Thanks guys. Yes it was a test of patience indeed. I had to walk away and sleep on it. The frame was powder coated so the holes were tight and needed reaming out. I mounted 1 and 2 and they were close to lining up. Manipulating the 2 pipes a bit I could get the threads in the hole by kind of screwing it in. I resorted to some persuasion with a 2 lb. sledge and a drift. When there was enough threads showing I put a nut on it and pulled it through that way. 3 and 4, after sleeping on it, I went back to the instructions, translated from Japanese, which said to swing 3 out, put the bolt in it and swing it back in to get the bolt in the hole which worked. It didn't work last night. I held the pipe in place and added 4 and pushed the bolt through. This time it went in and again a little persuasion and it went through. Same drill with the nut. God help me if I have to take them off!
They do look nice.
This bike is kind of an homage to one I crashed and destroyed putting it into the driver's door of a car that ran a stop sign. Purchased the bike July 1969, killed it August 1969. Probably a sandcast.
Cliff.
