building my first lowrider / cruiser, want some advise on using muti speed gear or not? I started with a 26" Murry  mountain bike. I have currently cut & flipped the rear half of the bike for a 3" drop and radical rake change. I have also relocated the crank forward 4" and up 3" for claerance and streatched seating position. Lengthened the rear 2" for that "odd" look. Am currently working on ornmental gussets and minor grinding on the frame. Was wanting to use 10 / 21 speed running gear when I get to that point. I do plan on riding. Is this a common thing to do ?  

Go for it !
This sounds like a bad ass project. I suggest mounting the gear finger index, down under the seat area, on the left. It can be like the old suicide clutch and shifter.  

Exactly! Recently bought old skool 10 speed shifter- the double spoon look'n ones that have that spot scream'n "mount here".also plan 24" rear /26" front on springer type bent forks. Hope to figure out how to post photo's.  

I know those. Perfect for that.

For images, I use photobucket . com.
Easy and free. Your images have to be digital.
Do you have a digital camera?  

Yes, have camera, taking pictures as I go. Mostly still making various parts, taking measurements.Trying to figure out correct front derailer location right now. And trying to find time to do it.  

Help! sprue__one- have pictures down loaded to photobucket, got to the point where they wanted me to "send" them somewhere? I've never done this before, sorry. May need some guidence thru the first ones. Looks like going to make big progress sunday, all afternoon for this project.  

After you are logged into your album, you will see these four options under each thumbnail image:

Email & IM

Direct Link

HTML Code

IMG Code

click the IMG Code option box for that code. Copy and paste that code into your post reply box here on this thread.

If you are still having trouble with this, reply again with questions and I'll try to walk you through it with image steps.

cool.  

o.k, I'm back. Tried this a dozen times, no luck. Sprue_one, Sorry you have to do this, but you offered. Step by step. By the way, this was more work then I anticipated. But like I told the Wife, I'm the envy of every 12 year old in the neighborhood.I gotta post PIC's!  

no problem, I'll put a step-by-step together and get back to you on here...  

ok, here it is.
I hope this is clear.

Open two windows while on-line. One logged into here and one logged into your photo bucket account.
After logging into your photo bucket account, find the image(s) you want to post.
Click on the IMG Code box. It will highlight.
Then- CTRL+C: copy from there
then- CTRL+V: paste to here.


Try this first.
If this does not function properly, reply here again and I'll try again.

cool, I want to see this project...