Lilac Flying Scot

This Flying Scot came in for a rebuild. We were appalled by what had been done to it and rebuilt it with sympathetic parts from the 1970s and 2020 . It has an R frame number, making it from 1950. The headset is the old clip type and was still in good condition and was used again with new ball bearings. The seatpost was the only other part we were able to reuse. As none of the other components were original we didn't worry about fitting period correct parts. This made the job far easier and the bike work better.  Frankly most 1950s components are terrible.   More in the captions.