Beautiful work! How often do you find bike parts in a dump? Is it that fruitful that you frequent them or did you spot this sticking out of a pile like a sword in a stone? Is it a large dump spanning acres? I admire your drive.. and also wonder just how mad you might be @Wildcat.
A bike shop went out of business when the elder family member passed on. As usual the family fought over money and it folded. All the new unsold frames were sent to the junkshop where they were for years until I showed up. Junk shops don't send anything out, everything is reused. This shop had stuff from WW2. Most of the frames were from the late 80's, never sold but I remember seeing them hanging up there at the shop and figuring how much to make a bike from one of them. Way too much more than a new bike, so they never sold. I saw the chrome one and got it. The guys at the shop were happy that they got 5 bucks for a frame and took me up stairs to more junk packed away. They had all the frames from that shop and dug them out for me. I think I got six or seven frames. I should have gotten all of them. They are all complete bikes now, hanging up in my shop. I went back a year later to get more but there weren't any except one old used frame. It's a complete bike also. Here's some of them:
Remember that the front end will drop when a rider's weight is added. It'll be closer to the original stance by an inch or two once the springs compress
