Ok. I sort of got my sleeping back on schedule. I stayed up all night the night before last and went to bed at like 7PM last night..now im up at 5AM. Ah!!!

Anyways..im so excited..
Yesterday my best friend Kelley and I saw these cool bikes at a yard sale. We passed them up because we were going to do something? Which..I cant remember why we passed the bikes the first time..OH YEAH..we were going to visit our cousin since he was home alone. Anyways, on our way from our cousins house we decided to stop by and check out the bikes to see how much they were. You dont understand these bikes..they are so cool.
Good news..they were TWENTY BUCKS a peice. So she bought one and I bought one. Heres a pic of my new bike:

I decided that the bike is going to be my new project. I really need a hobby and I think fixing up the bike would be a good one.

The Bike is called “Grand Trophy.” Im guessing thats the brand name. Id never heard of this brand name and I thought it sounded kinda weird..then I thought about WHO we bought the bikes from.
We bought them from a VERY obviously Eastern European couple who were selling their house and most things in it. Our neighborhood is no stranger to Eastern European people, we have a lot of Bosnians and Serbians who came over here from the war. For some reason, the city I live in was on a list of destinations for refugees from the whole Kosovo thing, the apartment complex my mom lives in used to be made up of a lot of Serbians and Bosnians and I sort of grew up with them.

Anyway..I was talking to my boyfriend and I was like..Oh Shit! I bet these bikes are FROM the country the people were from, I bet they were like the bikes people ride around in East European countries. So I looked up the brand name…”Grand Trophy..” and I didnt find anything. Then I looked up “East European bicycles.” I found a BUNCH of bikes that look realllyy similar to the one I bought. I found out that it is an Eastern European Commuter Bike. Kickass!!! That makes it even more cool!
I decided im gonna try to fix it up a bunch. You know, just do some inexpensive things to it like give it a paint job…probably something like cherry red, or a royal blue. Buy some cool reflectors, probably a new set of handlebars..DEFINITELY a new seat..maybe a banana seat or something, definitely a basket thing in the front, and a rack on the back (like traditional east euro commuter bikes..). This is cool.

Well, since im up im gonna go around to some cycling forums..post my pics and see what everyone thinks.

EDIT:

Ok. I was sort of totally wrong about the bike. But, what the bike really is is a lot better.
Its a vintage Western Flyer from the 30s, 40s, or 50s.  Absolutely BEAUTIFUL bikes. They can be restored to their original glory, or they can be made into the “lowrider” style bikes. My boyfriend wants to make it into a lowrider style bike..I want to restore it to its original glory..
Now I want another one so me and my boyfriend can restore ours together. Ive searched everywhere on the internet looking for a bike, or even the FRAME for a price thats affordable and I was able to find something for about 150 bucks..im probably gonna end up buying that one….I think it would be a great product. I wish the yard sale woulda had three!!!!