Originally Posted by Abe_Froman

Restoration in all honesty is probably a bit overstating what I'm doing. A more accurate term would probably be 'Fix Up and Make Less Ugly.' I'd honestly never done more than fixing flats/basic maintenance on bikes before this summer. But, my father in law gave me this bike out of his garage when he was moving out of his house, and I figured it would be a fun project.

It's sort of snowballed! I built a workbench in my garage, bought a bunch of tools, spent hours stipping all the rust off of this bike, overhauled the bottom bracket and headset. It rides very well now, and looks reasonably good. Almost all of the chrome is shiny again, and the frame really isnt all that bad, though it does not look great. It has very little rust on it, but LOTS of scrapes and chips down to the red primer underneath. I work at a car dealership, so I think I'll try using some black touch up paint on the worst spots and see how it looks. I talked to one of our body shop vendors and he said he could paint the frame properly for $200. We'll see how the touch up paint works first.

The fenders are pretty much toast I think. Rusty and pretty badly dented. I'm thinking some new chrome fenders might look nice. I'm not particularly concerned about original.

I've now got a '77 Schwinn Sierra I 'fixed up' with new tires/wheels/handlebars/cables and converted to a fixed gear.