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1981 531db frame, 21.5"/55cm seat and top tube with original paintwork Set up for light touring with 2x7 indexed Shimano transmission. Most components original 1980s (except for wheel rims, dual pivot braking and Sora rear mech. ) 3TTT Morphe randonneur bars and stem, Turbo saddle, Suntour...

Which area in Sheffield?

Can't tell if it's a road or MTB frame. If it's the latter, you may get more interest on the MTB side of the forum

What you going to do with it all? Scrap (properly scrap)?, sell? Offer FOC to other riders? Donate to a bike charity? I'm finding myself in that quandary. I haven't got the energy to sell or karma it out on an individual basis and I hate chucking stuff away on the basis that it'll be needed...

Yep. Got 2 Spa titanium audaxes. One for winter with basic spec and a mudguarded bike for summer with a better spec

It will not be 140-150. If it is, then something has gone drastically wrong. Modern standard is 130 road, 135 mtb

What probably happened (or one idea) is the dropouts had an old width standard (120 or 126mm). When the frame builder came to repair your frame, he used a frame jig with the modern 130mm and brazed it all up as such. If this is what happened, he should have discussed it with you. Depending on...

A great machine

I usually like your posts but ..... The Would you stand up in court ..... statement. Well no. But that goes for most things with the state of today's litigation. Did you really make a considered decision when you tested your bike for 50 yards on the street while not wearing a helmet? Would you...

Try it on another bike. Daft as it sounds, the dropouts, both front and back can creak where the skewer doesn't get proper purchase on the dropout and no lube makes it creak. It's an easy fix. Just clean everything and put a very thin layer of lube on the dropout

Definitely. My everlasting pot is Duckhams

I get it, finding myself in the same predicament

Maybe needs another shim at the back. Not to distance it from the hub , but to pack it out. I assume it's a 11 speed freehub and you have a 10 speed cassette. Especially as you say there is some play. Maybe I've misunderstood, it's difficult to grasp without seeing and playing

I've tried GT85 and it's mucky. It coats the chain in a yucky brown sauce, which then goes black and seems very thin. I now use WD40. Yes WD = water displacer, not lubricant, but it seems to work ok. It's fairly clean, fairly cheap, wipes off easy at bike cleaning time, doesn't seem to have...

Looks a machine that 👍