One dirty Hawthorne

[Mr. Monkeyarms]

You may be able to use 0000 steel wool to lightly knock the gloss finish to a satin finish to better match the frame paint. Or polish/wax the frame to match the chainguard. $.02

 

[CURTIS L LINDGREN]

Alright , enough of this .....................................PLEASE SHOW THE whole BIKE !!!!!!! Thank You ....

 

[Balloonoob]

@CURTIS L LINDGREN Here's where it's at today. Saddle may be next. Needs greased and covered. Pretty squeaky. Also i think the forks are a bit bent as when i ride with no hands it wants to veer left so I have to lean right to even it out. I do have a matching replacement fork or i could fix the one on the bike that has matching paint.

 

[CURTIS L LINDGREN]

Painting the Chain Guard helped A LOT ! Those Handlebars look pretty good on that bike. Nice choice on the background for your Photo . It Looks GOOD ! Thanks for posting the picture .

 

[Balloonoob]

Well I covered the saddle a while back it's better but the prewar Mesinger is not really comfortable for long rides. Just got an egg crate rack from @tech549 it's in great shape but is resting on the back fender. I need to drop both fenders a bit (you can see the fender gap). I plan on painting the rack red to match (which was painted black previously) and probably put this delta light on it that i got a while back from @CURTIS L LINDGREN I had the Denver license plate on the seat stays but I think it will look good attached to the truss rods on the front. I rose the seat up which will take some getting used to (the handlebars seem to want to bonk my knees now) but getting more leg extension will help. Btw I think these forks look slightly bent. I'm hoping they are and it's not the headtube that's crooked. Thoughts?

 

[Mr. Monkeyarms]

Kinda hard to tell but steer tube might be half a squirrel to the right. Use a carpenters square on top of the fork crown with the bearing race removed. The steer tube should be perpendicular with the crown all the way around.