Starting to take shape, spent a bit of time this weekend cleaning, polishing, spraying, greasing and building and have got to this stage.
Ordered the Jagwire silver cables for it, need to get some end plugs for the bars and I'm waiting for the Deore pedals to come from Germany. Might have it done before I go off on holiday.
More work completed has seen the MT-60 pedals arrive and stripped and a coat of primer and black enamel, polish of the inners and some fresh grease on the bearing which were mint.
Jagwire silver cable set arrived and fitted, but the realisation that the freehub body was dead (no grease in it with a horrible grinding noise and the main wheel race was shot), fortunately I had a replacement and fresh cones on another spare wheel so that has cannibalised and fitted and the rear wheel is not ready to go.
Still waiting on the stem, but hopefully tomorrow I will have that.
Big dilemma is the decal colour, I think all white, but Gil thinks white and silver. Any ideas anyone?
Holiday is going to interrupt the build now so it won't be done till I get back I think.
Haven't updated this in quite a while, but it's been pretty much done for a while now.
I rebuilt the rear hub with a spare freehub body and new bearings and it's nice a smooth now, cleaned up an rebuilt the front hub with new bearings and refurbed a set of Deore MT60 pedals added a set of silver Jagwire cables and some new Shimano brake blocks.
All that's left now are the decals. Gil have drawn the Saracen ones and I just need him to draw the repro 1987 531AT one for the tubes before I order them up. So wish him a speedy recovery from his accident.
As I was moving the garage around tonight to accommodate the Raleigh Team I snapped a quick pic of this with the phone camera.
Not sure what I'm going to do with it when finished as it's a bit big for me and the Raleigh will be much lighter and better fitted to me so I might sell it on, but I'm not sure as it was my dads for 20 years and it has a bit of sentiment attached to it.
I does look like it will be a nice Sunday afternoon lazy ride though.
Really must get around to this, the purchase and build of the Raleigh Team got in he way of the finish of this and it looks like my impending house move will also. It still hangs unridden in the Garage, might ride it down to my boys football game today.
Took it out for a ride today, just a short one to the local park and back to watch my eldest play football. It's odd riding Biopace again after all these years and it's a bit too big for me (I lowered the seat from the photos by a couple of inches to ride it) but it's nice and relaxed with a take on holiday and pootle to the local shops sort of feel about it. Still need to speak to Gil about the decals, but I took some better pictures with the DSLR.
^ Carl met a chap at my local corner shop the other day with one - prob '87 from his memory in goldish-gunmetal. One owner and in very unabused condition.
hopefully he'll find this and post us a picture
And (the guy prattling on about his MFox and Orange)
Carl not sure if this is sold or not so you might not be able to help me. But can you tell me a few things about this please, trying to update the wiki on saracen:
