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Well it certainly has taken me a while to get started, most of the parts were bought last spring/summer but I have had a lot of other stuff going on including sorting out a couple of ladies 3-speed bikes for my daughter and step daughter, who are both at uni and asked me to do this for them.
One was a 1980s Raleigh bought for £8 which needed a fair bit of work including replacing the steel rims with alloy, the other one was a tidy 1990s Dawes bought for £85 that had alloy rims already- ironically the Raleigh cost more in total by the end than the Dawes, which is the better bike anyway.
However with those done I started this project on the Bank Holiday last Tuesday so progress not too slow once I actually started.
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If you're anything like me, the bike will take about 6 months to "build" (translation: be rideable) and another 18 months to "finish" (translation: dick about with).