I was at a local bike night here, known as "2 wheeled Tuesdays" and a wide assortment of people show up usually,
bikes are all over the map, supposed to be mostly vintage, but some interesting stuff shows up,
So this guy shows up on some sort of Asian V Twin cruiser bike..Apparently it was looking a bit drab, and wasnt happy with quotes for painting it. Being the artistic type,,,,,, he covered the whole thing with US coins, The contrasts between the Copperish Pennies against the quarters, nickels and dimes was quite nice,, layed them out very nicely, kind of a 2 tone thing with the silver coins in a rally stripe up the fenders with pennies on the sides, then scallops on the tank. We asked about the glues,, he used titebond 550? or something like that in a caulk tube to put them on, then covered it with some sort of 2 part clear epoxy that you can spray on, so it was protected from fuel and other issues.
Sometimes some come loose, and require reglue, but it looked really cool. Of course we al made jokes about toll bridges and drivethru fast food joints. He did say when parked downtown Portland, you would think homeless people would steal the coins off it but surprisingly that doesnt happen. He told us they are his biggest fans and they approach and tell him how cool it is.
Sorry. no pix, maybe i can get someone to email ones they took, I didnt have a camera.
