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Yeah, seems like good stuff for the price you paid! But you won't know until you've torn it to bits and inspected things obviously. New cables and outers, new ball bearings and grease all around and a damn good clean should do wonders. Check chain stretch, cassette and chainrings look fine. Planning to use it for touring or commuting?
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Apologies for the mod who had to clean up my post -- only dawned on me that the photos are pretty high res.
Yeah I'm hoping that it's just loose cones rather than wrecked bearings -- I've heard anecdotal reports that parallax hubs' cones came a bit overtightened from the factory and end up wearing out if they aren't adjusted. I'll see what I think when I've got my tools (just dropped it off at my girlfriend's -- 3 miles is further than it sounds when you're on a bike that plainly isn't set up for you, with no saddle!)
I hope to use it for a bit of touring this summer but I think I'll probably use it for commuting as well -- the comfy tyre setup is more suited to the 'roads' of North Tyneside than my current bike -- this one had nice gel pads under the dilapidated bar tape which I'll hopefully try to use as well.
I'm considering switching to V brakes as I've got a spare pair of V-brake drop bar levers. We'll see.
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Excellent. It's probably going to be usurped anyway, in favour of a shorter stem. I've got a few SR 70mm stems which will do the job. Still have to figure out whether it's a 26mm or 25.4 though. Have been considering posting a wanted ad on here as I'm in need of a 26mm stem for some Nitto Moustache bars I picked up on eBay. This would be a good bike to use them on, as I'm not sold on using them with brifters.
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Well, this is as far as I've gotten --
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8713278/bike/IMAG0039.jpg
It seems all the derailleurs in my immediate vicinity are kaput. The Deore XT piece that was on the bike suffered a failure of the little adjustment bolt, and rather than try it without I decided to take it apart and try to substitute the piece from an Altus C10. Didn't work, and not any parts from another 90's Deore mech. Basically I'm going to have to replace it. Other than that, I've not really had any other issues. I've ended up using a 26.2mm seatpost with a shim, which brings it up to the theoretical 27.2mm that the tube should be. I tried a 27mm seatpost which was much too loose when the bolt was tightened.
Replaced the cables, cleaned everything, replaced the stem and bars (the bars must've taken a bash at some point so they weren't quite right -- pity), replaced the brake pads and brake levers. I used the quite dilapidated bar tape that was on there recently, until the new stuff arrives.
Almost...
russmeyer
D_Mars
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Revell Romany Touring Frame
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Just picked this up on Gumtree for the reasonable sum of £80.
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Specs (that I remember offhand) are as follows:
Initial observations of condition are as follows:
Other than that it seems like an alright find. Anyone agree? Going to strip it completely, replace some parts and clean it up before it can be ready for the summer!
Haven't got my calipers here, but when I've got them I really need to figure out what size of seatpost I'll need. The guy I bought it from had major trouble removing the last one -- it got seized in the frame and he needed a vice to remove it.
We'll see how it goes.