2 bikes, some new cables, and a day playing hooky.

[BiggJawn]

I took a "day for me" today. So after doing up last night's dinner dishes (Martha doesn't live here)I started tinkering. Then I went to town to buy some new brake cables, a new Sturmy-Archer cable, a coupla spokes (to replace the missing ones) and by 5:00 this afternoon I had taken the 3-speed hub off the $6 thrift shop Puch and swapped it with the Bendix-hubbed coaster brake wheel on the $5 Huffy Sandwich-Runner. Swapped the brakes over to the Huffy, too. Good old-school Weinmann "Made in Western Germany" sidepulls.

And I opened up the hub and serviced it, too. Geez, haven't had a 3-speed spread out in over 25 years (I learned to repair them 35 years ago) Clean, grease, oil...

Just a good day at the Frankenbike castle....

[madrchsod]

1. there`s a guy in my town

who has over 300 bikes of all shapes and sizes. i went by the other day and he had over 100 frames on a trailer ready to go to scrap..i`m there tomorrow,looks like he`s clearing out his bikes-the guys over 70 and in bad health..

[DemoTex]

2. Damn, BJ!

Good money that could have been spent in the ham shack. New mouse pad? Feather duster for the old HF rig? Roll of solder? Buck-up buddy. Biking is a summer sport. Ham bands are open year round (OK, OK, but you know what I mean.).

[BiggJawn]

3. Yeah, but when I'm riding or wrenching....

I don't have to listen to some ditto monkey No-Code Extra trying to tell the latest "Klintoon" joke he heard on Hannity but he can't get through it because he's laughing too hard...