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I painted a gold strip on each part of the bike, and painted the front and back of the bike gold as well. Then I masked off the gold and painted gloss black over the entire frame. I masked off the chrome and rubber on the forks, and painted them gloss black as well. After the black dried I took off the tape on the gold, I applied 3 coats of clear gloss. This gives it an extra shine, and also protects the paint from scratches and scrapes and chips. Apologies for the poor quality of this pic, but it was taken in the rain with the sun shining at the camera. I used the forks, wheels, gears, brakes, and I'm going to use the pedals and cranks off this bike as well. I stripped the forks of the original black paint and applied the new black gloss and clear gloss.

To be honest Roger I haven't painted it because I haven't got the time. If I was to paint it I'd probably paint it red and green. What do you think Hoss? Haha

Well it's July and I'm still waiting for the snow... I had a set of forks off a small kids bike I got a few weeks ago, and decided to fit it to the back of the Ski Bike. I had to bend the top of the forks a little so a saddle would for on the bike. I also added a bell, horn, some baubles and a duck.

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I got given this wheelchair today. A neighbor a few doors up from me died a few years ago, and left her next door neighbor her wheelchair. Today i was passing by her house and saw the wheelchair through the open garage door, under a pile of boxes. I stopped and asked if I could buy it, and she said I could just have it. I'm going to somehow marry the wheelchair and wrecked red bike, and form a weird looking wheelchair bike. My goal is to have the design both sturdy and robust, but can also for in the trunk of a car. I also want the bike part to be easily detachable, which would allow the wheelchair to be used for conventional use. Unfortunately it's summer in Ireland, so it rains and rains and rains. Therefore I can only work when it doesn't rain. It began raining before I got a chance to do any real work. I only got a chance to take off the footrests. Here's a few pictures of the progress so far.

Great work Hoss! The ranches are generally harder to work on, but I'm quite good at geography so I probably find it a little easier than other people. I went into the housing development next to the ranch on google street view earlier, hoping to find a break in the houses that would allow me to see the ranch from a different angle. It didn't work, but I did find something a little more significant. As most of y'all know the ranch was sold to a property developer a few years ago, with the hopes of building a large upscale housing development. Well the ranch is for sale again. I spent hours trying to find any information I could on the ranch, like who was selling it and how much were they hoping to get for it etc. Luckily google updated their Valencia street view, and I found this sign outside the ranch. I googled the name, and it turns out she's selling a 20 acre section of the ranch for $150,000. The section is just north of Tom Sarmeto's garage area. Hopefully if my singing career works out I can buy the ranch and bring it back to it's Dukes glory days!! Haha

Hey y'all I doubt this is coming across at the moment but I'm on cloud nine right now. The reason why? I JUST INTERVIEWED COUNTRY SINGER ANITA COCHRAN!!! I've been a big fan of Anita since I heard her sing in the Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood, and when I discovered her on Facebook I immediately set about trying to interview her for my radio show. After many months of problem solving, and working out how we could do this, I finally got to interview her today And let me just say that Anita is one of the most down to earth people I've ever spoken to. And she's unbelievably easy to get along with. We instantly hit it off, and the half hour interview seemed to fly by. I brought up her role in the Dukes movie, and she said she was a huge fan of the show growing up!! I won't say much more, but will try to post a podcast link when the show is podcasted. Never meet your heroes?? Pfft that's clearly not the case here!!

I found this link earlier on. I hope this helps answer your question. http://www.cglfc.com/lee1.html

I don't know if anyone else has the Jon Holland book, but I'll try my best to explain what Lee did what shot in the junkyard. This is all taken directly from Jon Holland's "The Roads Back to Early Hazzard". ***"Daisy's Song" used Lee 2, Lee 3 and the "High Octane" Lee (the Lee that performs the jump in the first scene of High Octane) to film the scene in the junkyard. Lee 3 was used as for both first and second unit filming in the junkyard. Lee 2 was used for the heavy duty stunt work and took the brunt of the damage. The High Octane Lee was used to exit the junkyard.*** Just skipping down to the FBI car getting rammed. ***When Lee 3 rammed into the FBI car, the front bumper was significantly damaged. It could no longer be used for unit one filming; this is where the High Octane Lee drove into action, being used in a brief shot as the General Lee exits the junkyard.*** This means that Lee 3 was used for most of the junkyard scene, except the exit shot and car falling shot. Remember Lee 3 was damaged in One Armed Bandits as well. It spun out during the first chase and the drivers door had to be replaced. They replaced the damaged door with Lee 1's door. Then in Daisy's Song the Lee that rams the Atlanta police car behind Starr's studio is Lee 3. Lee 3 was also scene driving down the highway into Atlanta. For all the close up shots in front of Starr's, they used Lee 4, which was a red 1968 charger quickly converted to a 69. The conversion was so quick that the builders didn't have time to paint the numbers on the drivers door. As a result of this the film crew had to use Lee 4's passenger side for all the close up shots that showed the front of the charger. They used Lee 3 to filmed Daisy waiting behind Starr's, and for Daisy driving around to the back of Starr's. This is because the front end damage wouldn't be seen by the camera.

