cb400bill,

Is the stuff you were reading about the flower on the web someplace, or in print?


and as to being "free", free is a relative term.
If someone carried this bike into the shop during the summer season while I was working I would probably have looked it over, then walked with them out to the new bikes after asking if they had an emotional attachment to the bike. Buying parts at full retail and paying someone else to do the work would put this bike at a negative value. But doing it as a hobby, having a few spare parts in baggies and bins, having a source or willingness to seek out discounts on parts, all can make this a worthwhile project.

Speaking of which I've got to go squirt a few drops of penetrant/lube onto the seatpost now that it is up to room temperature and has stopped dripping snow and ice off of it. Going to be interesting to see what the insides of the bottom end look like once I get that far into it.