Since about three weeks now I tried to pick up this frame. Today I finally made the two hours roundtrip on bike to get it home...
I went there with to spare wheels...
When I came back home, it was dark already...
It's a nice Motobecane mixte frame, that's in need of some love (and grease). As there is a pretty close deadline (30th of September), I hope to get this one done quick. The bones seem to be good (ok the BB needs serious attention, as it barely moves). So I mostly need to clean it up, get some spare parts over from the campground stash, like handlebar, break levers, chainguard, but that's about all this bike probably needs. But the pick up at the campground might be the biggest problem, as the car is beyond repair, so I have to do everything by bike for the next few weeks. We will see...
Good thing is, that last week I scored a nice donor bike. The frame is heavy as heck, so it most probably will get tossed, but the wheelset and maybe some other parts will move over to the Motobecane frame.
I went there with to spare wheels...
When I came back home, it was dark already...
It's a nice Motobecane mixte frame, that's in need of some love (and grease). As there is a pretty close deadline (30th of September), I hope to get this one done quick. The bones seem to be good (ok the BB needs serious attention, as it barely moves). So I mostly need to clean it up, get some spare parts over from the campground stash, like handlebar, break levers, chainguard, but that's about all this bike probably needs. But the pick up at the campground might be the biggest problem, as the car is beyond repair, so I have to do everything by bike for the next few weeks. We will see...
Good thing is, that last week I scored a nice donor bike. The frame is heavy as heck, so it most probably will get tossed, but the wheelset and maybe some other parts will move over to the Motobecane frame.
