Originally Posted by Kabuki12

If you decide to build this up and ride it with anew fork , keep an eye on the head tube. . A friend got in a front end collision and turned the front wheel of his bike into a taco. The fork was fine, the top tube and down tube checked good . He replaced the wheels (both so they would match) and rode the bike . A year later the head tube cracked diagonally from lug to lug while he was riding. He said it felt like a flat tire. I never saw anything wrong when I critically examined the bike for him, no out of round or paint blemishes on the tubes .