More on the “De-Re-Purposed Bike Project”

If you have been following lately you will have seen a POST about returning my “RePurposed Bike” to it’s original form and condition.  This has been a fun project, but it’s time to move on.  The is post, and a couple that will follow, will document and detail the process.  Let’s get to it.

Here it is without the bags…

And now without fenders and rack…

The next phase will be to pull the wheels off.

PIX

While the wheels are off, the project tires will be removed.  Then the wheels will get the “full service treatment.  The hubs will be overhauled, wheels trued, and everything cleaned.  service and clean them.  After that the original rubber comes out of storage and goes back on.  Then the wheels will be set aside and we’ll turn attention to the frame.

If you look closely, you will see that the rear derailler is not the original SRAM unit.  That was replaced with a Shimano Deore eight speed.  This was done because I wanted to go with “drop bars.”  The “drops” would not accept the original shifters, and I had a pair of eight speed compatible bar-end types in a parts bin.

Some of you may be wondering about the brake levers on the road-bars.  I did keep the original linear pull brakes, and then upgraded them to a smoother, more high-end set.  This necessitated using a set of levers that are compatible with the linear pull brakes.  Both Origin8 and Cane Creek make “Drop Vee” levers with the requisite and appropriate pull ratio.

I mention the above because it illustrates something.  A bicycle is a system.  It’s very difficult to change one thing, without that change having implications that ripple through the whole system.

I’ll wrap this project up and show the process in future posts.