I'm sure there's probably a few on here who reached this technology peak and realised that's enough modern things for now. It comes with the territory!?
Brilliant and thanks for this. It was going to be my approach, I doubt I have a large range of drill bits, but will see what I've got, and make a selection . I'm thinking slow and gentle drill speeds, maybe the battery one first!
Hiya, how would you remove this without heat? I've tried so far gently twisting with a wrench and GT 40 application. I don't want to apply heat and damage the paint. Alloy component meets steel 🙄Thanks! I'm thinking of drilling next but will need to go easy!
So I've bought it now, going to try and keep the original finish and slowly restore, I've got a six speed set up to install from around this era and some lovely mavic oxygen rims with a nice silver finish.
I came across this today, it's a tallish fillet brazed 26er in Columbus tubing, the fork is the non unicrown brazed type, almost like a biplane fork with reinforcement as part of the casting. It's going to be a reasonable price too. There's an 87 on the frame stamp on the BB. No name, just...
Not mine! Looks interesting. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395506530980?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=zibx3sfjrim&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=5IKo2FDVQB-&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
I've had two now! Great bikes, proper gates. That stem is a sakae mts100 I think? Looks slightly early for the bike. They were produced 1986-88 roughly. 531 fork 500 mains.