I am picking up this older thread to catalog the completion of the actual rebuild of this bike. Its taken a while, since I got involved with a new group of friends and building something else instead:
I took the advice of the forum and got a new aluminum fork and the proper handlebars. They seem to weigh a third as much as the weird set up that was on the bike. The frame went to the powdercoater to get redone; and they had an equipment failure that put them 3 weeks behind. Just got the frame back and am collecting all the removed parts from a year ago...
