mands bike for a frweeend

mands, sound like you need a band-on cable guide.

Two solution;

Find old band-on downtube shifter mount, and put an STI cable stop on it.

Another solution is this;

latter is likely to be cheaper.

red cable outer for 2 bob

no, no red ones.

Thanks anyways. I'll battle through. :)

Excellent suggestions all.

That latter, been searching for it, but didn't know what it was called. Thanks!

Bought a couple of those clamp on cable stops. Works a treat. Thanks!
Bought a hacksaw and got the boyf to saw down the steerer.
Tweaking of the gears and we have a finished bike.

So I took it out last night to the shops for a gentle roll. It's fast and smooth!
So this morning I decided to take it out for a proper London Traffic trial. Bike stands up well, but chain slips under load.
Must check out the cassette, it's an old wheel which I am not sure where I got it from.
Finally the brake lever angles need to be refined but that's an easy one!

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Chain slip? is the rear a freewheel or a cassette?

yeah chainslip...um yes, actually I think it's a freewheel screw-on.

Oh that's fine, sound like the freewheel wasn't tightened properly to begun with.

Put a bit of weight on the pedals while the bike is stationary and give it a bit of push (with brake engaged, hate to state the obvious but witnessed a customer did just that and propelled into a parked van).

Looks good!
watch out also for the chain jumping off the front ring if you go over a bump/ hole since there's front mech =)

if the chainset is a singlespeed one, there's a lots less risk of the chain jumping due to the lack of ram/pin on the chainring.

looks great - good job