The History behind the New Hiawatha

[Joe Buffardi]

Wow man!! Just wow!!!

 

[Robertriley]

"Skippy" is in and getting put all fixed up.

 

[bicycle larry]

thanks so much for putting this on the cabe chris ,yes skippy for sure!!!!

 

[Robertriley]

A couple updates on Skippy. The fork is at Joe's house. I cleaned off some 75 year old dirt and hand rubbed some color back into it.

 

[Robertriley]

It's getting there

 

[Handle Bar Hoarder]

It's getting there
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man you are so good at cleaning up these bike,s nice job look,s good

 

[bobcycles]

Wow Great story ! how often do you get that lucky with such a find and wonderful back story?

Good work!

 

[Robertriley]

I just received these two photos from Les. He was digging through an old box of photos when he stumble onto them. Harold, the original owner, is on the left in both photos. He messaged me both of these photos while I was in Hawaii visiting two WW2 military sites.

 

[Euphman06]

Nice clean up!

 

[Robertriley]

Nice clean up!

Thanks, I like the story even more than the clean up