Originally Posted by rumrunn6

Bought some old bikes (Schwinn Continental & Varsity) & tires; tubes; cables; housings; dug up some old drop bars; built a nice new red commuter. A bit of a dinosaur, but practically bulletproof. Oh, also cleaned & lubed the bearings front & rear.
Black makes a good trim color for red if anyone's wondering about red frames.
My first bike with Armadillos. Yikes they were expensive & they seem a little irregular or maybe that's the way I mounted them. Fortunate they had them in 27 x 1 1/4. I would have settled for $12. gumwalls. It's got a rear rack (silver) & I added 2 silver bottle cages. Black cages would look better but the silver ones kinda go with the rack.
It's got a saddle from a Trek 520 road bike, but I would swap in my new road saddle for any length of time.
It's got hockey tape for now & the bars I removed had nice old-time brake levers, (now stowed for a rainy day). They look like the new "safety" levers on cross bikes. (but aren't)
Kids softball & baseball tomorrow but maybe I can sneak a test ride in.