Recent content by retroroadlover24

Managed to get round to stripping everything off and tackling some of the rust. It goes deeper than any rust I have seen on projects before. In the picture attached there are dark areas (slightly pitted also?) where although the rust has gone it is not a shiny steel. Do I still need to remove...

Hmm will have a closer look at the forks tomorrow, wheel came out fine so hopefully just the angle of the picture Gonna take everything off the frame and have a closer look at the rust after some scrubbing and take it from there. Hopefully everything turns out nice and easy Thanks for the...

Hello this is my first post on retro bike so do bare with if I seem a bit foreign! I acquired a 1981 Dawes Galaxy bike (see attached photos) last week and have found a decent amount of rust especially around the BB shell area. The previous owner had it resprayed 10 years ago and I am fairly...