What a beautiful restoration of a really beautiful bicycle. In some respects lightweights of this era show me more engineering thought put into them and more elegant aesthetics than we see on later examples.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham, Washington USA
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:55 AM, John Wood <braxton72@gmail.com> wrote:
> Holy smokes! As I'm not that interested in bikes from this period, I was
> not even going to check out the post - but boy am I glad I did. Simply
> unbelievable what you have done to this bike. I wouldn't have thought it
> was possible to take a bike in that condition and wind up with the finished
> product shown. Since I almost passed it up, I thought I'd try to call
> others attention to this post. Everyone on the list should see this, IMO.
> Take a look everybody, you will be amazed and delighted. Thanks for sharing
> Jon. And thanks for putting the time and $ into this restoration, I'm sure
> it wasn't cheap! I'll be downloading those pictures to my hard drive!
>
>
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> John Wood
> Washington Island, Wisconsin, USA
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Otis <otis@otisrecords.com> wrote:
>
>> Some of you may remember the yard sale teens Pierce Racer that looked like
>> it was pulled from the Mariana's Trench I posted awhile back. Well it's
>> finally back together and got ridden around the block a few times today.
>> Still a few things to do. The Brooks Pro shown is temporary until Tony
>> Colegrove gets finished rebuilding the original Brooks Champion that came on
>> the bike. I need to find some better hardware to attach the headbadge, and
>> still need to find the elusive "racer" headbadge that goes under it.
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>> I learned a lot on this one and would do things a bit different if I could
>> do them over. But all in all it came out very nice, and considering the
>> found condition I do not feel too bad about straying from exact originality.
>> I'm also proud of being able to save every original piece that came with the
>> bike except for the rims, spokes, grips, and ball bearings. A lot of time
>> went into saving that Reynold block chain that was rusted soild enough to
>> mount a mailbox on!
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>> Keith Anderson did the paint and stencils for the lettering. The "Racer" on
>> the downtube was copied from the "Special Racer" lettering on Dale's Pierce
>> (could not wait any longer for your pics Dale!).
>>
>> Old school insane pin-striper (now local) Joey Madden did the lining. And a
>> local plating shop handled all the nickel plating.
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>> The quality of these bikes is pretty impressive and it was really nice to
>> work on. The seat-stays, chain-stays, and rear drops are some of the sexiest
>> ever!
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>> Thanks to all the list members that helped out.
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>> Here's some pics:
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>> Jon Williams
>> Grants Pass Oregon USA