Funky Paint Job on Danish Bike
I saw this bike in Denmark, while attending the Dana Cup soccer tournament. It was parked just outside the soccer club facilities for a Hjoring club. It's a great customization from just rattle can paint, turning the limitations of rattle can painting (getting paint on the tires!) into a conscious advantage. Hippie dippie tie-die Danish funkadelia. Of course the original color on these old style commuter bikes is plain old black.
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Robert
Garage Sale Bike Customization
This bike began as a Spaulding garage sale purchase. I peeled off the slightly garish, flourescent green decals, repainted everything with a flat black spray can. I wanted to play with a kind of paint-it-black style, wherein everything was black. I even painted the tires, rims, and spokes. The other simple enhancement was to "flip and clip" the rams handle bars, and to place the brake levers in a funky manner. This is a very fast, lightweight bike, with a crappy, but funky paint job. Total cost: $40 at garage sale, $5 for can of paint, $10 for pedal clips, and, uh, one roll of handle bar tape, which comes to $5.
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Robert
bike collection
bike collectionBelieve it or not, this is an incomplete listing of all my bikes. I have about 3 or 4 more hanging from the garage rafters in various states.
Laptop Pannier - do-it-yourself
Laptop Pannier - do-it-yourselfanother example of a homemade pannier. Note the follow-up posts at the end that describe perfecting the design. The bending of the steel bar is what I might have to do.
Heavy Duty Touring Racks
Heavy Duty Touring RacksPaul Woloshansky describes building his own bike racks and panniers.
