Grape is gone

Alas my little grape is gone. It was a little bit of a "do" but the end result was what I wanted and more! The story is, this dude emails me in the morning and wants me to call him about grape. I finished off my coffee and gave him a ring. A meeting was planned and off were we.... me and grape. I got to said meeting area, went to Tim's and got more coffee, hung out at the parking lot for a bit and gave him a call after 20 or so. Dude said his ride is a late and asked if I could go to his place, a little of the hmmmmm at first but planned a second meeting close to his place and an added forty for my travels. So I arrived at said meeting place the second and saw a dude sitting close to the entrance but called dude anyway, it was him and it was all good. Got some props from some BMX kids about grape and dude was even happier. A sale was made with no haggling and extra cash for delivery.... I wish every sale was like this. Had no trouble getting home and had a story for the wife. It's cool when it all comes together like this sale, nice bike, nice dude, nice day but it would be nicer to have a store.

I am working on probably the last bike for 2009. It will be a Big Boy BMX. If you have checked out the site you may have seen my BB that I built for testing, it is white and chrome. It rides real nice and is lighter than I thought it would be, so I decided to build one for the public. It has been powder coated black and will have a 70's BMX vibe to it. I am still waiting for parts but they should be here soon.

Grape is back

I pulled Grape from the CL listings for a while. I was getting some rude emails and stunningly bad offers. But I have just re-listed due to buying snow tires yesterday. Why snow tires you ask? Where I live they don't plow and I was stuck in my drive way for weeks last year and when I did get out I was stuck every 10 feet after that. But not this year! Not only did I get snow flake rated tires but they are studded too! But I now have to make money so my groovy 70's bike is back up for sale. :(

It's Grrrrrape?

The latest bike for sale is an old Simpsons Sears cantilever frame bike with 24" wheels, ape hangers, banana seat and a 5 speed with a stick shift! Both my wife and I thought it wouldn't last one hour and someone would be here throwing money at me. But it's the total opposite, I've had two people want it. One tried a little to see it but it didn't work out. The other person's A.D.D. must have kicked in and he never got back to me. That's two people out of the 1258 people that have looked at it... yes I keep a counter. I know it's October, not exactly the bike buying time of year but this bike is awesome. I got it in trade for a BMX bike from the original owner. It needed allot of help, the gears didn't work, the shifter looked like it had never worked, the brake was an ornament, the bars were bent and it was dirty. I fixed the shifter, got the gears working and cleaned and lubed all of the drive train. I replaced the bent bars, straightened and tensioned the wheels, installed good brakes on the front and back with new levers,cables and pads. Cleaned the whole thing and found some grips that match the sidewalls. The total cost was around $300 but it is fall and I'm trying to build some equity for hopefully some big news soon. So I am currently asking $200 but after writing this I think I'll raise the price....HAHA.