Took A Break From The Blog...

I've taken a short break from blogging (and car stuff in general) for the past few weeks to work on some bicycles!

There is a ride happening in downtown Sacramento on Thanksgiving morning, and since I sold my 1950 Schwinn Hornet a couple of months ago I decided I needed something nice to ride...

I've had a 1994 GT 24" BMX-style cruiser in the side yard forever, and I've wanted a cruiser to ride since high school, so I took the plunge!

Here's what it looked like to start out:

And I just finished it this week:

If you want more details you can check it out here: http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/gt_bicycles/42988

While we were at it, I built this stretched beach cruiser with my son Aaron:

He has a nice freestyle BMX bike, but he wants to stand out at the ride, too!  Vicki picked up a nice vintage Schwinn Continental on one of our many visits to the local bike shops in town, so she's got a new (to her) rig for Thursday, too.

Finally, I just went to my parents' house this afternoon and scanned a couple of pictures of my Haro Freestyler from BITD- I was ten, and I had one of the coolest bikes on the block... until some degenerate stole it out of our garage.

This was in the Northern Virginia area, around the middle of 1988.  If anyone has any information as to its whereabouts, I'll be amazed!