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Not really a build, more of a light rehab. I picked this up this Newsboy from Double Nickle, I really like the colors from the age.
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Didn't want to mess with it much so I cleaned and sprayed with a satin polyurethane.
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I will be knocking the rust and cleaning the chrome parts.
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More parts to clean!
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Parts waiting on assembly.
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Great work at preserving that patina. It tells a story and is looking great!
 
Great work at preserving that patina. It tells a story and is looking great!

+1 That's the perfect patina! Can't wait to see the finished product!
 
Trying to keep this as original as possible, so far I will have to change the stem bolt (broke it) and I will be using some ratty/yellowing whitewalls I have in my stash. Everything else I am just cleaning/greasing and reusing.
 
Ther aint nothing like those Big Old Balloon Fenders !


~RafaeL~
 
Looks good!
Chains do break sometimes, it was probably stretched anyway...
I hope you weren't standing up and pedalling hard when it broke, that can seriously hurt when you suddenly go flying over the bars...

Luke.
 
Looks good!
Chains do break sometimes, it was probably stretched anyway...
I hope you weren't standing up and pedalling hard when it broke, that can seriously hurt when you suddenly go flying over the bars...

Luke.
That has happened to me twice now. first was crossing an intersection. stayed on the bike, but the pedals got the best of me. second time, I ended up off a curb and into some very rough asphalt. it sucks!
 
That has happened to me twice now. first was crossing an intersection. stayed on the bike, but the pedals got the best of me. second time, I ended up off a curb and into some very rough asphalt. it sucks!
First time for me was actually a freewheel fail on the way up a big dirt jump, over the bars, into the gravel, run over by the bike and fell off the back of the ramp, that one hurt...

Luke.
 

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