Earlier today I stipped this bike down to it's frame and salvaged what I could. It was mostly nuts, bolts and washers that I could save, but I also got the saddle, left pedal and crank,chain, tires and tubes and the back brake. Ever since I built the Fall Guy Bike it's become standard practice to cut the back end off every bike I scrap. The end result usually looks like this. However as the day progressed I came up with a brainwave. Why not use the remaining frame from this bike and somehow mount it to a wheelchair? So I went back outside and pulled the bike from the scrap pile, and set to work rebuilding the front end. I put back on the original front forks, but fitted the handlebars that came off the lawnmower I got a few weeks ago. Does anyone remember the recumbent bike I built? Well I don't blame you if you don't remember it because it never really got off the ground. After work stopped on the recumbent I saved the pedal/front fork assembly for future use. They've been sitting in my garage ever since, and today I took them out and fitted them to the bike. To do this I drilled a hole in the frame of the red bike, and slotted an axle through the hole. I then slipped the forks onto the axle and tightened the bolts on the axle, which holds the forks in place. I did this twice to secure the forks. It isn't shown in the pictures in this post, but the stem of the forks (the bit where the handlebars usually go) is the exact same size as the seat post slot on the pedal assembly. Because of this I can slide the forks into the seat post, and because I fitted a quick release bolt, the pedals can be moved forwards or back depending on the riders size. The reason the seat post and pedals are still attached to the red bike is because I don't know where to mount the wheelchair yet. Once I have the wheelchair I'll cut off more of the bike. And finally... I'm having a really good stroke of luck at the moment. I got this red bike for free a few days ago, and then today look what I got. I was cycling back from my uncles house earlier, and passed a dumpster outside a house. I saw a man in the yard wheeling this bike towards the dumpster. I stopped and asked what was wrong with the bike. He said that the gears started acting up so he left it for a while. Then when he tried to use it again the brakes jammed up. He then just left it lying in his yard, apparently fed up with it. I asked if I could buy it off him, and he said that I could just take it for free, because it was worthless to him. When I got it home I discovered that a little wheel had gone missing from the gears, which cause them to act up. I fitted a new wheel in under five minutes and the gears were as good as new. The jammed brakes were solved with a quick squirt of oil on the cables, and the front tire was a little low. So within ten minutes of getting the bike home I had a fully functioning, essentially brand new free bike. It has a steel frame, and amazingly hasn't got a single spot of rust on the frame, even though it spent most of it's life outside. I don't want to destroy or modify this bike in any way, because it's just too nice to wreck. For now I'm just going to use it as a daily rider.

Haha if only I'd seen this two hours ago, because I stripped it earlier. I've got the main part of the frame left though, so I might make a wheelchair bike!! All I need to do is get a wheelchair and a rear wheel.

I just spotted this geographical mistake in High Octane. I'm sure y'all are familiar with the scene when Jesse gets pulled over at the cross roads by Rosco. Well as Boss drives off look down the road in the distance. See that big tree on the left hand side of the road? Now look behind the approaching police car with Bo and Luke in it. See the big tree? The first shot shows Bo and Luke coming down from the road Boss drives down, and the second shot shows Bo and Luke coming to the cross roads from the same road Jesse took.

I like the gate idea, but unfortunately I can't use the wheels or pedals from this bike I'm going on holidays next sunday, so I might try and bring it with me and jump it off the pier a few times, and I'm sure my brother and his friends would love to do that as well. I have another idea for this bike though. Has anyone ever heard of the Redneck Rollercoaster? It's a 91 chevy caviliar with the seats mounted 5 feet over the front bumper. As a result of this when the driver steps on the gas and quickly slams on the brakes the car nose dives. I don't know if it would be possible to do in bike form, but it's worth a try I suppose.

Well I've been busy stripping paint and now I'm finally ready to paint it. I'm buying the paint tomorrow, and I'm going to paint it midnight blue. Here's a few pictures of the stripping process and paint set up. The bike stripped down to a bare shell The original forks are on the right, and I've got newer, better ones from another donor bike on the left. The painting set up. I mount a piece of steel pipe to the bike stand I have, and raise it up to whatever level I need. I then slide the bike onto the pipe using the steering headset or seat post.

Hi y'all!! My brother recently got a new bike, and he gave me the old one to use for parts. Well when I say he gave me it, it was more like," I'm giving you this bike, but you have to go and get it". I should explain at this point that he left it at our grandparents house three years ago, and never got round to collecting it. It sat neglected and forgotten, slowly being swallowed by the ivy in their back yard. Anyway I went round to their house today, and after taking off the seized front brake and pumping up the tires managed to cycle it part of the way home, at which point the rear gears locked up which caused the bike to skid. I tried using brute force to unlock the gears but ended up breaking the support for the gears. Fortunately this freed the gears and the bike managed to limp home. When I got it home I discovered more problems. The pedals and pedal assembly are loose which means the ballbearings are gone, the rear wheel is badly buckled, it hasn't got rear gears or a front brake, the back brake is on it's last legs, the front wheel is too big for the front forks and the frame is badly rusted in places. So in plain English, the bike is beyond economical repair, and I'm going to salvage the few parts I can off it before scrapping it. However I'm curious to see what methods of destruction y'all can come up with! Judging by the fanfics and threads in general HazzardNet has a very large number of creative people! Anyway here's a few pictures of the bike. The pictures can't convey how badly damaged the bike is. I'm not too sure how this happened...

