Finished one bike project and started another!

 I have a '91 Miyata 914, the original miyata forks were bent and needed to be replaced,  I found these chrome Peugeot forks at a frankenbike to replace the bent ones, the steer was super long! like it came off a 65cm frame.  the threads needed to be extended to fit on my frame. I went down to good ole yellow bike to do this myself,  if  I had went to a bike shop to have this done, it would of been like 20 dollars an inch for threading. way out of my budget! So here are the results!

  

That day i also visited the Austin Bike Farm, its closed on mondays but the guy was there so he let us look around anyways, pretty cool place!  There I picked up this early 90's Raleigh MTB frame and fork for $25, its pretty sweet, its got aluminum main frame with cromoly stays, bb, and fork, pretty crazy the way the made bikes BITD.

 here is what it looked like in the catalog from '91

  

I wanted to strip the frame down to bare metal to shows its construction. 

I got this wire brush thing that attaches to a drill, it polished the metal nicely.

here is the final product! ready to be clear coated.

im thinking of adding some purple anodized parts

Should be a fun build!