So, I bought a bike. I’ve been on a mission to find a decent road frame to convert to fixed gear, but havn’t found anything yet (late in the spring to find bikes, and this city sucks). I did stumble across a shitty old ‘64 CCM cruiser at re-cycles though, so that’s going to be my painting project in the mean time.
Spent a few hours last night with some steel wool getting the rust off the exposed metal parts (and then a few hours cleaning black crap off my hands..), looking way better now. This thing needs new wheels and tires (whitewalls, natch), but they’d probably be worth way more than the bike itself (payed $75).. we’ll see. Fixed gear project (if I ever find a frame) is going to need some money, so probably not very smart to dump money into this thing.
More important, performance-oriented serious cyclist things need to be figured out first, like colour, cool lookin’ handlebar grips, and finding whitewalls. Black and army green is the winner so far.. this thing is one of those frames that begs to be painted in some 50’s pastel teal sort of colour, but I’m not exactly the kind of guy who rocks a teal bike.
I should probably be getting my computer situation sorted out and start dealing with SoC stuff, but oh well. I need a hobby that doesn’t involve staring at this *#@&% screen 16 hours a day anyway.