Dianne, thanks for the info from Sheldon Brown.

We have hooked up the road levers and V-brakes, but I haven't tried them out yet. I will be adding "Travel agents" which should take care of the short pull lever/direct pull V-brake mismatch. Those won't be in until later this week, but I plan to give it a little test ride (not downhill ) tomorrow.

We have also gone with the 34T road crank, removing the outer ring. I found someone who makes chain guards for $14 shipped BBG Bash guard, and will be putting one of them on the outside, with a Third Eye inner chain guard. We left the mountain derailleur and cassette and they seem to work OK with the 105 shifters.

I decided to go with an aluminum rigid fork from Spicer Cycles.

When it's all together I will post some photos. This is really a fun project! Hope I like how he (Frank) rides!