Hello.
I am an "un-retired" man of many trades, I owned and operated a body shop for 10 years from 1968 to 1978, taught auto body repair at a community college for 13 years, left teaching to pursue a career in retail art and custom framing. I owned 2 art galleries up in the Midwest and one down here on the Panhandle. I lost my business in 2004 to Hurricane Ivan and so became an employee of another couple of art galleries up until I was laid off in 2008 during the beginning of the economy slump. I was old enough to retire and did so until the boredom of not having much to occupy me along the creative lines and also a unique random opportunity came my way. Now I am doing antique clock repair and loving the challenge and the precision of the work! My mentor is a master repairman with over 60 years in clock and watch repair. He is now in his 80's, still working full time and he wants to retire and travel while his wife (who is a young 81) can still manage to do trips!!
I happened upon a classified ad this morning for a motorized Schwinn beach cruiser and decided to do some research into motorized bikes. That led me to this forum and my first post here in the introduction area.
That's my story ................... and I'm stickin' to it no matter what anyone says!!
I am an "un-retired" man of many trades, I owned and operated a body shop for 10 years from 1968 to 1978, taught auto body repair at a community college for 13 years, left teaching to pursue a career in retail art and custom framing. I owned 2 art galleries up in the Midwest and one down here on the Panhandle. I lost my business in 2004 to Hurricane Ivan and so became an employee of another couple of art galleries up until I was laid off in 2008 during the beginning of the economy slump. I was old enough to retire and did so until the boredom of not having much to occupy me along the creative lines and also a unique random opportunity came my way. Now I am doing antique clock repair and loving the challenge and the precision of the work! My mentor is a master repairman with over 60 years in clock and watch repair. He is now in his 80's, still working full time and he wants to retire and travel while his wife (who is a young 81) can still manage to do trips!!
I happened upon a classified ad this morning for a motorized Schwinn beach cruiser and decided to do some research into motorized bikes. That led me to this forum and my first post here in the introduction area.
That's my story ................... and I'm stickin' to it no matter what anyone says!!
