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Late 70's. I remember quite a few of these in my neighborhood when I was a kid. Looks like it will clean up real nice!

Rule number one is that there are no stupid questions... :) Yes, that would work as long as you use a freewheel and not a coaster brake. You'll need a 3/32" chain and a freewheel sized for the narrow chain but it should work fine. There were a few BMX bikes that tried that setup with a double...

Got mine in!

Those are all cool! I always liked your builds!

How many speeds is the bike? Single speed coaster brake used one thread count, five speed used another, and the Sturmey Archer three speed is a real oddball.

Raleigh-built bike.

Wait... What? He finished one???? ;)

Those were from Electra. Not sure if they are still available or not.

Time to go ride!!!

These bars came off of a pre-war Schwinn DX that I turned into a Klunker... Love Klaxon horns! Had to use this. The chainguard from the other bike was coaxed into fitting on this one. Took a bit of finesse to get everything happy... With the rest of the parts fitted, we now have something...

With the frame stripped of everything and the ugly red Rollfast supplying most of the parts, I was good to go. I did want to do a few other upgrades. Let's see what's in the parts bins... I wanted a three piece crank and had this bottom bracket adapter sitting around doing nothing. I like...

You need to come in the fall for the big car show. Lots of goodies there!

I started looking it over and noticed everything was really solid and not beat up. I liked the peaked fenders with the way cool stripes. The frame was an interesting design too. It was plenty rusty but not pitted at all. More like that great barn find patina... It was growing on me fast and then...

So I bought this... To get this... The bike was $20 and I've seen those little badges sell for more than that and I kind of wanted one for a while. Didn't need the bike but i figured it might look good in one of my flower beds... Hmmmm. I have this left over, now what?

It's over at Penn State's Harrisburg campus which is a couple miles from my house. I love using it for photo shoots. It looks fantastic at dusk!

Super clean! Also my favorite name this year!

I'm still getting the internal server error message with some of my photo edits. Hopefully there is enough of the build stage posted... Don't want folks to think elves showed up in the middle of the night and turned a crusty bare frame into a complete bike! ;)

You could always do a rear disc brake. These Shimano units came on cheap 10-speeds in the mid 70's and are still affordable and somewhat common. Fairly easy to work with too.

Oooh! Good point! Let me go fix that... Thanks!

Ran out quick to get a couple fountain pix for Kingfish... ;)