Back in August, I ran across the ad for this CT and it caught my attention due to the signplate it had on it. Thinking it was kind of interesting, I discussed it with my wife and got approval to go for it.
I made the arrangements and it was shipped. At the same time, we were given the news that Hurricane Dorian was going to be coming our way. The boxes arrived while the storm was hammering the Bahamas and kind of stalled movement wise. I opened the boxes to look at it briefly and locked it in the shed while we waited to see what Dorian was going to do. Time passed and then this behemoth storm moved further north and eventually away from us. Over the next couple of weeks there were other smaller windbags out there that also decided (Thankfully) to move on without hammering us.
As of the beginning of this week, I finally did some uncovering of the house windows and such, and got some ambition together to get further into working on this bike. I knew when I bought it that there were some pieces that weren't with it, but I thought I had those parts in the stash, so I went on with it. I had most of it nailed down but still had a few parts to hunt down, so I am now at the point were I am waiting for pedal parts. Pretty much everything else was here, and the attached photos show the beginning (from the ad) and the current state of progress as of the end of the day today. I wasn't looking to turn it into a restoration, just to refurbish it to a degree...
As it came:
And today's end of work:
I may put another photo up once the pedal parts are done, but this is the general idea I had in my head to begin with. I am looking around still for a little nicer crank/sprocket set-up, but this works for now.
With this out of the way, I can now get back to work on the white '48 CT2
Thanks for looking!!
REC
I made the arrangements and it was shipped. At the same time, we were given the news that Hurricane Dorian was going to be coming our way. The boxes arrived while the storm was hammering the Bahamas and kind of stalled movement wise. I opened the boxes to look at it briefly and locked it in the shed while we waited to see what Dorian was going to do. Time passed and then this behemoth storm moved further north and eventually away from us. Over the next couple of weeks there were other smaller windbags out there that also decided (Thankfully) to move on without hammering us.
As of the beginning of this week, I finally did some uncovering of the house windows and such, and got some ambition together to get further into working on this bike. I knew when I bought it that there were some pieces that weren't with it, but I thought I had those parts in the stash, so I went on with it. I had most of it nailed down but still had a few parts to hunt down, so I am now at the point were I am waiting for pedal parts. Pretty much everything else was here, and the attached photos show the beginning (from the ad) and the current state of progress as of the end of the day today. I wasn't looking to turn it into a restoration, just to refurbish it to a degree...
As it came:
And today's end of work:
I may put another photo up once the pedal parts are done, but this is the general idea I had in my head to begin with. I am looking around still for a little nicer crank/sprocket set-up, but this works for now.
With this out of the way, I can now get back to work on the white '48 CT2
Thanks for looking!!
REC