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@FredyCro
In other words here is my current bike kitchen project. The ultimate goal is to tour on this bike around Toscany, since I am near here. Since I was given this bike by nice people at Ciclofficina AmpioRaggio I fixed the BB (this included the almost impossible search for a BSA cup in Italian bike kitchen), changed the brakes and a laid back cockpit for this (old steel swept back bars crudely bent to a bullhorn and wrapped with a cut up inverted inner tube), changed the 6-speed casette to a 7-speed MTB one, changed the rear derauiller, mounted a friction shifter and centered the chainring. Thinking of changing the crankset for a MTB one and grinding of the granny ring, this way I could use the middle ring as a back up plan (I don't really need it in town for commuting).
Future plans include nicer tires (something wider, because commuting through cobbles in the old town of Bologna is a nightmare even with this 35c tires), tape over the current cut up tire (bars are skinny), mounting the guards properly, building a rack for the front which will take my Dakine backpack and figuring out how to mount a tent and a sleeping bag on the back. I plan to return the bike to the bike kitchen before leaving, so untill now I spent 6 Euro on the correct size seatpost, 5 Euro for a WD40 Spray and 1 Euro on a set of Chinese allen keys.