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BXC Cruiser
The story on the BXC is that it was found by Greg Hanna at a shop that was going out of business in a Chicago, IL suburb. They had two f/f combos @ $40 EACH ! and Jason Leikam and I bought them both. Jay traded his to Darren Chan while I kept and built mine up. Stem is a used anno red tuff neck pro-model, wheels are anno red 7x laced to chrome sunshine sealed with a sun-tour 16T freewheel. Brake is a red anno MX-1000 copy, spc is sun-tour, post is fluted redline cro-mo, seat is a used elina and handlebars are early 80's GT bars. What's kind of unusual about the bike compared to modern cruisers is the bottom bracket height ... which absolutely can't be any higher than 11" (by way of comparison, my '96 Elf is 12") ... and the chain stays are pretty long ... probably 16.5" to be sure. The seat tube pierces the top tube and overall the design is very JMC like. It took me a year and a half to build and I'll probably upgrade the brake to an NOS MX-1000 when I find one.

DG
The DG was my first effort at a collector bike and the frame (80ish) came from Darren Chan with a fresh black powder coat and a well used Redline MX-II fork. I traded Darren for a entry level Free Agent Cruiser kit that was part of a complete bike that I had purchased earlier that year subsequently replaced with an aluminum redline. Wheels came from Ben Joy and when I got them from him both had front hubs ... they were used by an Oregonian friend of Ben's on a GPV bike that had been stashed since GPV'ing died the first time in the early 80's. Bars and seatpost are aluminum fluted ... no particular brand ... taiwaneese knobbies were the choice of the day since Carlisles have grown seriously scarce. It's got an NOS gold caliper brake (probably taiwan ... Schwinn looking) ... MKS rat trap pedals, single piece crank, HKK Smoker chain, NOS Mongoose saddle and Oury grips. The bike was sold 3rd quarter 2000 and now resides alongside several other very nice restorations in a collection in Ohio.

Team Mongoose Competition
The Goose is a candy blue Team Mongoose Competition with prismatic stickers. It's a full cro-moly late 1980 frame and the fork is from 1979 or earlier. The fork is the drip on coating over nickle while the frame is a different coating process. Though, both colors are a close match. It's got a NOS single piece takagi crank, NOS Excalibur pedals and SPC, NOS DiaCompe MX-1000 brake, NOS mongoose saddle, NOS ukai rims laced to NOS shimano DX hubs, NOS yellow comp II tires, NOS gold fluted handlebars and seatpost, NOS HKK smoker chain and NOS Grab On MX-II grips. This bike has taken me the longest to build as it seems to be the most near and dear to my heart. I found the frame (exactly like the bike I started to build, but never finished in spring 1981) at a Milwaukee area shop. Until months before I scored this frame, the same shop had numerous NOS Goose frames, DeCoster frames and Schwinn frames ... and still has a rack full of NOS Redline MX-II forks. Frame was purchased for $65 ... which seemed like a cool deal even two years ago. I wouldn't mind going with a complete mono-chrome look of all blue stuff on this tike someday ... but for now, the gold is looking pretty sharp.