Cleaning up Winnie
{This is actually a guest post by Nicki about her ’51 CCM-built Garry.}
My first post on Loop-Frame Love! Very exciting! Hope everyone can put up with me. I’m a complete novice and this whole process is definitely a learning experience for me. Feel free to correct me in the comments.
As you know, I’ve acquired a 1951 CCM! She’s gorgeous and has since been christened “Winnie”.
Last weekend was our bicycling cleaning party. Myself, Deborah, and Angel took on the task of cleaning up Winnie with a little Rust-Cure and investigating her a bit more closely.
We started with some disassembly. We took off her basket (which took a bit of time. Yeesh.) and we also removed the electric-taped wiring from the generator/Miller dynamo light. The wire was pretty much shot and will definitely have to be replaced.
[Editorial note from Deborah: you can also see the holes where the headbadge rivets would have been in the photo above – they helped confirm the CCM hypothesis, along with the 1951-era serial number stamped into the frame right under the seat.]
Another exciting discovery: it turns out that there are tiny reflectors in my handles! Upon realizing this, my excitement level hit an all time high – imagine being 6 years old and having streamers in your handles. That’s how I felt!
Finally, here’s a picture of my less dirty chain wheel. Rather than me attempting to elaborate and possibly mix things up, I’m just gonna quote Deborah here:
Very cool stuff! And this is only the beginning!
3 thoughts on “Cleaning up Winnie”
Last time I looked, EBC (http://edmontonbikes.ca) had a couple of those big long reflectors kickin’ around. Couldn’t promise that it’d be the exact vintage, or even have the correct hole spacing, but I can promise that it’d be cheap!
Cheers,
Chris
I definitely see a trip to EBC in our immediate future…like ASAP….I’m just saying 😛
Nicki, I think you should get Winnie painted something similar to this
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4848263/albatross1-main_Full.jpg
It’s a bit much, but I KNOW you can pull it off!!
Definitely need to check out EBC. Thanks for the tip Chris!
Angel, I can’t even lie… I love that! It *is* a bit much, but then again, I’m a bit much. So woo!!
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