Originally Posted by cudak888

It does. It deserves a thread about how basing a claim on one previously altered picture and circumstantial evidence isn't enough to back or broadcast a claim as significant as "this is Mahatma Gandhi's bicycle" to the world.

Even if this bike does have a meaningful claim to Gandhi (the chances of it being the same bike in the photo is slim to nil), there couldn't be any better example of handling a relic of this significance improperly by brutally blasting off whatever originality it had in a sandblaster - chrome crank and brass headbadge included - and then (apparently) leaving it bare.

Sorry to be the killjoy, but even with limited resources, this "restoration" can only be upheld as a shining example of what not to do, and the claims linking this bike to its owner are also a fantastic example of completely failing to do even the slightest bit of evaluation upon already limited research.

-Kurt

/end critique - back to the regularly scheduled thread of tools off the side of the road.