CCM Regal (pic heavy)

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I have been wanting to put together my ultimate daily rider for a while now and had some spare time while I was waiting for parts for my build off bike, Captain Slow:

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I picked up a 1943 CCM camelback off craiglist a few months ago, I paid way too much for it but I have been looking for a larger framed 28" wheel bike for a while. The wheels, bars, seat & seatpost were all add ons so they went straight into the parts bin. This is what I had to work with:

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Nice crankset with unusual knife edged arms:

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Grease port on the BB:

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The parts list

Brooks B66 seat
13/16`laid back seatpost from porkchop bmx
Chain, pedals, headset and other small parts from Chaingang Lowrider
Nitto Promenade handlebars
Schwinn truss rods
Bendix Automatic Red band hub on a 700c rim
Cream Electra City 700 x 40c tires

The first thing to do was a mock up to see how things fit together. The first problem is that the truss rods were meant for a 26 inch wheel, not the 28 inch forks that I have on the bike:

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Quick sollution was to cut the ends off an old set of cheap springer forks I had kicking around. I had already used the spring assembly on another build so no hard feelings taking a dremel to them...

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A couple of bolts later, all is good.

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Everything seems to fit ok apart from the fact that the frame is a little tweaked in the back. Had to bend the rear triangle with a 2 x 4 just to get the chainstay to line up. The seatstay is still off by half an inch but the wheel fits in ok.

Time to strip the paint. A couple of coats of cheap rattle can orange came off no problem.

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A few dings in the rear stays form years of putting on dynamo lights.

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Serial number finally readable:

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I went with Krylon Regal Blue (hence the name) as it was the closest to an old step thru frame that was at a local bike shop in Toronto, I loved the colour combined with some faded gold pin striping. Two coats of self-etching primer, one coat of regular primer and 4 coats of Krylon later.

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Time for some gold...

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After the pinstriping was done I went over it all with 0000 steel wool to dull the gold down a little and then put four coats of clear on top.

This is were I forgot to take photos during reassembly... :oops:

Final assembly completed (sorry about the photos, I used my cell)

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I`ll take some better photos with my camera once the sun comes back again :D
 
at first i was like :) oh, thats nice. then i saw the gold and was like :shock: thats awesome. thats awesome!
 
Super clean, I like what you have done. The striping panels and colors are so nice.
 
That is SWEEEEET :shock: Diggin' the gold lines on the frame, very creative 8)
 
Holy Smokes that turned out Awesome!! Those colors with the tires look NiiiiiiiCE!!
 
The Gold pin striping does push it over the top!
 
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