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I've heard of Argos, they seem great but are pricey/have quite long lead times.

I'm not unapposed to drilling a hole to reduce stress concentrations, every other bike I've owned has been built that way. I'll see what I think after getting a quote from Argos.

Cheers for the advice!

Step 1. Seat tube crack

At some point in the distant past, some muppet has put an undersized seatpost in, tightened the hell out of the clamp to get it to hold, and made a lovely little crack in the seat tube. I'm half tempted to try and weld it up myself but I feel like that might end in disaster. Equally I don't want to just leave it as-is because I don't want it to get worse. Anyone know of any reputable frame builders/repairers in the Bath/Bristol area who would tackle this?

So as long as I've been alive my dad's had this gorgeous old Sun that's been slowly rusting in the shed, and after slapping on a crappy wheelset and using it as a single speed beater last summer I've really taken to the thing. However, it's in fairly poor shape and I've decided to restore it to some level. At the very least I want to make it a roadworthy rat/pub bike, but ideally I'd return it to its former glory with a full re-spray, and the campy groupset that it allegedly had from new.

I have a Palomar that I absolutely adore. It's a bit crap, weighs a ton, has horrific components on it, but it's mine :) nice to see someone else building one up.

Regarding the brake setup I'd either keep it rim brake, or strip it and get a disc mount brazed on the back. The problem with rim brakes is that you're limited to fairly crappy 2nd hand wheels unless you want to build your own, but equally going the disk route is a lot of faff.

Can't resist, dibs on the wheels then 😛

Dibs on the groupset and the pro bars pls

Are the wheels still available?

This still available?

I'll take em

tempted to go for it, but the spoke spacing looks scary.. ridden them much?

Ride slow, die whenever