Silver soldering a bicycle frame boss - GIF

[McDesign]

Great story about that bike - called "Moby Dick".

It was originally purchased by my great aunt, in Asheville, NC, in the thirties when she was a teenager (she later played in the women's baseball league during WW2 - like in the movie A League of their Own).

Anyway - my dad, born in '37, learned to ride a bike on it - barely able to touch the pedals. Granddad would take him and his three brothers and three other bikes to the top of Mount Mitchell (6684' high), and they would coast down on the Blue Ridge Parkway, burning out the coaster brakes each time - but granddad had an automotive shop, so it was quick to reline the brake cylinder with truck lining scraps.

Around 1950, dad mounted an (outdoor gasoline-powered) washing machine motor on it, on the handlebars, driving the front wheel with a roller.

We got the bike, sans motor, from granddad in the '70s, and fixed it up and it was dad's normal bike again for bike rides with the family in GA. When I was thirteen or fourteen, maybe 76-77, I put my old 2 hp B&S go-kart motor on it in the pic you see above.

Now, I believe it's gone to a cousin who has restored it for his kids - in the foreseeable future, it will; reach its own "Century".

Forrest in Atlanta