Originally Posted by thumpism

Okay, back to business. I dropped the Nishiki and robbed the nice Pro Compe 5-speed freewheel from it and sent it back up into the rafters, then got busy on the Jeunet. Something just was not right about the rear triangle and it took some serious scoping. I determined that the rear wheel was tipped to the right a little bit and that the triangle was also out to the right just a bit, both needing correction if I want this to be right.

Brought out the trusty 2x4 to do a little cold setting, about 5mm to the left. Mixtes seem to be a little more resistant to bending than a typical frame. Since the foil stickers are in decent shape I didn't want to scuff them up so rigged a cushioned wrap for the seat tube to protect this one.


To correct the tilt of the rear wheel I needed to effectively shorten the right seatstay by a bit, and this shows how much I took off the top of the right dropout to do that.


While I was surgeryizing, I thought I'd clean up the seat cluster clamp a bit where it was pinched too tight.


Also went ahead and stripped every piece from the frame and gave it a good scrub to make it as presentable as possible. While it was drying I played with some parts and discovered that my barcons wont fit into the upright handlebar so it looks like it's gonna be thumbies for the proposed setup. I have stem shifters on it now but that could change.


More tomorrow.