It used to be her brother's bicycle - I guess early to mid 1990s with Biopace type chainrings, thumb shifters and splatter paint. It is in pretty good condition too for its age - the paint is very good. It just needs some care now - new cables plus adjustments to the gears, brakes and bearings. And fit some easier tyres as it is mostly used on the road now.
And the finished article. I've left the cables until later as a barrel adjuster is missing from one of the thumb shifters and I'll need to source a replacement. Until then only six of the seven sprockets work. I'd forgotten how fiddly cantilever brake adjustment can be, and noisy too without any toeing of the pads! Fixed now, just a bike fit to do.
Well, went for a ride to try out my 'new' bike earlier (the lovely one in the picture above) and it was running a whole lot more smoothly than it used to before...and it's never looked so clean either!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the work you did on it Andrew.
Martha