DK BMX cruiser

I've been talking to a local guy at the Friday night rides who's my age & races BMX over by Nola. I thought it might be fun to try, plus there's a bunch of local guys into the big-wheel BMX scene here, so I started casually looking for something that might work. 
 

Friday morning this popped up on marketplace a couple miles away for $100, so I grabbed it from him after lunch(and invited him out to our rides).

So yesterday I picked a brake from one of the local guys, a stem from another one, hit up the shop down the street for some pedals, a chain, brake cable & stem spacers, then dug the bars/grips out of my parts stash(and also a seat today). Then took it for its maiden ride last night. I'm all-in for under $200. 
 

The paint looks much worse in person, but that's just one less thing I have to worry about keeping nice. 
 

It weighs about 21.5lbs according to the old bathroom scales I keep in the garage, but the bars & forks are steel & make it noticeably front-heavy, so I may eventually get around to replacing them. 
 

It rides smooth & accelerates pretty quick, so it seems like a pretty fun ride so far. 

I have an older diamond back cruiser that is the most ised bike in my fleet.  

This size bike is just about perfect imho.

Have fun with it!

My Redline cruiser is the only bike I have with geometry I can currently use. I need to get it out more often.

I've put 13-miles total on it over the last 3 nights. It rides smooth & accelerates quickly, but I think I'll need to step up from 42t chainring to a 44t for riding it around town. 

That reminds me. I need to pedal my fat ass over to mr. b's and get a new sprocket for my 29. 25/9 isn't great for a big bike. 

Well I've put 54-miles on it over the last 7-days. It's actually pretty comfy to pedal around, but the gearing definitely has me spinning at about 8mph or higher. 
 

The bottom bracket is getting noisy so I'm going to go ahead & replace it. I was surprised to be able to salvage it enough to use it at all, so no big surprise. 
 

Otherwise there's no major plans for right now. Once I get into shape enough that I think I can make it around a track at speed I'll head over to Gretna & check it out. At that point it might be time to think about lighter bars & fork, and maybe a better freewheel, but none of that is going to help me today. 

I ran my first race with the DK last night. Technically it was my 2nd race ever, but the last one was at least 40-years ago, so I'm not sure it counts at this point. 
 

The track is at Gretna, LA. Basically it's a southern suburb of NOLA, and not too far from NOLA Motorsports Park. There were 4 of us old guys signed up, though one dropped out before the start of the race(I'm not sure why). They put us all in the 46-50 Cruiser class(I'm 52), which is fine. There was only 1 other adult racing, the rest were all younger kids, with the exception of one teenager.

We ran 2 motos, then finals, and I ended up 3rd, 2nd & 2nd, so that's better than I anticipated. I was actually faster in the corners(I'm guessing from autox), and did ok in a couple of the rhythm sections, but struggled to find my groove in the rest of the track. Hopefully that will all improve with more practice & experience. 

There were only about 25-riders, so things moved fast & I didn't get a chance to take many pics. 

Awesome I raced my Sunday cruiser a few races the year before COVID. It was super fun. Here's one for us old guys at the BMX track!

In reply to NY Nick :

Very cool!