Scruffy R400

My local bike shop was having a clear out of their "out the back junk" so I took a look and couldn't let this rather neglected Cannondale R400 go to waste.
It was set up as TT bike with reversed Profile seatpost and matching base bars.
It has some aluminium corrosion as most neglected aluminium bikes do, so I'll have to take it back to bare metal .
It was fitted with 6500 crankset, callipers and mechs, all really scruffy.
Luckily the bb threads were good and the octalink BB came out although it was pretty stiff in there.
The headset races were pretty tight in the headtube and took a bit to tap out.
So, it's out with the wet and dry and some arduous evenings prepping it for paint.
I'm not certain which way I'm going to go with the build once painted. Maybe a period groupo or something 11 speed.
Also I'm tempted with a flat bar build as I have a few TT bikes and drop bar stuff already.

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Leave as is, wide bars, magic gear, pub bike early 2010s eat your heart out. It’s great

Please don’t repaint it, the scruffy paint job just sells it.

Damn it! I knew folks would say that, and I did think about maybe just rubbing down the corrosion and clear coating. Too late now, the top tube is down to metal.

Then just do a really shot job of painting it a random accent color(neon?) and leave the rest.

9 speed cassette rescued from another "scrap" bike. It was a huge lump of crud.

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The scruffy 6500 parts that came on it all work. They're far from tidy but they're cost me nothing.
Just need some downtube shifters and brake levers.

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bump!

Why have you just “bumped” 2 project threads?

Because they hope to prompt the OP into an update

^this