The ridiculous pink fixie, part 1.

A few months back, I bought a rusty old (1982) Schwinn Traveler frame from the Bikerowave for $20. It looked like this:



Then, after doing the math, I put it on the shelf for a while and bought a fixed gear from bikesdirect.com

But the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to build a bike from the frame up, so when Bikerowave got a group together in November for a powdercoating trip, I thought this would be a good time to get started, so I dremeled off/filed down the braze-ons (because I don't like them on fixed gear bikes, and it's not like there's going to be a shortage of old high-ten Schwinn frames any time soon, so the collectors have plent of of other options), and sent it off to the powdercoaters for a delightful shade of bright pink.

I chose pink because pink brings joy and hilarity by its very appearance, as Pinkman has proven.
(I used to see this guy when I went to Berkeley, and he's a bringer of joy to the general public.)



Then someone sent me a link to the PedalID site where you can design your own bikes, and I started with this:



Of course, since we went to an industrial powdercoaters out in El Monte, they didn't have "Telemagenta" in stock. Neither did their distributor. So they had to have it shipped in from out of state.

So, in the weeks it took for them to locate the right color, I ended up screwing around on Pedal ID even more, and ended up with this:



That looked pretty cool, so I ordered up the necessary parts to make it a reality.

We'll see how that turned out in the next post.