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bryanhayn
03-21-08, 10:45 PM
don't you agree?
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i133/ryanhayn/IMG_1448.jpg
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i133/ryanhayn/IMG_1447.jpg
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i133/ryanhayn/IMG_1446.jpg
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i133/ryanhayn/IMG_1445.jpg

abeyance
03-21-08, 10:52 PM
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=274916
orangepaint
03-21-08, 11:06 PM
^predictable play sir^

dayvan cowboy
03-22-08, 01:03 AM
i'd roll around town on that.
kidtwisty
03-22-08, 02:18 AM
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=274916

hahahahahhahahahaha
best first reply evar.
mastershake916
03-22-08, 03:14 AM
awesome.
streetlightpoet
03-22-08, 06:22 AM
I'm planning on getting my columbia 3 speed that is very similar back on road soon. We have right around 11-ty billion of those free spirits at our shop for our refugee bike program.
making
03-22-08, 06:25 AM
I have my Dad's "Free Spirit" out in the garage.
shapelike
03-22-08, 07:39 AM
Feel free to take the shipping caps off the axles as some point.
jet sanchEz
03-22-08, 08:24 AM
It looks great, better than most of the conversions I have seen and is probably better put-together than most of them too. This is my mom's old Raleigh:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j103/jetsanchEz/Trip4.jpg
bonechilling
03-22-08, 08:44 AM
No offense to your grandpa's or anything, but an old Sears-sold Free Spirit bike is hardly worth mentioning. If it were a Phillips, or Schwinn, or Raleigh (like the one above), I'd be impressed.
vocaltest
03-22-08, 08:49 AM
fixed gear skids while the grandchild is buckled into that carseat looking thing in the back.
crushkilldstroy
03-22-08, 09:00 AM
No offense to your grandpa's or anything, but an old Sears-sold Free Spirit bike is hardly worth mentioning. If it were a Phillips, or Schwinn, or Raleigh (like the one above), I'd be impressed.

I didn't want to say anything, but yeah. I could hit the local thrift stores and probably get you 2 of these by the end of the day.
I_luv_hooters
03-22-08, 09:09 AM
huh??? why did you even snap pictures of this bike?
Dumpstergrub@gm
03-22-08, 09:14 AM
wocca wocca
sfcrossrider
03-22-08, 09:32 AM
Dude, my mom has an old free spirit. :beer:
bryanhayn
03-22-08, 04:37 PM
yah, it was a poor joke. i just posted pics because it's sooo ****ty lookin'...and i was bored.
making
03-22-08, 04:59 PM
My Dad thought his free spirit was the greatest. so lay off.
Zombie Carl
03-22-08, 05:14 PM
My Dad thought his free spirit was the greatest. so lay off.

Sounds like he was wrong.
humancongereel
03-22-08, 08:18 PM
I didn't want to say anything, but yeah. I could hit the local thrift stores and probably get you 2 of these by the end of the day.

only 2?
crushkilldstroy
03-22-08, 08:35 PM
only 2?

I should be more specific. I could get you 2 in that color. I could get you another 4 or 5 in that blueish color.
humancongereel
03-22-08, 10:43 PM
oh, okay. that seems less incredibly wrong than that first thing you said.
kemmer
03-23-08, 11:53 AM
I think this is a cool thread. Post your parents' or grandparents' bikes!
SuperVillain
03-23-08, 12:12 PM
My grandpa had a nice Raleigh touring bike, which he gave to my uncle. If he still has it I may attempt to acquire it next time I'm back in my hometown.

My parents each had mid-80s Peugeot road bikes. My dad sold his (blue) for like $20 at a garage sale and my mom threw hers (maroon, mixte) away because some of the chrome hardware was getting rusty. (wtf?!) I was pissed about it for years until one of my professors gave me this:

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/drulecue/Peugeot%20Triathlon/9059ea21.jpg

I consider it a worthy replacement.
Sixty Fiver
03-23-08, 12:20 PM
I love the old Free Spirit and if you are bored, you should really take a little time and polish the hell out of that bike for him.

Sears never made their own bikes so contracted out to Raleigh, CCM, and even Austro Daimler / Puch to build bikes for them... my friend has a fixed gear that is built on an Austro Daimler built 531 Free Spirit. I insisted that he keep the Free Spirit decal so people would know they just got dropped by a "crappy" department store road bike.

I don't need no stinking grandparents...

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/78Superbe3.jpg
1978 Raleigh Superbe

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/CCM1.jpg
1933 CCM - This could have belonged to my great grandparents.

Seriously... I miss my grandparents a great deal.
humancongereel
03-23-08, 12:25 PM
My grandpa had a nice Raleigh touring bike, which he gave to my uncle. If he still has it I may attempt to acquire it next time I'm back in my hometown.

My parents each had mid-80s Peugeot road bikes. My dad sold his (blue) for like $20 at a garage sale and my mom threw hers (maroon, mixte) away because some of the chrome hardware was getting rusty. (wtf?!) I was pissed about it for years until one of my professors gave me this:

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/drulecue/Peugeot%20Triathlon/9059ea21.jpg

I consider it a worthy replacement.

****. nice bike.