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Just finished doing up this bike, I spotted it on my usual early Sunday morning ride at a garage sale. So pulled over and said I'll be back with the car.
I thought for £10 it was worth a punt, and it looked like it had either 700 or 27x1 1/4 wheels. Imagine my surprise when loading it into the car that they were 26x1 1/4 wheels, DOH! I was hoping to use some old 700 or 27" tyres I had, to replace the perished ones, but had to splash out the wallet busting sum of £16 for two 26" tyres.
It looked like it hadn't been used much, and was then stored in a shed for years. The chrome had surface rust which polished up lovely with a brass wire wheel in a drill, the frame had no rust, just a couple of scratches/scrapes.
The bar tape was replaced with Bike Ribbon from CRC, £4 and was a brilliant sort of retro shiny mock leather and looks really good.
Brake calipers and levers were some I had already renovated off another bike, likewise the rear mech.
SR Sakae 'bars and ITM stem polished up nice too.
Date stamps on some components were 1983/1984, but can anyone actually remember them, Halfords seem to have been selling Olympics for quite a few years in different guises.
I thought for £10 it was worth a punt, and it looked like it had either 700 or 27x1 1/4 wheels. Imagine my surprise when loading it into the car that they were 26x1 1/4 wheels, DOH! I was hoping to use some old 700 or 27" tyres I had, to replace the perished ones, but had to splash out the wallet busting sum of £16 for two 26" tyres.
It looked like it hadn't been used much, and was then stored in a shed for years. The chrome had surface rust which polished up lovely with a brass wire wheel in a drill, the frame had no rust, just a couple of scratches/scrapes.
The bar tape was replaced with Bike Ribbon from CRC, £4 and was a brilliant sort of retro shiny mock leather and looks really good.
Brake calipers and levers were some I had already renovated off another bike, likewise the rear mech.
SR Sakae 'bars and ITM stem polished up nice too.
Date stamps on some components were 1983/1984, but can anyone actually remember them, Halfords seem to have been selling Olympics for quite a few years in different guises.
