20 November:  I thought I was done with but I have left some thing out that I want to cover.

I said "It doesn't hurt any to live close to a hardware store if you plan on doing this".  I have to thank the folks at Ace Hardware on Union Hills.  Every time I go in the store these folks are helpful.   They blow Home Depot and Lowe's away for customer service.  If you need a bike cable thay have it.  Loctite, of course,  bolts, steel rods whatever it takes.  They will locate what you need even if it is a $.15 special washer. 

Having put a few miles on my conversion I have come up with some things that just needed to be done.  I have a center mounted kickstand, but the bike tends to lean to one side a bit.  I really don't want the bike to fall over,  I added two solid rubber drain stoppers   I drilled holes through the centers  and added them to to stand,  The bike is much stabler just sitting around or if I am working on it.  To get the bike off the ground I just put a 2 x 6 under the stand to get the wheels off the ground.

When I bought my bike I got a Schwinn Bike Light kit.  When it was just my ride around bike these worked ok, but I did not ride the bike at night very much.  First trip out at night and I realize that the front light is just not bright enough to go down the bike path at night.  the back light is just fine and pretty noticeable when it is pulsing away.  The batteries on the front light are going dead.  Guess what?  The batteries are 2 "C" cell batteries of which I have none around the house.  I started looking at alternatives.  "Oh My God"  the choices for lights is wild.  The engine cost me $250.  Some of these lights cost over $300.  It is no wonder that most bikes don't have lights.