Raleigh Hybrid kinda bike.

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This project in the result of a bike swap. Person or persons unknown did horrible blue spraybomb on it!
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Mfg in 1987 in Taiwan, it is either a '87 or '88 Raleigh City Sport Skyline. "Urban Access" was what Raleigh considered it at the time.
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Did initial cleaning with oven cleaner.
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After some effort the crappy remaining plastic pedal came off and I replaced with nice used alloy pedals.
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Seat post is stuck (too high for me!) still working on that.
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Rear derailleur is froze swapped Shimano SIS from Huffy used girls donor bike.
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Part of the deal is stem, bars and grips did not go with the swap so substituting my own scrounged parts, Got cool MTB bars at a swap - label from seller says "2001 MOSH bars" gonna give 'em a try...
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Aluminum seat post would not move, so I cut it off.
Want seat set back a little anyway, so I cut a old crank in half in bearing area and welded a short section of handlebar over the crank to get the right dia for the seat clamp.
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Remaining seat post was hollow with about 1/2" hole thru it so I drilled it out to 3/4".
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Looks good and lowered seat at least 3" and set it back a couple too.:)
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