Since we went with a black and orange theme we thought the rims needed to be orange.
The original rims were white, rusty, and Schwinn rims. During our bicycle first restoration we had chrome rims where we were able to get away with cleaning up the chrome and tuning the spokes. The Typhoon rims needed to be blasted painted and reassembled. The new spokes and the hours of time exceeded the value of what new rims can be bought for. The Schwinn rims also limit what is available for tires as they have their own tire sizes that are different from the rest of the industry.
This is where things got frustrating. My wife and I do everything we can to buy local and there was not a good source locally to get any custom parts. Everything would need to be ordered and none of the stuff we were interested in was standard products for the local shops. We ended up ordering rims from Bike Buyers of California. They were delivered to the door for about $80. Not bad at all.
http://www.bikebuyers.com/index.htm
The service was good and the pricing was great. I will order from these guys again.
We also discovered engine kits for bicycles. This is where we had the first major morph in the project. We thought we would do a board track racer type bicycle and add an engine.
We ordered an engine from another California company called Bike Berry.
http://www.bikeberry.com
I am happy with the product so far. My only issue was no packing slip was supplied. It was difficult to check the contents and make sure we received all our parts. I had to go back to the website and e-mail them in regards to a couple of parts that were left out of the kit. Their service was fast and pleasant and we had the missing parts in a day or two at no cost to us.
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