the assembly begins

I got the wheels back. Nicely laced and trued by Cyclops cycles in Shawnee Kansas. They did a fantastic job and did it in just 2 days. The gears in the gearbox were shot. I ended up replacing all of them, I also bought a gearbox rebuild kit so it is effectively a brand new gearbox now. Strangely enough, after I put it all together, it worked. No one was more surprised than me. Building gearboxes will humble you. The disk brake looks lovely when you get up close too. I have the engine back, hopefully I will have time to reassemble it and put it back into the frame in the next couple weeks. The new belt drive kit is sitting on my kitchen table and will go on shortly afterwards.