Originally Posted by
Tulok
Cool bike!
Step 1: you’ll have to at least disassemble the wheel hubs and headset, clean thoroughly and regrease them before you ride. Better safe than sorry! The B.B. is a good idea too.
Step 2: simple green, WD40 or other solvent, micro fibers and a toothbrush and maybe a short bristled paint brush to clean it all. If you rinse off the whole bike with water, remove the bolts from the bottle cages, etc and put WD40 into the holes around the whole frame and try to coat it internally with oil to prevent rust.
Step 3: if you keep the same shifters abs brakes, get new pads and high quality cables like dura-ace or jag-wire for best results!
Great advice thank you! For shifters I had the first series of 600 brifters on. I forget what year they were but i was working for a shop at the time and it was definitely first gen 600. Seems though that something must have happened over the years because it has one original and the rear shifting is now a Claris 8spd. Definitely drivetrain will be swapped out as I find parts but I’m thinking I’d keeping the race face cranks, don’t see too many of those.
im hoping to start disassembly and clean up this weekend. Thoughts on cleaning the chrome?