Originally Posted by silversmith
Sounds like you could have a decent bike (albeit aheavy) for a commuter. I'd get the bottom bracket, headset and hubs repacked. The mystery oil helps, but can't completely rejuvenate the old grease in these parts. When I've taken old bikes apart I often find that the grease has dried to the consistency of beeswax or worse.
I'm getting around to it. The hubs are full of fresh grease, but not the bottom bracket yet...
Originally Posted by silversmith
If you are feeling up to a little wrenching you might want to swap the components (except for the crank & BB) onto that Le Tour frame. You'll shave ten pounds on the weight.
That's the plan! Well, maybe some better components, but the Le Tour shall live again! The original plan was to use the Varsity as a completely undesirable form of reliable transportation; immune to theft. Yesterday, I chased off the THIRD tweaker in two weeks who was standing around trying to figure out what to do about the krypto chain. I tell you, there is absolutely nothing in the world a tweaker will not steal, and therefore, why in Hades am I pedalling around this juggernaut?