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Should I make my own thread for this bike or is that too ostentatious? Or just stop spamming this one?
Anyway, the seatpost is pretty well stuck but I will try the Coke trick with it tomorrow and see if that gets rid of it. I need to swap the cranks but that is going to be really complicated. At the moment, it has a nasty Octalink FSA crankset, which I want rid of but I don't have the right notched BB tool.
I want to put on it the Miche cranks I have on a different bike, but with a Campag Veloce BB, which again requires a different BB tool which I don't have. Definitely want to change the drivetrain soon though, I did a skid today and something moved which shouldn't move.
I did manage to get an Aldi tool kit for £19.99 today though, so I now have a Shimano BB tool, of sorts. Also fitted a brake today (boo) and spotted some potential repaired damage to the top tube (see pics).
And found another possible problem, which is that the forks' natural dropout width without a wheel in is about 110mm or more, and that doing up the track nuts on the front wheel is what brings them in. Is this a sign of damage, or could that be deliberate? Is it likely to heal itself through riding, or does it need attention?
Here's some more nice pictures anyway.
Filth:
Previous colour:
Damage?
