Front brake and rear fender

Well I just realized that the rear fender must have been rubbing during the whole half-hour ride yesterday, so I pulled it off and mounted the taillight on the rear bar:

 I also got my new front brake pulled apart only to find that it was almost in worse condition than the one I had, except this brake line and gasket were good:

I pulled it apart and combined the good parts from the two brake assemblies to make one good brake. I got it mounted and it worked - sort of. After cleaning the rotor and pad surfaces with some brake parts cleaner, it worked much better. Turns out some grease had gotten rubbed onto the rotor and was lubricating it...oops.

I took the front tire to get a new innertube installed. There's no way I want to go through that mess again only to find that I punctured the innertube....again.

The next step will be making a new seat...it should totally transform the look of the bike from "crappy bike from the '70s" to "sweet vintage racer." Or so I'm hoping.