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!
-- 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!).
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> 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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> Jon Williams
> Grants Pass Oregon USA