Before (after pulling it out my flooded apartment October 2005)



Yesterday:



I'm going to be doing some upgrades on it soon, especially the front wheel and headset. I wrapped the bars last night. It's basically stuff I've aquired over the last year and some bits out the drawer at the local co-op so nothing special, but I was just so excited to get it back in ridable form after a year of having it sit in my storage shed looking sad I wanted to post a picture of it. SS for now.

I do have a question though.... When I pulled the frame out I framesaved the HELL out of it... almost a whole can. That was in December of 2005. Before I built it up, while the bottom bracket and old headset were off I banged all over it with a rubber mallet to loosen up the rust on the inside... it sounded like a friggin' rainstick! How scared should I be to ride it? I had a couple people look at it and they didn't seem too frightened. It doesn't seem to have any structural damage.... but is this inevitable?