First of all thank you for dropping in here....
I'll show you some resto news from over the pond here fellas.
So here I go:
Bought a bike for 50 Usd somewhere in 2011 on a Dutch craiglist, looked like a National Pro
Full breakdown once back home in Belgium. Saw poor chrome and damaged dropouts.
The bummer here is that there were no NP forks on it
Though I had some luck that this was a National Pro Long.
After some research I saw that CW forks were very similar to NP forks, so I took one out of my shed and changed them into NP.
Flattened the back of the dropout and drilled a hole in it.
Took the frame and some other parts to my painter and picked a color.
He removed the old chrome with a sandblaster , then time achieved to take some care of the dropouts.
Welded the deep washer marks with bras. Edit (BRASS !! not the fish )
After this I've left the frame at the painters factory so the guy could do his job.
When the tubes were getting painted I was thinking which parts to put on the bike and collected everything together.
Some parts I had, others I had to buy or trade. Thanks to some of the locals here for the tyres, bars, grips and brake.
I had only 2 more things to restore, the stem and the pedals.
TN before:
TN after:
Hutch pedals before:
Hutch pedals after, with JDB cages
3 weeks passed by and the painter called me to get my frame back.
Stickered the frame with repro decals
So the time came to get this one assembled and I've finished this today.
I hope you like the result as much as I do , here it is folks !
Partlist:
Frame: National Pro Long frame
Forks: CW transformed to National Pro forks
Handlebar: GT Pro handlebars
Plate: Zeronine
Headset: Tioga beartrap II - Tange locknut
Padset: Repro National Pro padset
Grips: Oakley B2
Stem: Tuf Neck
Seatpost: Hutch
Seat: Elina Lightning bolt
Seatclamp: Dia Compe hinged double bolted
Crank: Terry Cable 170 mm
Chainring: Pro Neck 43T
Chaindisc: polished Tuf Neck
Chainring bolts: Tuf Neck
Pedals: Hutch brown bearing - JDB cages
Chain: Silver Izumi
Brakes: Dia Compe MX 1000 with Weinnman adjuster - Kool Stop pads
Brakelever: Dia Compe MX Tech 3 lever
Rims: Araya 7X chrome
Hubs: Bullseye red/blue
Tyres: Irc bmx racer Z-1 20 x 1.75
