Since we are going to build a bike, not a motor bike first, I guess this is the place to start.

I bought my first bike at salvation army. It was the suicide bike which threw my old butt into the side of the neighbors house. Thank God it was brick not aluminum siding.

Then I bought two bikes on Craig's list, One of which was a big red huffy cruiser that I have two electric motors hanging on. I haven't ridden it in a while either. Hummmmm. And the other is the sissy schwinn now laying in parts on my shop floor. All over my shop floor actually.

But the last few that I bought, I bought from the thrift store here. It seems not only do they sell bikes of dubious quality inexpensively, but the sell one or two in pretty good shaped. My biggest problem not is checking to get the right one. The Transylvainia chopper was made from a cruiser, a girl's twenty incher, and parts from the huge mountain bike. All three together cost less than $25. That is not to say I don't have a ten dollar chain and a eight dollar mirror, and a ten dollar tail light that has never been turned on.

All that is to explain that today I'm going to go looking for a new frame to start with. I'll take some shots of the thrift store bike rack and the bikes there.

Buy the way, i am about out of bike parts since I junked out and threw away a lot of parts last week. So I'll try to let you guys follow along with the build so you can see exactly what goes into a Transylvania bike.

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