The (De)Evolution Of A Bike

While it was raining the past few days I’ve been tinkering with a bike. Thought I’d share how its changed over the years.

I got this Huffy for free many years ago through some sort of rewards program at work.

As I received the bike.
Built up out of the box.

At some point in time I repainted and reconfigured it for my Dad to ride.

As Dad rode it.

He rode it on a few rides with us but tired of it being in the way at his house and gave it back. I then repainted and rebuilt it for me.

Built up for me.

I later convinced Nova she needed a klunker style bike and built it up for her. It went through several changes while she had it.

When first built for Nova.

She never really liked the bike (other than the color) and gave it back to me. Over the past couple of days I ratted it out. I stripped it down and gave it a faux patina. I built it back up with parts I had and added a few of my “road finds” to it which include… the rear fender a garden shovel, the front fender I believe is a heat shield off a motorcycle, the tank plate which is some wing looking piece of metal and the bungee cord.

I even added a road find (safety orange pennant) while riding it for the first time yesterday.

So that was fun and kept me occupied over a couple of rainy days. I’m sure I’ll tire of the bike, tear it down and stash it away to be rebuilt differently at some future time.