I managed to get the bike rideable this afternoon. I borrowed a pair of ally wheels from my other bikes. I had fun trying to use brake cables from other bikes without much success. I didn't want to have to go into town to buy new parts. It didn't work so I went and bought a new cable and chain. I swapped the saddle for one which I had spare. The cover was coming off the one fitted. I had fitted a pair of drops bars the previous night. Trying to find a pair which would fit and not jam was difficult so I settled for a thinner pair and made a shim out of 1 mm ally sheet. By the time I had built the bike up the sun was starting to go down so I fitted lights and set off for a test ride. It was very short! The bars rotated and the saddle was too high. I had only gone 100 yards so I went back and adjusted things. By now it was starting to get dark . Lights on and off I went along the cycle path . The chain started to jump! I dropped down a couple of gears which seemed a bit better. The previous owner must have been pretty fit as the rear sprockets are larger than the originals and the chainring looks like a 52 tooth. I carried on with the occasional chain jump. I'll take a closer look tomorrow. I don't think the chain jumped on my other bike. It might be the derailleur. I continued down the lane in lower gears , the bike seemed to be going well. After a mile I turned round and came back, I managed to climb the flyover without any problems and it went down the hill on the other side pretty fast. I was surprised when I got back to find that I was in first gear. The previous owner had strong legs.
I will check things out tomorrow and perhaps have another test ride.
