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Dude. Not a difficult fix. Wrap tape, get ride of chainring or bring in a derailleur. Get rid of silly basket or extend rack, change fork to something lighter, modern tyres, shorten rear brake cable, and hey presto. Done.
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It's way different now, still a bit ugly though. Think I hate the rear rack even more than that front one. I've got some cheap black rattle-can paint, gonna blast the basket and the fork and will swap back from rear to front rack.
Apologies for my horrid phone camera
Edit: also removed big ring, will switch to a NW at some point. Anyway wasn't intending to showcase this bike, I just wanted to point out that those bars don't always work upside down
frankenbike
Sometimes... they were ugly as sin on my bike. Though maybe the all-round ugliness of the rest of it was a factor in that.