Tony01
Well-Known Member
Yep, big bicycle show, lots of custom bikes and most of them shiny. Getting the pics ready for you guys as we speak. I saw some videos of the ones from years before so I expected to see an entire block of motorized bikes, but was disappointed to find that there were only half a dozen including mine.. or less..
The show was primarily dominated by fatbike stretch cruisers. Some REALLY stretching it. Didn't see too many diamond framed bikes. Among the motorized bikes, there was ONE guy with a Whizzer motor and drive and I guess the frame was custom, ONE guy with a CG 2-stroke cafe styled bike, TWO GUYS with 212cc predator bikes, which had combined mini-bike and bicycle components to create these stretched lowrider motorized bikes (although they pretty much looked like minibikes with stretch bicycle frames, wheels, and forks), and ONE electric bike.. some crazy super stretch bike with a linkage going from the handlebar to the wheel headset up front. And then there was me, ONE guy with an all-American bike, Briggs and Schwinn.
The entry was $5 cash only, but I did not have cash, so they let me in for free. Apparently to enter a bike it was an additional $5, which I also did not have, and so did not enter my bike.
Although most bikes there generally followed the same principle, two wheels, pedals, most of them stretched and lowered, there were several bikes with some innovating features. A lot of suspension mods. Forks, seat shocks, even one bicycle with a softail rear. One guy had all the above, plus rim disc brakes on his stretch lowrider.. he had said that wheel trueness is the most important, as the spoked wheels if out of true would affect disc alignment. Ok!! on to the pics.
custom built Whizzer. This bike is built by a member of the Others Bicycle Club in San Jose.
The show was primarily dominated by fatbike stretch cruisers. Some REALLY stretching it. Didn't see too many diamond framed bikes. Among the motorized bikes, there was ONE guy with a Whizzer motor and drive and I guess the frame was custom, ONE guy with a CG 2-stroke cafe styled bike, TWO GUYS with 212cc predator bikes, which had combined mini-bike and bicycle components to create these stretched lowrider motorized bikes (although they pretty much looked like minibikes with stretch bicycle frames, wheels, and forks), and ONE electric bike.. some crazy super stretch bike with a linkage going from the handlebar to the wheel headset up front. And then there was me, ONE guy with an all-American bike, Briggs and Schwinn.
The entry was $5 cash only, but I did not have cash, so they let me in for free. Apparently to enter a bike it was an additional $5, which I also did not have, and so did not enter my bike.
Although most bikes there generally followed the same principle, two wheels, pedals, most of them stretched and lowered, there were several bikes with some innovating features. A lot of suspension mods. Forks, seat shocks, even one bicycle with a softail rear. One guy had all the above, plus rim disc brakes on his stretch lowrider.. he had said that wheel trueness is the most important, as the spoked wheels if out of true would affect disc alignment. Ok!! on to the pics.
custom built Whizzer. This bike is built by a member of the Others Bicycle Club in San Jose.
so sad as it may be... This will be the last time I go to a bicycle show; the next one will be a motorcycle/car thing. 
a whole thirty miles (I actually live northwest a couple miles from Apple HQ). Had one breakdown, dang BGF throttle cable broke near he plug inside my throttle, had to take out the metal guide tube to give me more cable so I could just tie it in a knot. Well I was able to drive the bike the remaining 28mi to the show and back, with an average speed of 30mph and gas mileage of 88mpg.
