Quote Originally Posted by DebW View Post
I'm just marveling at the pristine condition of that bike. It's like it was in a time capsule for 30 years with lots of silica gel packets. Those are the kind of bikes I sold and worked on in a bike shop in 1973-74. By rights that bike should have rusty steel rims and spokes that don't turn and stuck cotter pins. But just looking at it, I'm imagining that everything works as smoothly as the day it left the shop.
Given this, would it be wrong to customize it with albatross bars and a Brookes saddle? Wouldn't it be like putting a CD player in a '55 Chevy??
I don't know the "value" of such bikes, but I think there's something to be said...from a collector's point of view...for original equipment. Hold onto those parts, at any rate.....