I traded my RL 20-II + other to get this!!!!!!

Ta-daaaaaaa.....






So I'm temporarily out of the other club so I'm starting my own. There's been other CW threads but not for a while, so what the heck. I have a few others but will be tearing down the white one and moving some of it's parts to the George the Animal Steel/tiny kitten approved luggage rack.

A few others to start off my gang.

(ignore the Skyway)

My Ceppie inspired bike. (Accurate bars soon to be on it too!)





This one is almost done actually. (finally!!) I had this shipped to me like this a few years back right before I got married. I remember getting it and just laughing and not even opening it for a while just because I was so busy at the time. Well it's almost done now and might be my coolest looking one yet. Pics to come eventually. It's an 86.

So who else is in the gang?

Very nice Don!
I've had a smattering of CW parts over the years but never owned a frameset. I ran CW freestyle bars on my Dyno bitd and loved them. Those bars made scurfers a cinch!

I, too, was a big fan of the CW bars. I ran some on my Trick Star (actually, they were CW-type tioga bars) before I discovered Woody bars. I liked the Woody bars better overall, but I say the CWs were the coolest looking bars ever made. One man's opinion.

My opinion too, and I also ran them on my Trick Star, orange ones. I kept them on there though until I sold it to get a Haro in 87. Actually buying sets of those bars again on ebay about 5 years ago is what got me into this whole collecting thing we have going on here. It started off just buying the bars, then getting a whole CW bike, then the rest led me up to here. A set of bars came with the luggage rack F/F too. Woohoooooo, more CW bars!!!!!

hey guys, Ive also got a cw freestyle still in survivor cond. Im not sure what to do with it yet, build it or trade it

I love those remote control kittens.

LoVE the kittENh!! Adoruble!
And thee ..wrestler dude.
Nice CW too!
Good job Don!

Nice CWs you guys. Just when I start to forget the size of the luggage rack without fail someone posts a pic and I am like WHOA! THAT FREAKING THIS HUUUUGGGEEE!!!!!!!

I'm a CW fan. I have a California Freestyler like 4130bigr's. I plan to build it this winter. Anyone have the white bars for sale?

Hey all, I'm a new member and I just found this thread. I have a 1986 CW Cali Freestyler, and I'm selling it for $350 obo. I hope this is the right place for this. I am open to making deals. Let me know if you might be interested. Thanks

Sean

Don, you got rid of ol' yellow ??? Seriously dig those luggage rack bikes though !!

I posted the RL club thread a few years back in response to a big old Hutch thread that was going on at the time...not sure whatever happened to the Hutch thread, but the RL thread is still going stong

Props on the C-dubs !!!

I have a 83 Z, and what I think is a 87 Shaker frame that I plan to build up someday...

Don what the ------ You sold out!!! LOL BUT that CW you got there is sweet damm a new club to join very good one Don you the man!!

Yeah, I traded the yellow one. I missed out on this luggage rack twice already and when it was offered to me, I probably would have traded almost anything for it. Now it's mine to stay.

Here's that one that was wrapped up all crazy. It's got different forks, seatpost, sprocket and stem right now plus a bunch of other parts. It really just needs levers and to have the brakes hooked up and it'll be ready to go. New pix eventually, here's one I had uploaded though from way back.

Nice Don Got to love crome My old freind Charlie had one like your crome one but it was pink he loved that bike bitd!

Sweet....rides...just wanted to say that I still am a BIg fam of these CW's...love the californias.

I have CW Pro bars on my Torker. Can I hang out at the clubhouse?

Lol, sure Taylor. This is a place where anyone can belong. (OK, that's from a song)

This pic was pretty much the start of my collection.


Where these are now. The chrome ones are now white and on that white bike up there. The black ones went back to Lou, and I still have those purple ones hanging up now. The green ones below that got powdered black and are the ones on the black Ceppie bike of mine, the pink ones below those are on my wife's Quad. Those green ones were really marked up and lots of the green was actually rubbed off and a yellow was showing form under it. I still have the other green ones on the top of the other side. I sold those other pink ones to someone on here who needed them. The orange ones with the green Mushroom II's are on my Trick Star and the neon orange ones under that I still have. I have others now too, this is a really old pic, and one day I'm going to put them all up on the wall like I originally wanted.

My 86 PMC CRUISER

Here is my 1985 Cali Freestyle. NOS frame/fork and bars.

THAT is SIIIIIIIIICK!!!!!!

^^^^ I was thinking the same thing. NOS chrome, Awesome!!!!!!!

and that fact that ive never even seen a cali freestyler in chrome....like...ever...makes it that much more awesome!

