Reel Repair by Alan Tani

We have a bike trail close to our house and there are few small lake so I plant to set up a bicycle just for this .This is an old Peugeot bike quite heavy I convert to single speed  and mount a PVC pipe to carry fishing rod ,also have some room to carry fishing tackle

Nice, I hope you do well on the ponds.

That is cool!  Exercise...fish...a Win! - john

Bicycle rocket launcher.  A tried and true solution.  Good job with that one, but where's the fish bag?

I like it. Good job. Been thinking about rigging one of those up. I need to do more cardio and maybe that'll motivate me.

Confucius philosophy states "Man who ride bicycle run like hell just to give Butt rest".  😉 😂

Quote from: Midway Tommy on November 11, 2024, 02:39:08 PMConfucius philosophy states "Man who ride bicycle run like hell just to give Butt rest".  😉 😂

Not a fan of Confucius but it's true ,I need rest for a while

Quote from: oc1 on November 11, 2024, 04:12:32 AMBicycle rocket launcher.  A tried and true solution.  Good job with that one, but where's the fish bag?

Don't plant to keep any

Nice setup.  Those old Peugeots, when "younger", were fairly desirable bicycles if you could live with the French idiosyncrasies as far as parts compatibility.  My "fishing" bike is just another use for a bike that I use to run errands, light grocery store trips, etc.  Not nearly as nice as that Peugeot.  An old Huffy "Mojave Gulch" 15 (18?) speed I got for a couple of bucks off a police auction in town quite a few years back.  Has a regular set of metal bike baskets on the rear, and on top of the rack, I have a plastic milk crate attached.  Definitely utilitarian.  Plenty of room in the crate for a small tackle box.  Rod(s) are usually a Berkley travel/pack rod and/or a no-name telescoping spinning rod; they both break down to something less than 2 ft. long, so no need for a special rod holder.

Frank

I came from a poor country ,until I'm 20 year old my main transportation still a bicycle so go fishing with bike is what I do since very young .Peugeot and few other brand are very expensive that time that I never have . But when I came here I saw people throw away these bike and can't stop to pick them up ,I pick them up,fix them up to use or gave to some kids that needed around the block . Most kids don't like road bike ,they like BMX or mountain bike so I ended up hanging lots of bike in garage and storage . Since retire I pull them all out and one by one rebuilt them.
My favorite is the Benotto bike , very light steel bike that I strip out all paint and repaint made it look ugly but function good ,I use it for more than 20 years and just have to replace rim and new set of 105 brake . the older bike I built for my wife ,my kids ,and my grandkids . Some of them nobody wants

I'll take the Cannondale 

nice collection

The Cannondale is a gift from my friend before I retire but it hurt my butt so bad .For fishing we need a sensitive rod to feel the fish so carbon doing good job ,on bicycle carbon frame make me feel every stone ,gravel so my butt take it all and only 1 lb lighter my Benotto

Great work, Quang!

Best, Fred

Quote from: quang tran on November 11, 2024, 07:19:44 PMThe Cannondale is a gift from my friend before I retire but it hurt my butt so bad .For fishing we need a sensitive rod to feel the fish so carbon doing good job ,on bicycle carbon frame make me feel every stone ,gravel so my butt take it all and only 1 lb lighter my Benotto

Yeah Cr-Moly tubing was still "it" the last time I bought a new bike. I ride around in a Kona commuter these days and it's comfortable enough w/intermed width tires

Great story, quang tran.  When I had my 1st stint in college, the US bike boom of the '70s was just starting, but since I commuted by car to campus, I didn't really have a need for a bicycle.  Now, my second stint, I only lived a couple miles from campus, and if I had been smart, I probably would've gotten a bike not only to get to school, but to get around campus easier as well.  Instead, I rode a bus to school and shanks mare around campus.  But, a friend of my wife's had bikes, and they let us borrow them a couple of times, and I was hooked.  My Dad, who was a hard core thrift store and garage sale shopper, got us each used "10-speed" bikes, which I painted and overhauled; we rode those for quite few years. As $$ became available, I got a C. Itoh (Bridgestone variant-- 27 in. wheels 10-speed) for $2 from a church auction (they initially wanted $5, but since there were no pedals, I got it for $2), overhauled & painted it and it has been my main bike for probably 20-25 years now.  My wife got a curbside throwaway Raleigh (one of the old English ones) and that has had the same treatment and remains her main bike.  Somewhere along the line, I sprung for a new Velo Schauff, which is a nice older model 12-speed, but I still like the Itoh.  Also have a Huffy Aerowind (circa early 1980s 12-speed on 27 in. wheels) sitting in the basement, patiently waiting for a rehab, and which came out of the same police auction I got the Mojave Gulch at.  I'm rambling, but I wanted you to know there are others who appreciate old bikes (almost as much as old fishing reels!) and hate to see stuff go in the trash heap that could be fixed up and made whole again.  I guess it gets in the blood.  Old reels, rods, bikes--I love 'em all.

Frank

PS You are right about kids not wanting the 10-speed "road" type bikes; I may have convinced a few to the contrary by explaining how fast those things can go vs, BMX.  And, yeah, I was a broke kid too, and couldn't afford Peugeot, Motobecane, Gitane or Nishikis, which only increased my desire for them (just like the old Mitchell and Shakespeare reels I couldn't afford either back in the "old days".)