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Old 03-21-22 | 05:45 PM
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From: W. Tennessee

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Thanks for the compliments everyone, much appreciated. The frame is so lovely on its own, essentially all I did was guild the lilly.

My original intent was to use Campy Grand Sport gear which I already had and which would have been correct I think, but after seeing examples with Simplex, Huret and Benelux gear I knew I had to take that route and aesthetically it was the right decision.
As for the crankset, I had a bid in on a re-chromed Chater Lea on the 'Bay and was winning but had an urgent issue I had to deal with, lost track of time and missed out on defending for the win. It went for a really good price so I was kicking myself. But I found this crankset NOS at VeloSaloon in Austria, they id'ed it as a "Smutney" which I had never heard of and have been unable to find anything on in searching. I like that it has chainring mount integrated into the crank arm like the CL - and maybe a somewhat more refined appearance, a thing of beauty and probably just as well things turned out like they did.

Late in the game I stumbled across a pair of CL pedals for very little money, good thing since I was almost tapped out at that point. Those will be perfect for this but I need to strip, derust and nickel plate the barrels, they're pretty rough. I can do that at home so I'll get to it eventually, but for now the TA's look fine.
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