Originally Posted by joychri
Thanks. I tend to baby my bikes and that one even more than the others due to its sentimental value. Last year (as one of my winter projects) I stripped it down to the frame for the first time in years and cleaned, polished and touched up every each of it. Its amazing what a little soap and water can do.
Have you repacked the BB and hubs? On my bike, I'm quite sure all of these parts have never been repacked with grease, but still roll quite smoothly. I'm still tempted to see how much more nicely they might roll with some new lube, however, my "if it isn't broken, don't fix-up" sensibility makes me think twice about doing all of the work...
[it should be noted that this thing was safely stored indoors by an owner that clearly rode it little - it even had the original tires included, which I wouldn't have trusted, but held air just fine - kind of in "suspended animation"...]
On the "show-off your old Shogun" theme, here's my Shogun 500:
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