focus, it's later when he takes a trip to the Marin bike museum 4:30 in, with some cool stuff. I had seen pics of these rear shifting levers, but never in motion.

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^^^^ nice vid!

I wound up putting a springer fork on the rat bike and it is now complete.

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^That is awesome!
I am salivating over a huffy (murray) build!
I'm totally going to steal some of what you did for ideas in a future build.
Is that a 24 or 26 wheel? Bars? Just perfect! Also- decals?

(we're gonna need a full build spec sheet please!) :)

In other news, my pizzashiki might be in trouble. Although the price was right at $0, the frame had some damage at the seatstay (something got wedged inbetween the frame and the seatstay and bent in (out?) the seatstay) and it appears the chrome plated endcap is splitting off. This is worsenening and will eventually need attention. At very least, gonna need to strip the chrome and rebraze, but- your project inspires me to go in totally new direction - this- as I finally get my wine bottle netting strung for picking up local vino! :)





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Thanks! There's really not much into it at all. Bike pulled out of the trash. Standard 26" wheels. Repro springer fork $75. Repro Vintage Seat $35. Tires I think were $35-40 each. Headlights maybe $20. Handlebars were the originals flipped over and 2"-3" cut off the ends. The vintage GB stem I had in my parts box. White panels are automotive vinyl wrap. Decals were made on the inkjet with bumper sticker paper! It's actually lots of fun to ride. :D

This is what it started as:

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I also added a cool head tube badge from the 1940s. It just had a Huffy sticker there. So I added this:

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That is absolutely insane!

The stem is tops, and the dual lights are nice too.

You've got me lookin' the net for something similar (right now). I'm looking at old 26' rocky mountain and kona frames with a similar feel to them. Problem is, they are way overpriced, and with gears and brakes, it won't be as clean of build. Cables running everywhere would mess with the look a bit.

Something like-

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Fortunately, they are so overpriced, I'm not even tempted! :D
There are 29 chrome springer forks out there, so that's kind of cool. That would let me get a larger frame, and keep the seat dropped. This is something where you don't want too much post showing.

I think you need a 3-speed or single-speed to get the clean look. I'm probably going to wind up selling this because I'm fairly deep down the rabbit hole now :rolleyes: and I really want to do a genuine vintage build. Start with a 30s/40s bike like this (this particular one would be way too nice to chop up) and use all period components - seat, spring fork, etc. These are going for $400 and up. But I think something could be found for a fraction of that with time and luck. Ideally, something with a nicely patina'd frame with some light corrosion here and there.

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I bought this Tom Kellogg frame several years ago and it's been collecting dust ever since. I'm finally ready to build it out. It's a 1977 and serial nr. 27. It's quite rare and pre-Spectrum. 50cm with 53cm top tube. Tubing unknown (I'm contacting Tom to see if he has records on it). The frame has some scrapes and bumps but nothing too major. Not bad for nearly 50 year old paint.

I'm not sure about component choice. Campagnolo Nuovo Record would be the safe choice. But I'm thinking maybe doing high-end Japanese stuff (Suntour Superbe, etc.). I need to research the 1977 Bikecology catalog for ideas!

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Check out how he filed down the lugs and how he joined the upper and lower lugs together. Just beautiful work.

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