My Dawes of (im)Perfection.

I'll go get one myself and when I get back, I expect more!

Woaarrrh! An audience. I'm on it.

So... I knocked out the cups (correct word? I'm new to this despite being almost 48yrs old) with a long drift...

...and replaced the headset with a new 1" threaded head set from my LBS.

Cleaned everything up, the threaded part was undamaged thankfully.

From this...

To this...

Next up was to remove Chainset from the Girly bike and fit it onto the Dawes, its a 48T 'Silstar', the pedal crank appears integral to the chainring, only the trouser flare protector (!) ring comes off so I'm stuck with it for now. That all went smoothly, I've cleaned and polished everything and coated all bearings in fresh grease too natch. So, now we've got forks that turn without pain and a smmmoooth BB from the Girly bike which was in superb condition so I swapped that over to the Dawes too. Pedals from Girly bike were removed and fettled with new grease and given a buff. The chrome is pitted a bit but I'dlike to change these later for maybe some toe clip variants or summat. I've never ridden with toeclips before.

Next up was clean and fettle the wheels which have come from the Girly donor bike. They're German (it says) and made by Schurmann, cleaned up nice.

They're 27 x 1 1/4, I bought some tyres and new tubes. Beige sidewalls, caramac loveliness.

Next up I unseized both of the original Weinmann brand Dawes brake calipers by totally stripping them down and re-lubing them, I fitted modern brake blocks too. They look like this.
Back...

Front.

I've got another pair of brake calipers from the Girl bike that are Centre-pull design, I'm toying with giving them a try in place of the originals. They've cleaned up nice too. Jury's still out if they'd be any better, any advice greatfully accepted here BTW.

Beer break.

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