Originally Posted by markk900

OK OK ...I get it.... I'm a Nutella guy and its breakfast time. (No, literally I am eating breakfast as I write this).

I have an email into True North (as they are the local builder to me), but given this was never intended to be a museum restoration I am going to pursue the replacement fork path. I already have one so just need to find a headset that fits and I should be OK.

I had the rest of the frame pretty much stripped to bare metal (including the stays) and found no rust (in fact, the frame looked amazing all shiny and "new"). There's a bit of pitting through the chrome at the dropouts but not an issue. And a flashlight down the seat tube reveals nothing unusual.

Clearly the bike was in a collision at some point in the past - the rust may have been concentrated on the fork if there was a previous repair.
@devinfan - I used to live on Carlaw - might go there just for old times' sake.

I am now considering using some other newer components (since originality is now shot). For the pictures in a previous thread I had a set of VO bars and and SR stem mounted and they looked sweet. The original bars are cool but look horrid. I will be replacing the rims (rust) so those will be modern as well, and the original saddle is MIA so that is being replaced. I do want to get out on that frame - its calling to be ridden again so I might follow that direction for now and take time (and money) to get the rest of the bike back in order - then rebuild with the original stuff as much as possible.