Busy nocturne at Chez Orange with fun pics of my crap etc.

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Cool bike Steve. What year is it? On Fleabay the Rollfast bikes go for some good money. I was an avid bike rider for a couple of decades and still have a couple of them in the garage but need to get off my duff and get rolling. Need to lose some weight. 12 ounce curls aren't doing it.

Great photos and you did a nice job with the upgrades - will you be tooling around town on this? A few more gears would be cool but then it wouldn't be vintage.

Thanks for the updates!

Early-mid 1950s as best as I can tell, shares many features with the Roamer model and the same body as the Hopalong Cassidy.

It's a daily driver and I rode to karaoke last night on it.

 

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A FAMILY PORTAIT!

My Schwinn and Rolfast in their current state...more pictures of the setups in the house are forthcoming!

 

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The design for the Honda saddlebags mount on my Schwinn!

Using partially cut away paperboy baskets!

 

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Get ready for a marathon!

Did a lot this weekend!

Started to put the rack cabinet together...

Got the decals for my Rollfast and put the seat tube decal on, the triangle ibe is for later when the rack cover is finished and installed...

Working on a headphone stand made of discarded joists and dowels with a flat end cut and painted silver on a black stand...

Almost done with the shelves...

Treated the rust on my table stand and painted it en route to being a satellite dish stand (not shown yet)...

 

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Set number ONE...

 

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The other piece of joist becomes a cradle for the DJ mixer...

 

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More in a sec...

 

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Tonight's wrapup!

 

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I went ahead and mowed the lawn and made a t-bone and ranch beans with mesquite and lime marinade, chili powder and other spices.

Nice day all in all!

 

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So far...

I've finished the HEADPHONE side of my headphone/cable hander stand.

 

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Nice job - you have quite the collection of headphones.

 

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A lot of plugs and cables need repair or replacement though...

Koss Phase/2

Pioneer SE-30, SE-50

Panasonic EAH-20

Sony MDR-XD100 and MDR-XD200

Not shown:

Sony MDR-R118 (folding walkman pair)

 

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So what do you use as replacement wiring/connectors?

 

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Nothing-yet.

I've got a lot of work to do before I get there.

I finished painting the shelves and stand parts before the wind and crap settles today though.

 

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Modifying a shelf in the cabinet to mount my Roland MC-50 Mk II.

 

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I was given an Envision standard aspect LCD computer monitor yesterday and here are some pics of the synth nook as it is evolving...

 

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Something I havn't seen a lot of in a while...



The carpet in the second bedroom/workroom!

 

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And the saddlebags are back from the sign shop!

The ones for my Schwinn from a Honda Aspencade!

 

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Here is the reason I have lower back trouble today!

 

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Unfortunately the CEDs don't fit in that long cabinet or I would move them.

Speaking of moving, and poor seques, yesterday my back was sore but now my sciatic nerve is revolting. Not that it was ever personable or even affable.

Still I continue to work all I can

I sent some gear from the two sheds over with mom yesterday to see if the place over near Boise that reccycles or fixes and sells electronics for charity or whatever could fix them...they weren't goping to get fixed here anytime soon. Nothing anyone specificly gave me to fix or as a gift went away but I filled mom's car trunk and cleared a lot of space.

Just asking: Is the abundance of flies this year an OMEN? Do they know something?

Bonus pics of two of Mama's kittens (the neighbor's mama)...I also think people dump theirs here now and then.