Nice photo essay as well as a beautiful old bike. Me and my buddies did a lot of cruising on bikes like this back on long summer days in the late 50's. The only things missing that we would have added would be some streamer on the handlebar grips, a mirror or two and maybe a baseball card or two cloths pinned to a support to flap on the spokes and make a real racket as we cruised thru town. Elvis and Buddy on the transitor radio and our ball gloves hanging off the handlebars, yeah those were the days.