Love this. I’ve got a chrome rigid mtb that I’m slowly converting into a tourer and really wish that it had lugs to sparkle like that.
I just put a VO headset on my recently acquired 531 LeJeune as the original was fully indexed and a clean & repack did nothing to make it safe. Honestly, I’m now liking it more than my <2k miles Kona Roadhouse (probably at least a little due to my preference for flat-bottom drops). The VO headset would need to be polished to match your build, but that doesn’t seem beyond your capability at all.
Too late now, but I’m curious why, having had the frame stripped, you didn’t have someone braze on brake posts instead of relying on the bolt-on post bracket.
If your commute is under 10 miles, heck yes on the bmx. If your traffic is like mine, though- front brake.
Last edited by hsuBM; 03-28-20 at 07:21 AM.