Well now that I'm back in Chicago, it is time to get down to the business of pimping bertha out. Spend the day buying gawdy accessories and various necessities in order to turn that bike into the ultimate party battlewagon it is destined to become.
So I motored over to Target, which carries bike accessories that are big, cheap, dumb, gawdy, and therefore fabulous for this project. I decided to use a temporary solution for the blowtorch, which should suffice for now (riding to and from practice). Afterall, the primary purpose of said blowtorch is to provide massive radiance on beachfronts, forrests and other places that I might need to drink heavily in the dark.
Right now, Bertha is sitting down in the bike room sporting: a headlight, big computer, cupholder, rearview mirror, rack, tire lights and tail light. The batteries that came with the headlight were dead...what the fuck?
I got one of those little blinking headlights that go on the bike stem. Since the bike stem now has a rack protruding from it, I mounted it on the frame on the left side. This presented an interesting scenario because this will now allow me to put another light on the other side. Why just have one when you can have two right? I'm also planning on mounting a light on the rack too.
The computer I got is supposed to be "retro" and by retro, if they mean big and clumsy, this thing definitely fits the bill. Seriously, it's just fantastic. I'll be posting pics soon.
The only problem with this stuff is the whack-ass "Schwinn" logo all over it. I don't have anything against Schwinn, but I'm not about to make Bertha a Schwinn billboard. So the docket for tomorrow now includes me obtaining some flat black spray paint and making this shit look straight evil. I need to figure out how to handle the face of that computer. I'm thinking I should keep in the John Deere motif, but I'm not really sure how to convey that just yet. This could become an exercise in actual painting.
Still to obtain= Cooler and stereo unit. I'm not hots on for that stuff yet cos well, I don't have anywhere to ride that would warrant that.