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The old Ultegra cassette cleaned up nice too
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I stripped and serviced the freehub. It's not perfect but better than it was. Seemingly hundreds of tiny ball bearings in there. It's an odd freehub. DA I believe. Two pawls.
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Sorry peeps.
This was the last photo I took in the autumn whilst messing about with an old Corima I'd picked up. There's almost no paint left on it now. I'll get photos when it warms up a bit.Still undecided with paint colour, if at all.
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Me and the Mrs took a lovely 5 day tour in Normandy last Sept. The weather didn't play ball but we had a real giggle.
Despite its size, we had no issues with the loaded Orbit on the ferry to Cherbourg and back. Highly recommended trip, plenty of history and quiet roads/cycle routes. -
The scruffy 6500 parts that came on it all work. They're far from tidy but they're cost me nothing.
Just need some downtube shifters and brake levers. -
9 speed cassette rescued from another "scrap" bike. It was a huge lump of crud.
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Damn it! I knew folks would say that, and I did think about maybe just rubbing down the corrosion and clear coating. Too late now, the top tube is down to metal.
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My local bike shop was having a clear out of their "out the back junk" so I took a look and couldn't let this rather neglected Cannondale R400 go to waste.
It was set up as TT bike with reversed Profile seatpost and matching base bars.
It has some aluminium corrosion as most neglected aluminium bikes do, so I'll have to take it back to bare metal .
It was fitted with 6500 crankset, callipers and mechs, all really scruffy.
Luckily the bb threads were good and the octalink BB came out although it was pretty stiff in there.
The headset races were pretty tight in the headtube and took a bit to tap out.
So, it's out with the wet and dry and some arduous evenings prepping it for paint.
I'm not certain which way I'm going to go with the build once painted. Maybe a period groupo or something 11 speed.
Also I'm tempted with a flat bar build as I have a few TT bikes and drop bar stuff already.
Dm'd