A while ago, I picked this 1975 Raleigh Pro Mk.IV up, along with "Leo" the Bottecchia from an LBS. Local guy would chrome these things for the shop about five years ago, until said chromer retired.
It doesn't
look like a bad job - except for the plated-over headbadge. But I have no idea whether this thing was baked to get the hydrogen embrittlement out of it.
The worst thing is that he had a chromed time trial funny bike that had been crashed too...and the BB had cracked all the way around on it.
Now I'm paranoid - enough that somedays I wish this beautiful thing would turn into an SBDU instead
Opinions? Am I building up a tubeset of inevitable failure? Throw it together and throw caution to the wind (easy to say when it's not your wallet)? Chuck it up on the alternate forum to get it to someone willing to make it wall art? Hem and haw over it for the next 10 years?
-Kurt