Some updates that are actually of my bike and not the shiny stuff others have kindly been posting in my build thread!
It’s ended up being a functional rather than a shiny shiny build. There have been so many of this model done on here and on eBay that I’m not going to be showing you anything new! There’s stuff I’ve had to replace like the cables and outers with the nearest I could find as they were just shot, cables rusted in etc. Brake pads for now are the wrong sort, I’ve got a load of dia compe correct ones buried somewhere but can I find them?!
I ended up rebuilding the wheels with new stainless spokes as the originals were really pitted.
The frame/paintwork is scrappy, I’ve cleaned and polished what I can, any bare metal (there was lots!) has been treated with rust converter and a touch up with the wrong colour white. Once I’ve found something closer I may go over it again with a bit more care.
I changed the bars for some that have more of a sweep to them, still MF bars but these have the horizontal rather than vertical logo.
The rest of the parts are the best of two bikes, one with a shot frame I’ve used to donate to this one. The shifters are slightly later than the originals which I now can’t find!
Anyway, photos……