I've decided to scrap the friction drive idea, and instead weld the cogs on a rear wheel so the cogs become fixed. My friend Brian, who took the pedals off this bike for his own bike build, was at my house helping me work on a couple of small bike jobs when he mentioned that he had a welder. Anyway I've cut back the mounting plate so it doesn't stick out, I've removed the little cog that was attached to the engine, I've bolted the engine,mounting plate,rear rack and supports together, fitted a new rear wheel, wired the front brake,put a new front tire on and mounted the throttle control. And just to give y'all an idea of what the finished bike will look like.

I finally finished painting and reassembly today. Now it's ready to go on bounty hunter missions and jump broken bridges!! I've had to put the original rear rack I bought for this bike on the back of my motorbike, because it's the strongest one I have and can easily support the weight of the engine. Aside from that however, I haven't changed anything on this bike since I've built it. Now to decide on my next project...

Well summers here (the Irish weather doesn't make it feel like summer though) and I've been busy fixing and scrapping bikes for cash. I've saved up a decent amount, but will hopefully be getting four or five old bikes soon which I could be able to sell for up to €350 each! Unfortunately I still won't have enough for a golf or mini, but I have found another car that I've grown to love that I can afford. This a 2000 Mitsubishi Lancer, 1.3 liter. It was used for years as a rally car, and became very popular in Ireland. As a result of this, they are always in the auto classifieds for not very much. A 2000 1.3 glx model, for instance can cost from €350 to €1500. And because it's only a 1.3 its very economical. And yet more good news!! I'm not sure what car insurance is like in America, and to be honest I'm not too sure about Irish car insurance either. But my dad works in insurance, and has both cars insured in his name. He also has a type of policy called "open insurance" which means anyone with a full licence between the age of 25 and 70 can drive the two cars as long as he knows about it. However because he works in insurance he has open insurance for all ages with any sort of licence. I think he only pays something like €500 a year to insure both cars. I haven't spoken to my dad yet, but I know it's not very much to add another car to his policy. So in theory I could buy a Lancer, and only have to pay for tax and fuel, and not worry about insurance. Now all I need to do is pass the theory test!

I sent the final car load of scrap to the dump last weekend, so I've finally got space to work. The man I got the lawnmower off is meant to ring me back next week about the bikes. He says he has to double check with his son, but I'm going to get at least four bikes and a wheelchair. The bikes are old, and are very popular in Dublin as frames for fixed gear bikes (fixies). They're bikes that can pedal backwards and forwards. If I play my cards right I could get up to €250 a frame, not to metion what I could get if I sold the wheels, gears and other parts. I'm planning on keeping the wheelchair, and modifying it slightly (that's all I'm going to say for now). Anyway I've spent the last couple of days figuring out some way to mount the engine to the bike. I finally came up with a solution earlier today, but had to stop early because I burnt my hand after cutting something with the angle grinder and then picking it up (wasn't the best idea I ever had). Basically I'm going to use the original mounting plate for the engine from the lawnmower and bolt two metal bars under the rear rack. With this design the engine, mounting plate, metal bars all mount to the rear rack. As you can see there is still a lot of excess metal, but I'm going to cut that off as soon as I have the engine mounted and drivetrain system set up. I always cut the back off any bike I scrap, so I'm using the back end of a donor bike I had to mount the friction wheel. For the friction wheel I'm using an old single speed rear wheel. I only needed the hub, cog and axle so I cut everything else off. I'm going to mount another cog to the engine, and will have a chain running from one cog to the other. This is a picture of the rear end and hub I'm going to use. I'm going to drill two sets of holes in the longer piece, and bolt it to the saddle and rear rack mounts at the seat post. I haven't decided if I'll bother using the shorter piece, because the bike frame is very strong and I've already broken a few drill bits on the frame.

Hey y'all One of my brothers friends came by earlier with his bike that I'm rebuilding. We ended up talking for a while and he happened to see my unicycle sitting in the back of the garage. He was amazed that I could ride a unicycle, and hadn't seen anyone ride one before. I never gave any thought to riding a unicycle. I don't really take notice of the people around me anymore when I'm on a bike ( for obvious reasons) and I've picked up that habit when I ride the unicycle. So I'm just curious to see if any of y'all have any weird or unusual talents?

It's definitely not a truck but I get my dads Audi a6 TDI (turbo diesel injection) pretty much whenever I want. And even though it's only a two liter it's unbelievably quick off the line and fast as well. The only bad thing about it is that he won't let me fit Dixie horns to it That isn't his car, but it's the same make, model and year.

Here's a few more pics... The original grass box. Unfortunately it was rusted through at the seams of the welds, so I'm just using it for holding small scrap pieces.