That was then...this is now. I am proud to say that I finally had someone come by and pickup an item they said they wanted!!! I listed my old hiawatha bike
that has been sitting on the back porch blocking our access to the basement forEVER. This bike has been around with me since ~ 1999, and, believe it or not has seen some decent mileage. I picked it up in Walnut Iowa on a random Sunday morning stop over, driving back from Des Moines. It needed some work, and I vowed I'd restore it! Of course I didn't. I did ride it a lot though. The longest I ever went was about 20 miles on it, and I thought my ass & knees were going to fall off it hurt so much. The seat was bent and very hard, and the cranks were like 160mm long, with a seatpost of about 10mm...so my knees were pracitcally hitting me in the nose. Couple that with every single bolt being loose, the incessant rattling, and the semi-functional coaster brake, and you've got a bicycle that's cool lookng, but very sketchy to ride! I hadn't ridden it in a very long time since restoring my old Stumpjumper frame to a single speed, so, it just sat there. I thought about selling it, but can't find a lick of information about the bike/company online. Thus, I decided to just give it away. Tyler Stans from Luxury Lowrider picked 'er up and is going to restore it. Good for him! He does some very impressive work, and can restore a turd to a gold crown in looking at his before/after pics on his website. I could care less about the bike, honestly, but I'm psyched someone came through
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