Longboards!

Ben and Josh have been building longboards together for about a
month now.  Here they are with their new collection of prototypes.

Ben and his boards

Ben's second board, plus new shoes for easier riding

Ben's third board with new grip tape designs

Re-Building a Bike

Here are a couple pretty photos of the finished bike Ben just rebuilt from an old bike someone gave him a while back. 

In order to make it look so nice, he took the old bike, stripped it down, sanded it, primed it, painted it orange (in a homemade cardboard spray booth in the back yard), got some new parts and a little help from a local bike mechanic, and then assembled it!  I think the new color choices are quite appropriate for a kid born on Halloween.

In case you're curious to see the transformation, here's the old bike frame, and some pictures of the process.

Old bike frame

Back yard spray booth

Primed bike fork

Primed frame

Painted frame

Cool orange pedals

Matching chain