What the ---- first post and he comes out swinging Bamm yougot to love crome!! love that bike Loopdigger

Finished up the luggage rack today. Thought I was just going to move most everything over from my other 85 white one, but I went a little different route. Just a couple changes I want to do still, but I wanted to build it all the way up yesterday and today.

how much for the cat? I have some cosmetics I need to test out before they go to market. JD

Wow Don super clean build !!!

WOW Killer stuff guyz !!!

That cruiser is dope !!! With the low slung top tube, it looks like it was way ahead of it's time...

The chrome Cali Freestyler is just off the hook !!!

And Don....I love the dub !! Freakin tight azz ride man !!! I think the platform is big enough that George "The Animal" Steel could actually fit inside of it lol...

Thanks




Lol, sorry, that little white one got adopted out to a couple of old spinster ladies about a week ago. I'll let you know when we get some more.

Almost Ready with this one!

Don that LR is sweet Luv the color combo, but thinking out loud, maybe some red or black Grip tape here or there??
Nice build.....Rick

oh.
snap.

One more done. The forks, all 4 pegs and seat post have been re-painted white. Actually Lou in Florida did an amazing repair job on these forks for me. Thanks Lou! It's finally done. It was super sunny today finally but all that light kind of washed out the lavender in these pix a little. Still, this is it. The sickers on the forks, bars and seat post are repro, all frame stickers and everything else are original. SOme NOS, some used. I think that Tuf Neck sprocket is the original white, but I may be wrong. The CW on it is just cut out vinyl.

WOW Don that CW is SWEET !!!!!!

why OGK's and not tuffs?

I had the OGKs for a long time and have been wanting to use them on something. I've had them on and off of a few bikes here and there but they didn't really seem to fit. I tried them on this one and liked it. Side note: One thing I just realized a short while ago, the OGK Hutch mags that are just like these are actually different in the hub area. Everything in that area on the Hutch ones are much thinner than the regular OGKs. Just something I noticed. Side note over.

the black cw you built is my favorite of any cw i've ever seen, it's too cool is that the original finish on it? i've never seen a black one before.

Thanks! Some did come in black, but this one was powdered. I had the frame/forks/bars/cranks/seat post powdered black. Then I drew the sticker set up in illustrator and had them made. Actually I've got the different bars and some A'me bubble font grips for it right now, but I have some new forks with lower pegs coming too, so when those get here, I'll be replacing all that. I've got a black ACS bearing cup with the cable stop for it too so I can get that spinmaster clamp-on cable stop off of there. It all won't look that different, but it'll be a little closer to that one main photo I was going off of.

Here's a clip from a CW ad from January '87 BMXA. I think they just started making them like Ceppie was riding his the year or so before at this time. Other than Ceppie's bike you never really saw them like this before this ad. Not that I can remember anyway.

As always, your bikes are awesome. You have a keen eye for design, my friend. It's crazy to me how many variations there are to any given CW frame. It seems they weren't even consistent from year to year!

WoW, I'm late to the party!

Just want to add that if you have pic's of your CW please post them on my site CWRACINGSOURCE.COM I would greatly appreciate all the help and contributions!

Don, thanks for your help bro

Am intrested in buying if you ever consider selling.

I just did a few updates to my Ceppie bike. New pix soon.

KILLER BUILDS!!!!!!!!!!! I'm loving the chrome and purple. CW, one of the few companies not in my collection. However, I do own chrome freestyle bars like the ones you guys have been showing, and they came off of my RL20b that was bought off ebay a long time ago from a member on here.

Cool! Now you can build a bike around those bars.

Never started a club but here's the Luggage Rack before Don got it and glad it is in good hands!






My buddy Rick at Buff's backyard ramp, 1985


Me and Buff droppin' in 1985


Me and Buff outside the old Bicycle Source Bike shop 2009

Ceppie Maes Venice Beach AFA Contest 1985

WOW! I haven't seen a Luggage Rack in eons. I remember McGoo spent a lot of time making fun of those things... and he was the team manager. Now you need a CW "note pad" scooter. When McGoo first showed Andy Jenkins the CW scooter, He told Andy it was called the No Ped. Andy said, "What? Note Pad? That's a stupid name." Lew started laughing and from then on it was the CW Note Pad among the Wizard people and McGoo.

Then again... maybe it's best not to bring back the '80's scooters...

Thanks JT. I know that rack is silly huge, but I love it!

Finally got a few updated pix of my Ceppie bike. I had to wait for new pix until I had a house to match it, lol.



What's different is I got the other freestyle bars with just the single crossbar like Ceppie used, forks with lower pegs (my others were a couple inches higher or so), old A'me bubble font grips, switched out the top headset bearing cup, and thats about it. The only other thing I want for it are the ACS Potts mod locking levers in silver. Pretty sure that's what he's using in the main photo I went off of for this bike.

I got this pic at Rockford this year. Mine on the bike and one other! Someone drilled that other one out twice for a rotor, d'oh! Still cool to see another though.