finally we had a nice, sunny, bright day in halifax (the first since i've been home!) that called for me to bust out the banana bike and take a ride around halifax city. it clearly is also a much more convenient way to get to work...
anyways i picked this bike up for $50 at a buy & sell place in the strip mall right by the bridge in dartmouth. imagine, a beautiful retro cruiser by shwinn for $50. i was a very very happy girl. i have always wanted to have a bright yellow bike, so this was my new project! so i took the navy blue and white stripe bike home, quickly disassembled everything and then, quickly found that the bike's past owner was very cruel to it indeed!
the spokes and brakes and other parts were almost completely rusted out! what looked like shiny silver mudguards and handle bars were cleverly disguised rusted out chrome!
anyways, i think i, (with some help from my friend derek when i went back on the boat for a few weeks) did a fine job restoring it to its former beauty.
i grinded down the silver spray-painted rusty layers to reveal slightly blemished but more or less sparkling chrome! yay. and the yellow makes me happy, even on gloomy haligonian days. ^_^ (by the way, the yellow cardigan was an accident!)
nick also wanted to make his first appearance on the blog. he was totally showing off.
a lovely halie selassie pin that an enthusiastic rastafari gave me in st lucia last winter.
what a fantastic day in halifax!
That bike looks it's itching for a ride in Point Pleasant Park. Say some time next week.
ReplyDeleteAGREED! lets do it!!
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