The JYL Casa is crowded. We have living with us not one but two Young People Not Our Children. One, who we'll call "Z", is my daughter's good friend, a fifth-year architecture student, and all-around good guy. Z has a bike. Its not a fancy bike. It is an old college-beater Centurion LeMans, missing its rear wheel thanks to thieves, and fairly trashed out, but he loves his bike. So . . .

We have stripped the bike and Z is looking for a powder coater. He plans a black retroreflective scheme - stealth but safe - and might do some lug lining with a gold paint pen.

Components-wise, I'll go to the local bike co-op and find him a pair of matching wheels. I haven't checked if the bike has or will take 700C rims, hopefully either or both. We'll leave the spacing at 120 mm and keep the current drivetrain and almost everything else, because student budget. He is talking about moving the aero shifters to the stem, but I'm going to talk him into splurging on some bar-end shifters. The existing fenders are fairly icky plastic items, hopefully some nicer fenders will turn up at the co-op.

Cyclomundo has the decals in black/gold, that will look nice on the black frame CYCLOMONDO - CENTURION

The purpose of the bike will be urban runabout, student transport, with some recreational JRA.

With that background, any thoughts or suggestions?