simex
01-18-06, 09:05 AM
A while back my girlfriend and I found a pair of matching roadbikes on the side of the road. which is perfect, because, while we typicaly mountain bike, we've been wanting to get into roadbikes since we just moved to a flat smooth street with a pretty generous bike lane. the bikes look to be from the early 80s, possibly late 70s. Free Spirits, heh heh, department store bikes, real crappy crimped frames but with pretty nice shimano components.
anyway... the bikes look pretty old, but barely ridden, very little rust, so we're going to tear them apart and put them back together, cleaning and lubing as we go. And we're hoping there is a concise list of all the parts we should be lubing, and whether we should use oil or grease, stuff like that. I don't want to miss something important.
Also I'm wondering if it's safe to use brakleen on bike components, i'm an auto mechanic, and from the school of "brakleen everything before you put it back together." heh heh.
anyway... the bikes look pretty old, but barely ridden, very little rust, so we're going to tear them apart and put them back together, cleaning and lubing as we go. And we're hoping there is a concise list of all the parts we should be lubing, and whether we should use oil or grease, stuff like that. I don't want to miss something important.
Also I'm wondering if it's safe to use brakleen on bike components, i'm an auto mechanic, and from the school of "brakleen everything before you put it back together." heh heh.
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