Sunday, 13 May 2012

This is a picture of the struts mounted on the bike. Once the struts were on I could mount the mudguard. The mudguard was made from a cheap steel trailer mudguard, which I cut the sides off, and bent in a bit to give it a more rounded profile. The strip down the middle is a piece of 8mm round bar that I cut in half lengthways and carefully welded on to give the appearance of a ribbed pressed steel mudguard from the 60's. It'll look better when it's been fillered and painted. The mudguard mounts are brass plumbers pipe brackets, they're about £2 each, and add a nice brassy touch. I'll try to get some brass dome nuts for the suspension/strut mounts to continue the look a bit. You can see the bike was previously painted bright yellow and then black where the paint is flaking off the wheel. I'm going to sandblast that all off to bare aluminium to match the front wheel.

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