Cinelli rat rod project

 Collectors will not be happy with this build but I am not trying for period-correct immaculateness . I just want to be the first person to ride this thing in decades. This frame was in a box in the rafters of Ed Litton's shop at the time he died and when all the goods of the shop were being sold off I wound up buying a pile of frame building stuff with this on the top of the pile. I knew there must be something wrong with it , otherwise it would have been restored and in the hands of someone other than me. What was wrong was that the head tube was a bit ovalized from being ridden with a loose headset. I managed to find headset cups that fit into the frame tight enough for my use- mainly riding with a bunch of like minded folks on other old bikes on January 1st. I hope that I can get the last stuff finished in the next few days. It might look like I'm nearly done but bike projects such as this wind up with all sorts of issues and roadblocks the closer it seems to getting completed. You might think that all the difficult stuff is done and sure, a lot of it is but the unforseen is the unforseen and one cannot predict what that will be and if there's a solution in the shop . I should know by Wednesday afternoon if this beat to death 1959 Cinelli 'B' will be hitting the road on the 1st. Wish me luck. The boxes of parts in the loft are seemingly well stocked but a lot of the stuff up there is in boxes for various reasons- der's that are twisted, headsets and bottom brackets with bad bearing surfaces , brake calipers with twisted arms- all manner of maladies. Out of all of this bike-part chamber of horrors I hope to birth a bike that rides ok and that's about all I can reasonable hope for. No repaint for this old warrior-I want it to show its years and evidence of its likely many campaigns .I have not ridden many Cinelli's and I don't remember what special characteristic that they might have that has captured the imagination of bike collectors over the decades. I guess that means I'll be giving a ride report in the future..........