Originally Posted by
clubman
The black bars with grey grips and silver levers do it for me.
The grey grips were a last-minute idea. I ordered some black bullet grips off eBay, but I realized they were not soft - enough so that the ribbing through the surface bit into my hand without my even putting pressure on it.
Once I had the levers on the bike, I realized it wouldn't look right to have the center of the bars black, the levers silver, and the ends return to black. I had a spare pair of Peter's grips, and seeing as I've enjoyed them for many years on my '51, it was an obvious choice.
Originally Posted by
BFisher
Neat build, Kurt. Really cool to see an outboard BB on a Sports.
It sounds wild, but it was the easiest way to get a crank that didn't immediately look like a 5-pin, replaceable-ring road crankset, which - IMHO - looks wrong on a city bike; like mags on a Lincoln Continental.
Finding a Raleigh Chopper Mk-III square-taper heron crank turned out to be impossible. When I saw this crank on Ali Express, it made sense. Too bad that lettering won't come off.
-Kurt