If I recall correctly, the Bay area only has a few days of rain during the short winter months, and the roads are too oily to ride, so WTF with fenders guys?

Cream tires are very hip with chicas, so are whitewalls. I think the OP's bike looks perfect, but for those Wald newsboy baskets. I had a pair on my Schwinn Collegiate, but I actually delivered newspapers. Doesn't something less utilitarian exist, like a wooden wine box?

Is that the original paint on the Espree? WOW