A quick update: Managed to unbend the original front fork after all, hacked off the braze-ons, and started putting bits together to see what I'm going to need to finish (the wheels are off my other UO-8 for sizing purposes, I'll be building Nashbar alloy rims on vintage 60's German hubs with wing nuts). Given I'm doing fork tweaking, this bike is going to get a serious amount of shakedown riding before I go spending money on the powder coater. Hopefully will find nicer bars at Westminster - the spec ones are Raleigh Sports flipped upside down, and they are beat. Long term plan is to have two rear wheels for it: the German hubs as a single speed (fixie is wasted on me, I love coasting downhill) and a Sturmey-Archer something or other as an alternate. Now, on to the wheel building!



Bear with me on the pictures, I'm still trying to figure the new system out.