What a fantastic Swift, Wavshrdr - a true collaborative work of art - it made me come out of lurking on this board :-)

I noticed that you've got the curved front forks, as opposed to the stock straight ones on your alu frame - your attention to detail means you must have specced those, right? I think you got it just right, the curved forks match definitely the aesthetic you were aiming for. But was there a technical reason as well? I only ask because I rode a couple of Swifts of Peter's in Brooklyn, which had straight and curved forks, but I couldn't tell the difference in ride (they're both cro-mo?).

You must post pictures of your bike with a rack, when you fix it up...a rack is the final piece of the puzzle for my swift (I'm not sure about the resilience and 'foldability' of a seat-post attached rack)