And in with the... well, older.

Sold the carbon bike. I honestly didn't plan to buy another bike, but this one caught my attention on CL and turned out to be too tempting to resist.

Here is the very much before picture, straight out of the car and onto the wall:



It's a circa ~1990 frameset which, I guess was an SLX/SPX frameset. Anyhow, they guy originally built it up when he worked in a bike shop. It was originally built with the Campy friction stuff, but at some point, he stared updating for whatever reason. But that works out for me because I wanted a nice steel frame to build up with modern brifters.

The only real setup issue (aside from the ridiculous stem adapter) is that it currently has a 7 speed freewheel on a 9-speed Ultegra brifter. It actually works pretty decent and after a quick tune-up, I found it to be pretty liveable. But the wheels are built on Phil Wood hubs, so I plan on getting the necessary end cap or whatever I need to extend the drive side 4mm and source an 8-speed freewheel, because as I understand it, the 8 speed spacing was identical to the 9 speed. The frame is already 130mm spacing, but the hub is actually 126.

Other than that, I just gave it a good cleaning and flipped the stem, and adjusted the bars. I'll order a new cable set (in celeste green, of course) and rewrap the bars, but for now, I think I'm toast. I'll probably reposition the brifters (they stick up too much after repositioning the bars) and give it a quick rewrap with the newish tape that was on it and give it a spin tomorrow.