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This is the stem I’m using. Polished it up and slid it on the bars.Brooks leather grips. Leave it to the brits to take something so simple and make it 30 pieces. I counted the parts on my seat before I hacked it up. 35 parts! Anyway, I think they look cool. And definitely fit my euro/deco/rat...

My thoughts exactly! Nothing perfect going on this bike, even if it is a little shiny for a RRB. Just a good mix of cool parts- at least I think so!

Thanks! It’s starting to look like something! I like that the only paint on the bike will be that stripe on the hub!

Copper Stripe hub laced in. Old cream Duro brickyards that I scrubbed to death with Bleche-Wite to get them to look okay.

Woo hoo! This is probably the biggest reveal for this build. I was so excited to put these together that I had the spokes in before I took a pic. They are copper plated and then Clear Powdercoated. Electra drop center wheels, rear hub is a red stripe (now a copper stripe). Bars are new Wald...

Seat post was basically rust. I polished on it for a good hour. You really won’t see any of it anyway. So I have this Brooks Seat I like, but l really don’t like the hairpin in the front. So I chopped it off. Polished everything else up and found a way to bolt it all back up. Hoping to...

And now you have a sweet vest to wear when you ride!?!

The only “gimme” on this bike was the OG/Wald dog leg and chain wheel that were in good condition. not much rust on the crank and there was even a little copper showing through. It doesn’t look like there is any way to date these. Just says Wald in the center. Polished up and installed.

Stacking the deck with that Steve VanDemon pinstriping! My buddy sent me a photo this morning and said “I wonder if this guy is in the same competition as you?” Looking good, man. Definitely one of my favorites.

I see what you did there.

Pennies, you say? I bought 50, all 1936, for like 9 bucks. I drilled them out to use as washers. Starting with the seat stay bolts, since they weren’t OG anyway. Stainless acorn nuts, copper penny washers. It’s legal, I checked. Used a stainless Allen bolt under the fork. Wasted a week deciding...

These are the last two incarnations of the Shelby. First with the white parts and then a rebuild with the black last summer. It’s a fun rider.

No photo updates because nothing has happened. Tore apart the garage to cobble together a headset but just didn’t have the parts. My options at this point are wait for the SoCal Cycle swap This Sunday and hope I get lucky, or take apart my Shelby “rust bike” for its headset. I have never...

Thanks man!

There isn’t much you can do, although the better they’re polished the longer they seem to last. At least that’s true in the billet wheel world. People are starting to clear coat polished aluminum with Ceracote clear. it’s an extremely durable ceramic paint that I believe was originally used on...

Thank you sir, much appreciated!

Okay, I’m satisfied and ready to move on. It’s shiny, and I can still hit spots with never dull if think it needs it. I never found an early style headset, so I’m going to have to go digging for whatever I have.

Right!! This will be two for me.