1989 Orange Clockwork

[CTK]

Picked this up today. I have a potential donor bike but not sure which way to go. I want a bike to do a little bit of touring in the summer.

 

[pwebb]

watching this one - a blank canvas is always a great place to start from and Orange framesets with canti stops are infinitely adaptable and always work out really nicely whatever direction the interpretation takes you

 

[CTK]

Paint is not great but I'm keeping it! Lots of black rust marks like this

 

[brocklanders023]

Ace project! 89 Clockwork's like M550 LX and DX IMO.

 

[CTK]

Ace project! 89 Clockwork's like M550 LX and DX IMO.

I have most of an LX groupset (need some chainrings) but considering doing something different - maybe drop bars.

Anyone had any luck matching the orange paint on these? I definitely want to keep the original decals etc but might have a go at touching up some of the rusty patches.

Frame doesnt look pretty but it actually isn't that bad. No chainsuck, no rust worms, no gouges or dents and the BB area looks clean- just loads of weird rust scrapes/spots!

 

[brocklanders023]

Problem is there's 3 or 4 different orange's from that era so it's hard to match. 89's quite neon, 91 flatter, 92 carrot. Maybe best getting some tester pots from eBay?

 

[CTK]

OK I've made a bit of progress- most of it in my head. I'm having another go at the paint on the frame- forks are acceptable. The paint on the frame has faded in various places and the faded places are harder to match. Pretty sure its going to look ok when I finish though.

Decided on flat bars and will be using a mix of polished alloy and gloss black bits.

 

[CTK]

The plan is to use thumbies on friction shift and have a 2x9 set up using 9 cogs from a 10 speed cassete and new SGX chainrings (50,34) We'll see how it goes.

I have XT M730 cranks and thumbies.

A nice Sachs front mech

I cant decide on a rear derailleur

& also cant decide between M550 and M650 cantis.