that picture is about 10 or 15 years old. I still have the bike. I never did like that sidepull front brake, and the rear Sturmey Archer drum (installed circa 1980) never worked that well, and finally bent its unobtanium axle, so I put a spare set of mtn bike wheels on it, and had my buddy braze on some v-brake bosses, and wow, it can finally stop well. It looks like this with vbrakes......




SO now that it had good brakes (circa 2010), those gold fluted alloy bars, which were on the bike when I bought it 2nd hand circa 1978, finally cracked and broke, as did the fluted seat post. I replaced the bars with some generic cruiser bars I found at a local bike shop that specialized in cruisers... Sadly, the frame has a nasty 7/8" seat post, there's only like one made, cheap soft steel tube from Wald or something, and since I run the seat so high, I can bend it the first time I hit a firm bump sitting down. also the seat tube is too thin, and it cracked at the welds at the top tube, so I had my neighbor, a retired master boilermaker, MIG weld it. So, while the bike is still ridable, I don't feel its that safe for my 200+ lb butt, so I let my 140 lb daughter take it to the festival, and I ride my new hybrid.


btw, those are some late 70s KKT bmx pedals, and a vintage Sakae crankset The frame was made for Ashtabula, but has a square BB adapter installed in it. In that picture, it still had its 1970s Suntour V-GT rear derailleur, but shortly after that it wasn't shifting well, and I realized the top idler pulley had gone completely toothless, so now it has an Alivio or something on it, shifting a wide range 7 speed with the original suntour friction shifter.