All right, in Catch of the day I posted this bike I picked up for $20:


It's a Raleigh-built Triumph 3-speed. I thought I would just use it as a beater bike, or clean it up and flip it, as I ride a Raleigh Sports, but now I'm toying with the idea of updating it with newer, better components, as this gentleman did:

The spoking is 36/36, so that helps if I want to relace the hubs to new rims. Would you suggest going up to 700C, down to 650B, or stay with 650A?

At the least, I could get new brakes, rims, stem, and bars and save a bunch of weight. Any suggestion of how to update the bottom bracket? If I could find a spindle that fit the old cups that would be my choice.

What do you think?