Recent content by chucchinchilla

I've noticed a significant increase in the stiffness of the fork with the truss rods compared to other bikes I have w/o them. It also increases the cool factor a fair amount as well (at least with me).

Love the build. I see you're doing something similar to what I just did to my '55 Columbia (see the thread below yours). I have to say, it was almost impossible to find an X-RD brake in single speed form. I had to email Sturmey-Archer to get a vendor that had one in stock. By the way, the brakes...

Hi all. Just joined the forms but I've been lurking since the summer and since I just finished a build I've wanted to do for a long time, thought now would be a good time to join and post it up. The bike is a 1955 Columbia that I found on Craigslist which was one of a dozen old bikes being...