*sings* Fat Girl in Little Shorts!

[smurfalicious]

Okay for the record I know how to get my pedal up, it's just so stinking hard when you've rocked clipless pedals long enough.

Anyway, we went grocery getting tonight and I still love my beasty. Sure my outfit is usually worth more and yeah I probably don't need lycra to run to the grocery store, but I love the ritual. My shoes are nowhere to be found so I miss the clicky clicky around the store but oh well.

I got home just in time too because it's dumping rain, again. Oh well. I brought the beasty inside and told her "You're a tiger, baby, raaaaar!" but she just sat there while I took pics. No comments on seat post location it's freegin stuck there right now and I physically abuse my ta-tas in the drops.


Awwwh yeah baby, you'd pay good money for two tone like that!


The only part of her that's pretty


Lug, lug, lug, lug, lug, lug, la la luuuuuuugs, make the world go 'round.

[lph]

Ok, you're right. That IS an ugly bike

But there is something very charming about something that looks non-descript or ugly but still works well. Everything is a bonus! Our car is like that. So blah I walk past it in the parking lot, but it works, and works and works.

[smurfalicious]

Ok, you're right. That IS an ugly bike

But there is something very charming about something that looks non-descript or ugly but still works well. Everything is a bonus! Our car is like that. So blah I walk past it in the parking lot, but it works, and works and works.

I told yall it was ugly but does anyone listen? Noooo!

Oh well, I'm sitting here looking at the Krylon website and they make tractor paint! Yeah! You see where this is going. John Deere Green *is* classic, but I'm more of a New Holland Blue or International Harvester Red kind of girl.

[Bad JuJu]

Ok, you're right. That IS an ugly bike

OK, so she hasn't seen much TLC in a long, long time, clearly, but LOOK at those sweet, curvy lugs. I don't know much about the history of the brand (except for its slide into discount store ignominy) or this particular model, but a look at the frame suggests that this bike is worthy of your love and attention. Enjoy each other's company!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Ugly?? What, are you guys nuts????

That thing is a work of art! Pure Beausage Poetry!!
Painting it over would be like painting the Grand Canyon white because it's 'ugly and beat up looking'.
That's no tractor there, it a graceful dolphin you've got. I wouldn't touch a thing- it's gorgeous.
I would just give it a tuneup and maybe new cables and brake pads to be safer.
And tap that seatpost up, fer cryin' out loud!

I love the blue fade job with the smokey stripes!

[redrhodie]

My friend's BF found the same bike on the side of the road, in bright hot pink! It's not been as lovingly cared for as your sweet ride, though. He was talking about fixing it up, but alas, it's rusting away in the shed, not touched for the past year. He should have left it for someone cool to find.

+1 to what Lisa said. It's perfect as it is.

[imdeanna]

That thing is a work of art! Pure Beausage Poetry!!

+2!!!!!

[indigoiis]

I think it's fierce. And it looks like it's saying, "Come on, you know you want it."

I rike it!

[wackyjacky1]

No comments on seat post location it's freegin stuck there right now and I physically abuse my ta-tas in the drops.

Damn IT!!! You just made me spew Tab all over my keyboard.

Lug, lug, lug, lug, lug, lug, la la luuuuuuugs, make the world go 'round.

Rockin' the PowerPuff Girls. I dig it!

[smurfalicious]

Okay, okay, okay buuuuut. Here's the thing. It's neglected steel. In Colorado where it snows and they put evil stuff on the snow that eats steel. So if I get it all apart to paint it I can tidy up any developing rust, shoot it full of frame saver even though it's an after thought, and make her pretty again. I think I can find a color scheme true to her late 80s early 90s roots. I'd like to do something two tone and really highlight her lugs.

I highly a doubt a DIY paint job will look that amazing, but I think it will be fun, and parts are way more important than spending $150 plus for paint.

I just thought the tractor colors would be fun since as it stands right now I'm a country girl lost in the city. I have a friend who works at a sign shop and I could get vinyl lettering to make it a New Holland, or International Harvester, etc. I just figure at her advanced age that she's still plugging along like many old tractors I know.

[Tuckervill]

You mean a tractor like this? (that's my boy, hugging his John Deere after it pulled him 50 miles.)

[smurfalicious]

ZOMG! Yes! The only problem is those are also OR Ducks colors and I'm a Beaver Believer and could get disowned from my "chosen family" for that! I did find pink bar tape locally so she may end up black with pink lugs. Sexy, sexy. Still on a post meeting mister Gary Fisher high, don't mind me.