Hermskii wrote on Feb 17^th, 2012 at 1:36am:

He's building that bike!

Yeah, how's your back Helen?

Have them do it both with and without contrast. Also and also very important: Stay as still as you can during the long MRI scanning process. It will make youre film much more clear for the reader. Sorry it is still bugging you.

Setup your PC on you like the BORG so you can walk all arounf and do stuff while still being wired in! LOL. No Helen. NO! I was just kidding. Don't do that! It is what we are slowly coming to though.

Though it is a mountain bike, I will be putting slicks on it (bald or fast tires), and riding it up paved hills for my cardio. My back probably has to get about 50% better before I could do this kind of riding.

I had been planning this build since summer of 2011 (before my back got bad). Even after my bad got hurt, I still kept ordering parts because hey who knew the back would be this bad?

So at this stage it has become a goal to get better so I can ride the thing when it's ready.

I hope you feel better soon.  It's hard to enjoy life being in such pain. Take care.

A couple of things on that front. I found the perfect frame a couple of weeks ago on ebay, so I'm going to use it instead of the red one in the picture. Waiting for that to get here. Also just yesterday I realized I have the wrong cranks. I got these off ebay also, I went back and looked at the posting, the seller has the wrong picture up, so I bought them based off the picture. I emailed him yesterday asking for a swap.

What's with all of those shoe boxes Helen? What in them Helen? My wife has a lot of shoe boxes Helen.

So in the last picture of the bike you posted where the cranks will be it looks almost like it's unpainted metal. I had to go back and forth between pictures to compare.

The closest thing to that bike that I ever has was  Huffy Pro-Thunder. I loved it to death. All my friends had Schwinns and Mongooses. I had a Huffy but was still a better rider than most.

OMG! I found 1 picture of it or at least the same thing that I had.

Awesome pic of the bike 

Did a scan of mine. Rode it into the ground. Got it when I was 13, rode it until I was 19 even though my knees hit the handle bars then lol. I called her "the Sphinx"   

Hermskii wrote on Mar 9^th, 2012 at 2:41am:


Behold the bicycle shop. The boxes hold parts, you can kinda see my labels on the boxes. They read Daily Ride, Bits N Bobs, Vintage, NOS (new old stock), and New. What's in your wife's shoe boxes?

eyikes.