So These Two Hawthornes Walk Into A Bar

[soddruntlestuntle]

Picked up this pair of pre-war Hawthornes from fellow CABER and all-around goodguy @KingSized HD over the weekend. They're both scruffy, with mis-matched parts and paint by Sherwin Williams, but the price was more than right and I'm pleased as punch.

First, the Snyder-built Twin Bar:

Yeah, it's gonna need a new fork.

HD says those flat bars are called 'Fresno bars'-- how appropriate.

And the double bar:

This one came as just a frame, fork, and Colson crankset. But I had this maroon drop center wheelset lying around, quite a nice color combo.

The bars and stem are just placeholders, looking to find something a bit more racy.

And definitely going to need a couple headbadges.

 

[soddruntlestuntle]

Been doing some parts swapping on these two-- put the flat bars and black fenders on the DBR, and some blue fenders from a Hiawatha I've been parting out, along with a set of crossbars I had lying around, on the twin-bar. Quite happy with the results so far. And they both received head badges.