Dan Burkhart 

In April, I presented my grand daughter a new bike for her 6th birthday. She's had a bike for the last couple of years, but she had out grown it,so it was time for a new one. My son, her Dad, taught her to ride it without training wheels, and she's been having a blast on it.
So, for my son's birthday in May, I built him a new bike so he could ride the bike paths with her.



But, I couldn't help thinking this machine needed a name, so I took a bit of license with a much vaunted Canadian bike brand and came up with...



I went for a ride today with my son and grand daughter, and had a terrific time.

doctor j

You're a great Pop and GrandPop and imaginative to boot. Well done!

Banded Krait

+1!!!

Retro Grouch 

Paint, decal, or vinyl sticker?

Dan Burkhart 

Vinyl graphics like those used for vehicle lettering. I let the lady at the sign shop that made the lettering apply it for me just to be sure it was done right.

lhbernhardt

I've always wanted to have a set of frame decals made up. The downtube sticker would say "Guevara" in block lettering, the same type style as Masi. The head badge would be a diamond (a la Merckx circa 70's) inset with the famous monochrome picture of Che Guevara. The top tube would have the model name: "Modelo Che," and the seat tube would have two bands: a red/white/blue band inscribed "Cuba Libre 1957" and not sure yet what the other band would say. Kind of a tongue-in-cheek political statement that would give away the rider's age...

Luis

nuttygrandma

Wonderful and they both look like they are enjoying your generous work!!!

Jamesw2

Nice bike! Reflective tires ,fenders and rear rack. Spiffy !

qcpmsame 

What a great thing for a grandpa to do! Time with our families is my #1 goal in life.

Bill

jmccain

Thant's pretty cool and I'm a cervelo owner. You should have put an umlaut over the e. That would have been truly twisted.

Years ago I worked with a guy in a bike shop that had a t-shirt made up with the Campagnolo world logo, but said Ashtabula instead. That was wicked funny to me.

Dan Burkhart 

Go back to post one and take another look.

jmccain

That's not an umlaut...

But nevermind, what you did was cool.

Dan Burkhart 

Oh, OK, I thought maybe you were just using another word for an accent. Now you made me go look it up and further my education. Thanks for that.

qcpmsame 

Dan,
Umlat are the two dots over a vowel in Germanic languages as well as some others. My laptop won't allow me to demonstrate. I am sure someone will reply with an example.

Bill

Dan Burkhart 

Thanks. I learned that when I went searching. Actually, I think it was more of a reminder. One of those things that I once knew, and since forgotten. Happens a lot at this age.

Bikey Mikey

AltKey+0228 = ä

AltKey+0235 = ë

AltKey+0239 = ï

AltKey+0246 = ö

AltKey+0252 = ü

AltKey+0255 = ÿ

But, if he's simulating Cervélo then wouldn't he be correct with they way he has it illustrated? Isn't Cervélo a Canadian company?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerv%C3%A9lo

https://www.cervelo.com/en_us/

I know it's owned by a dutch company, but they still use é in their logo.

Retro Grouch 

Probably a smart move. The hard thing is making sure the sticker is parallel with the tube. Since the tube is round there really isn't any place to measure from.

qcpmsame 

They use the accent mark because they are French-Canadian, located in Quebec. Vroomen and White are up there, I heard that one of them was going to work on other things.

Mikey, those ALT- XXX key stroke letters and symbols don't work for my laptop, I guess a new OS is upcoming. Probably going Apple this time. thanks for the info though.

SuperDave

Wowser. She has guts, confidence and real skill to have applied it from that direction. I worked in that industry for a decade, and the prevailing wisdom is to always apply around a curve, rather than against it. Far too many chances for things to go wrong. She's good.

teachme

That really is a nice gift! What a great thing to do... Very nice!

Bikey Mikey

Well, it's not your OS. These work with 98, ME, XP, Vista, W7...probably even 95. Anyway, it's likely because you don't have a numeric keypad like a full fledged keyboard with number-lock engaged. You can get symbols also by copying them. Hit the WindowsKey+R which will open up the Run dialog box and type charmap. This with bring up the character map and can click on a letter, choose Select, and click Copy. If you would find it difficult to remember the command, in XP, click on Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and right-click Character Map and choose Send To and click on Desktop(create shortcut), or you could Pin to Start Menu.

Back to our regularly scheduled program:

You're a good Grandpa Dan.

JanMM

What you did is infinitely better than CerMixaLot.

curbtender

To thumbs up and a Happy Fathers day to you.

Dan Burkhart 

Today, my son told me Ella, that's my grand daughter, has been asking when we can go biking again. Sounds like I've given her the bug.

Dan Burkhart 

Now you've made me very glad I did not attempt it myself.