La Esperanza

[chattymatty]

Crickets...crickets...crickets... At that "lots of time, not a lot to show for it" phase right now, but basically component cleanup is done. Acid bathed the worst of the scale and got a quick coat of wax on things to hold them steady, unfroze the chain, repacked bearings and the freewheel and such.

clean but not too shiny

Pedals are shot, I'll need to track down a used Brooks I can afford, and then the really hard decision comes- wide whites or blackwalls. Prolly have to assemble the whole bike before my muse speaks to me on that one.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Parts are looking good!

Luke.

 

[kingfish254]

Glad to see your making progress. Keep plugging away.
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[chattymatty]

Woot! Dago represent lol. Finally something resembling real progress to report. Mr. Postman dropped of a 'just this side of cherry' 59 Jaguar frame with just the right mix of patina and shine allowing me to finally at least get to the mock up stage. Also broke down and bought some Duro tires- had my eyes on some OG snakebelly whitewalls but just couldn't bring myself to pay $100 for used tires that with my luck I'd tear installing. A little makeshift 'weathering' and these are pretty tolerable. Other than cables and tubes, everything else will be period correct for the summer of '82.

I think I might even run reflectors just for the hades of it, and maybe a chainguard if I can find a Feather in black for a decent price...

 

[chattymatty]

First day of summer and first shakedown run- it rides, it shifts, it stops. Second day of summer and second shakedown run... it breaks the chain. I just HAD to try to save the rusty old chain for the 'patina' lol.

Not ready to move it to the "done" column yet (seat and post are temporary) but at least my arms are as red as I presume my posterior to be...

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Looks good. I love the Bicycle Dealers Assn. decal also!