Rat Rod Bike Buildoff #6

May 5th, 2011 mattyfu

While I am doubtful to participate due to work and school wasting taking up all my time I’d just like to point out to anyone who may be reading that the Rat Rod Bike Buildoff #6 has begun over at Rat Rod Bikes. While there are many cycling and bike building forums out there I enjoy RRB the most because it’s really friendly and laid back and for the most part it’s not about who can buy the nicest cutting edge components and slap them together it’s more about finding something in rough shape and turning it into something that looks cool but is still meant to be ridden. While reading the project logs building up to the final vote might not be for everyone I think that browsing through the finished bikes is something most people will get a kick out off, check out the previous gallery of finalists here.

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Adding to the stable – 1945 Westfield Columbia Compax Paratrooper

April 8th, 2011 mattyfu

Here’s my new oldest bike. It’s a skiptooth 1945 Westfield Columbia Paratrooper. I had it shipped from the states so it wasn’t cheap but it was just too cool to pass up! It comes apart into 2 pieces and the handlebars fold down. It was originally designed this way so that it can be strapped to a paratrooper jumping out of a plane, how cool is that? The design was popular even after the war so they kept producing them and that’s what mine is. Check out the National Bicycle History Archive of America for their cool article on this bike.

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Still kickin

January 26th, 2009 mattyfu

I’m still alive. I’d lost my nice camera after a show and so I held out as long as I could on buying a new one hoping that someone would call my phone number that is on a sticker on it but it hasn’t turned up and as a side note the EPS lost and found system is stuck in the 70′s (it’s a duotang with what has been returned to that station only, not kidding.). But anyways I have a couple websites to share. One related to camera losing, it’s a blog called Found Camera’s and Orphaned Pictures where if say you found a Sony DSC-H3 digital camera when you got into a yellowcab in Edmonton you would grab the pictures off the memory card and send some of them to that website and they will post a entry for the owner to hopefully one day find. It’s also neat to just look at strangers pictures. The other one is the blog of a rad local cab driver who I met the other day, it’s called TaxiTalk it has lots of interesting stories and insights.

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Status Update

June 2nd, 2008 mattyfu

I got the site set up and more or less running how I’d like it. I put up and past-dated maybe half (probably less) of the old galleries. I can’t seem to find the resized versions but I know I have them somewhere. I’ll track them down and post them some other day though. Slowly but surely.

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Getting going

May 9th, 2008 mattyfu

Okay so I’ve been farting around with this for awhile. Tried probably 9 different wordpress gallery plugins and I think I finally have a simple and fast set up going. I’m using the Image Post Wizard plugin with a couple little modifications and it’s by far the fastest and easiest to use of the bunch I tried. So now I’m going to start getting some of the old galleries back up in there new format! I might backdate the older ones so that it’s easier to browse by actual date of the shows but I’m not entirely sure yet.

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Where’d everything go?

April 14th, 2008 mattyfu

The photo gallery got hacked so I had to take it down. And I had a cold and was on lots of delicious medicine so I thought it would be a good idea to try to streamline this old hunk-o-whatever. So y’know…it might be awhile before I get it set up. Sorry?

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