Mercian Olympic 1982

Had one of those days of bike building on Saturday

• Original seat pin broke on installation
  
• Stem clamp size did not match bar diameter (rookie error)
  
• Nuts for brake installation too wide for mountings in frame (do not want to drill)
  
• Rails on intended saddle too wide for seat post
  
• Somehow wound up with too left-hand limiters in the period correct set of downtube shifters that I bought
  
  

Very frustrating.

Some of these issues resolved with 1) a bit of judicious filing and a non period-correct seatpin 2) a bodge on the shifters 3) a trip to Hilly Ben for an alternative stem and 4) bringing an old saddle out of retirement.

Still very much slower progress than I'd hoped for though. Hoping to locate a few extra bits today.