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2012 Trek Wasabi
Picked up this bike for my wife from an ad on Facebook Marketplace. It was probably a little over priced at $130 but I think it will clean up and make a nice casual low-mileage cruiser. I'm going to repaint the fenders, polish and touch up the frame and replace some rusted bolts with stainless.. It
ll also need new pedals and hand grips, new tires and a lube job on the bearings. We took it out for a short ride today and she loved it.
From Marketplace ad
Fenders off. I like it like this but she wants fenders.
Love the name.
ll also need new pedals and hand grips, new tires and a lube job on the bearings. We took it out for a short ride today and she loved it.
From Marketplace ad
Fenders off. I like it like this but she wants fenders.
Love the name.
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Worth a million (metaphorically) if your wife loves it, and well worth $130. I'd hate to tell you how much I spent in $ and time to construct a bike my wife didn't like.
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Picked up this bike for my wife from an ad on Facebook Marketplace. It was probably a little over priced at $130 but I think it will clean up and make a nice casual low-mileage cruiser. I'm going to repaint the fenders, polish and touch up the frame and replace some rusted bolts with stainless.. It
ll also need new pedals and hand grips, new tires and a lube job on the bearings. We took it out for a short ride today and she loved it.
From Marketplace ad
Fenders off. I like it like this but she wants fenders.
Love the name.
ll also need new pedals and hand grips, new tires and a lube job on the bearings. We took it out for a short ride today and she loved it.
From Marketplace ad
Fenders off. I like it like this but she wants fenders.
Love the name.
DO NOT paint the fenders.
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Schweinhund I must ask why you say do NOT paint the fenders. Actually I plan to keep the graphics and repaint the worn and rusted areas with the same color. Appreciate your input. Thank you.
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Picked up this bike for my wife from an ad on Facebook Marketplace. It was probably a little over priced at $130 but I think it will clean up and make a nice casual low-mileage cruiser. I'm going to repaint the fenders, polish and touch up the frame and replace some rusted bolts with stainless.. It
ll also need new pedals and hand grips, new tires and a lube job on the bearings. We took it out for a short ride today and she loved it.
From Marketplace ad
Fenders off. I like it like this but she wants fenders.
Love the name.
ll also need new pedals and hand grips, new tires and a lube job on the bearings. We took it out for a short ride today and she loved it.
From Marketplace ad
Fenders off. I like it like this but she wants fenders.
Love the name.
Trek Pure 3-speed 2011 or 12
County Dock 2022, Trek Wasabi & Townie 3i
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That's cool Mr. Pickem. My wife's Trek Wasabi, as of this week, has new tires/tubes and painted fenders (masked off and clear coated the graphics). All the rusted nuts, bolts and wahers I replaced with stainless. It appears this bike was truly a beach cruiser. Salt had eaten anything not aluminum or stainless. 😎
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Old clunker dressed up to look like 80s BMX Thruster...carbon trp lever, fuzik carbon seat with titanium rails, lock on grips, haro bars, new cable & chain and kenda tires
Clunker with mixed parts
Clunker with mixed parts
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Deciding what to do with my Royce Union RHT conversion,...
It's a wonderful project bike (certain parts are definitely very low quality), but the pedals (old style rat traps - ouch!), boat anchor handlebars, amazingly crappy stem, decent seat, and meh seatpost all had to go before my first ride, Now it has RockBros pedals, an adjustable handlepost, a squishy seat, zoom suspension seatpost, and different handlebars (soon to be swapped for a 90mm riser bar, too low and killin' my wrists). It still needs the brakes and derailleur tuned up a bit (hydraulic disc brakes, Shimano SLX 2x11 gearing - definitely overkill), and the wonky suspension fork (Suntour XCT w/100mm travel) is decent, but only has preload, and no lockout. Still,...it'll make a wonderful cruiser for me, once I get it spec'd to my liking.
As for the tires, I'm probably swapping the Kenda Small Block 8 tires for my Schwalbe Big Bens. The Kenda's are solid for riding the sandy backroad areas by my house, but I'll most likely be riding more paved areas. These tires aren't the quietest either. It sounds like a chainsaw is following me. LoL! If anyone lives out on Long Island HIT ME UP! I'll be giving em' away. No sense in wasting good tires.
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It's a wonderful project bike (certain parts are definitely very low quality), but the pedals (old style rat traps - ouch!), boat anchor handlebars, amazingly crappy stem, decent seat, and meh seatpost all had to go before my first ride, Now it has RockBros pedals, an adjustable handlepost, a squishy seat, zoom suspension seatpost, and different handlebars (soon to be swapped for a 90mm riser bar, too low and killin' my wrists). It still needs the brakes and derailleur tuned up a bit (hydraulic disc brakes, Shimano SLX 2x11 gearing - definitely overkill), and the wonky suspension fork (Suntour XCT w/100mm travel) is decent, but only has preload, and no lockout. Still,...it'll make a wonderful cruiser for me, once I get it spec'd to my liking.
As for the tires, I'm probably swapping the Kenda Small Block 8 tires for my Schwalbe Big Bens. The Kenda's are solid for riding the sandy backroad areas by my house, but I'll most likely be riding more paved areas. These tires aren't the quietest either. It sounds like a chainsaw is following me. LoL! If anyone lives out on Long Island HIT ME UP! I'll be giving em' away. No sense in wasting good tires.
As for the tires, I'm probably swapping the Kenda Small Block 8 tires for my Schwalbe Big Bens. The Kenda's are solid for riding the sandy backroad areas by my house, but I'll most likely be riding more paved areas. These tires aren't the quietest either. It sounds like a chainsaw is following me. LoL! If anyone lives out on Long Island HIT ME UP! I'll be giving em' away. No sense in wasting good tires.
When I was in junior high school about 1973/4 (before I got my new to me redline squareback) I had a royce union bmx bike with a shock in the middle. That thing was launched, ghost ridden, purposely crashed into a Porsche (hit me and think you can get away?)
and never so much as bent a wheel. Wish I would have kept it.
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Awesome build, but I think thats been upgraded to the point that it's not really a cruiser anymore.
When I was in junior high school about 1973/4 (before I got my new to me redline squareback) I had a royce union bmx bike with a shock in the middle. That thing was launched, ghost ridden, purposely crashed into a Porsche (hit me and think you can get away?)
and never so much as bent a wheel. Wish I would have kept it.
When I was in junior high school about 1973/4 (before I got my new to me redline squareback) I had a royce union bmx bike with a shock in the middle. That thing was launched, ghost ridden, purposely crashed into a Porsche (hit me and think you can get away?)
and never so much as bent a wheel. Wish I would have kept it.
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Is it a cruiser? Have I posted it here already? I dunno, so here it is maybe again.
It started out as a bare frame and went through a bunch of iterations before it was "finished".
Here's another one I thikn has been updated since posting here.
The derailluer is simply a chain tensioner, it's a 5 speed IGH Sturmey hub with drum brake, which means the brake on the frame is just to hide the bosses.
It started out as a bare frame and went through a bunch of iterations before it was "finished".
Here's another one I thikn has been updated since posting here.
The derailluer is simply a chain tensioner, it's a 5 speed IGH Sturmey hub with drum brake, which means the brake on the frame is just to hide the bosses.
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With 40mm riser MTB handlebar and adjustable stem,...
With NC-17 Trekking Handlebar and higher adjustable stem (which I had on another bike),...
This totally changes the riding position for me, allowing an upright sitting position. The riser MTB bar didn't work for me.
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Can you post details of the cranks?
I picked up another cruiser just to turn it into a klunker and am looking at ideas.