Originally Posted by
SurferRosa
I can't ride a bike not perfectly tuned and with a gross cockpit.
It's hard enough riding a bike I didn't rebuild myself.
I feel ya. Normally/always for me it's a full teardown and renovation/restoration. In absence of that, "triage mode" is tune the brakes, tune the shifting, lube the chain, and adjust saddle position and bar/stem to get as close as possible to my normal fit, and then just ride it. But I'm putting tape or just about anything on top of those sticky hoods.