"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in biking, Hercules, huffy, Other Bike Stuff, Photo entries on Dec 31st, 2009
A few years ago, I acquired this old English 3-speed from Brian Chasm. I think I gave him some homebrew for it. He’d picked it up at a yard sale, but for whatever reason he and Hercules didn’t ultimately get along. He said he’d just as soon as I had Hercules so long as I […]
Posted in huffy, Imports from old blogs on Jul 30th, 2006
15 years ago, I was a 13-year-old (almost 14-year-old) kid who’d been saving up birthday money, babysitting money, and any other cash that came my way because I wanted a new bicycle, by golly. I’d been alternating between riding an outgrown stingray-knockoff (20-inch wheels) and an oversized Schwinn Continental, neither of which was a satisfactory […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, huffy, Imports from old blogs, Oh, for fuck's sake, Utter Silliness on Jun 13th, 2005
I’m going to reclaim my old Huffy from my parents’ house sometime this summer and turn it into an art-bike. What my idea is, is to strip it down and paint it metallic green. I wanna cover the seat in green faux snakeskin, and put eyes (possibly clear blinky lights with “googly eyes” glued in […]