Finished with this bike. Its as far as it will go.
From here it will go to the back of the line to do a standard maintenance and cleaning project at some time in the future. I guess this can be considered its final mock-up. Whats left to do will be that some time in the future the frame will be re-painted and all that entails. I used a different type of primer on this one and the blue is crazing, chips pop off easily also. Just not satisfactory. When I do that I will polish the wheels and replace the front "approved hub from the 70's with a 63' Sprint and the rear TCWIII with a S3C. I'm also considering a rack.
The Miller lights have been removed from their dynamo chains. The front has a battery pack inside and an on/off switch. I'm mulling around drilling a small hole in bottom side of the top tube at either end and running a power wire to the rear inside the top tube. I dont like all the wire clutter so much.
Other than that, I will be tweeking-in the seat and handlebar height here and there but I'm calling it done.
I've got no more parts to hang on it.... maybe a rack.....
The final changes were getting a bobbed rear fender to fit and look right and to get the handlebars up higher. The answer being to go to a 22mm fork head i.d. I bought it with the front end crunched and replaced it all with that of a 71' Collegiate. That gave my 64' frame a 21mm head i.d. Not an infinite amount of choices for 21mm stems. It gave way to a fantastic Chro-Mo Tange fork and then I thought I was going to replace the Tange (21mm also) fork with an original Schwinn locking fork. I got everything together to do that but found this particularly resplendent fork at the Salvage and it got the nod instead. It is a Reynolds 531 fork with Japanese tips and a chrome head. No other markings so I dont know what it came off but it is a 22mm i.d. fork and the ride is sublime. No jarring thumping down the street (Here in Tucson the streets are terrible). I pick the light weight and compliance of this fork over the coolness of a locking fork I wont use for anything but looks.
The fork allowed me to use the long stem Double-adjustable that's been waiting in the wings and now the bike rides super smooth and comfortable at 31lbs.
