So I jumped onto the road racing bike hype and managed to pick up an old french road bike for £50 off of ebay <--- highly recommend!
It was originally blue and needed revamping so first thing I did was sand it down and give it a new coat of racing green paint with plenty of lacquer. I bought a new freewheel rear 7 speed cassette and used a new SRAM mountain bike derailer, this bike isnt for race used just to get about on.
Plus its had a new chain.
What do you think?
Next I plan to remount the front brake and bars, the bar mount will be polished along with the cranks and front gear cover.
I will be running this bike with just a front brake.
This is the bike ready for its test run, on its first trip we found one of the front brake pads was sticking and the bearings in the left pedal were shot and felt loose.
Parts that we need to buy will be brown leather seat and brown handle bar grips, new pedals maybe cranks and new brake pads.
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