projecto

yes it's been a while since i've put in a serious blog....lots of wonderful things have happened, some bad as well so i guess i'll do a quick catch up followed by what little projecto i've undertaken.

good:
fairly happy
garden is going good
animals are still kickin
i'm riding a little bit again
commuting to work on bike 99.9% of the time
raced rmr last week and hung in until the last 1/2 of the last lap...take into account that i rode out solo as i missed the group
tdb went great
yard looks great
finally have all the broken sprinklers replaced

maybe not so good:
grade 2 sprain to my mcl playing men's league soccer, first game, 20min in, i'm about 8 weeks out
so sick of my job, maybe not so much job but people i work with and the mentality of how things funciton
haven't been racing much due to mcl injury
having a carpet beetle issue
having woolen moth issue
having uppity cat who poops just outside the litter box issue

onto projecto:
so a couple weeks ago i got on a little bender to find a classic old schwinn to restore.  with some looking around and meeting some very interesting people i found a bit of a junk show bike on ksl

now those are the pics posted on the seller's ad and yes those are road bars that have been turned upside down, schwinn no less.  so i went and took a look at this $275 bike at a yard sale and met the seller who didn't have a clue other than what "the bike guy" told him (and "the bike guy" is a whole other story which includes some serious crack and meth usage...)  so what i'm saying is that he was told he had a bike that was plated in gold and everything on it was worth extravagant amounts of money....just a little miss information he was given..  so i took it for a ride, ho hummed around, pointed out some things that needed to be done, asked if he had the original wheels/tires/bar (no).  he asked what i would offer and i continued to ho hum...he said how about 200, eek...pass...then 150..  i said that sounds alright but 100 sounds better his re: but 150 is fair...i said maybe with all the original parts but it's going to be a mess to track them down and cost some $$ to do so..  so he gruffed and took 100...and yay i was now the new owner of a schwinn typhoon cruiser bike.  i loaded into the back of the subie, made dogger sit in the front on the floor and drove it home.

schwinn typhoon was released as a middleweight cruiser bike and they were mass produced....so don't have much value other than they are fun, classy and i needed a little project as to not strangle people i work with.

the day before i took a trip to

the recycled bike, they are located on 1460E 3300S.  kind of a little hole in the wall place with, shall we say, an interesting staff...  i took a look through the piles of bikes, and i do mean piles, spoke with one of the brothers (t-mo, matt is the other) that run the shop about prices (a little spendy but if i didn't have the know how i would have paid the extra $)

this is a pic someone else took and posted, and it doesn't exactly represent what you might find upon visiting but it looks neat and i like black and white....so

so back to the day i picked up the schwinn, after i got it home, unloaded it, got the "updated" wheels, road bars and a couple other things off i took a trip to recycled bike again to see if i could get a wheelset and a handlebar..  no luck on wheels, but i did get a handlebar.

next i started cruising ebay for a set of wheels, ended up with this set of s7's with original westwind tires

now i haven't had a chance to dig into them, but they were stated to be coaster brake only, i have a feeling they might be a 2 speed kickback....won't know for sure till i open them up.

i stripped the bike down (finally got to use that park ks-1 kickstand puller, interesting tool now i'm glad i own it), here's a couple up close pics

and now it's at some random paint shop getting sand blasted and powder coated, should be done in a couple weeks.

in the mean time i am steel wooling and pollishing the crapola out of the parts i pulled off, they are in need of some serious love to get their shine back, esp the fenders....eek...  i don't know how many pics i'll snap as i go and if i do i don't know how many i'll post so here are some pics of what it will prob look like when i get it all finished up:

**i did a little research on the frame number and found the typhoon i am restoring was made march 1974 and had a original sale price of just under $60, not a great investment piece but i'm doing this for fun and for something to ride around the park or to epic...and if nothing else it will look super cool when it's finished up.  i'll post pics of that for sure.