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Merry Christmas!
I ran a tap through the bottom bracket shells to clear the threads of loads of grime. Made fitting the cartridge BBs to the old frame much, much easier. The headset was already fitted to the frame but has a bit of play and feels a bit gritty - planning to strip this down and re-fit it.
I got hold of some of the velo orange leather bar tape and did some boxing day sewing with a few beers. That's the rear bars done. Came out pretty good!
I've stripped down the headset that came on the frame and have done a bit of research and found this catalogue: http://postimg.org/image/2revl5yw4/
It looks like the top is a Stronglight V4 and the bottom a Stronglight P3. The seller seems to have just dipped into his parts box to find a headset prior to selling the frame. The V4 has a reputation for being robust and the P3 is pretty standard - Does anyone have any thoughts on mixing and matching headsets?
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