I bought this from Le-16 a couple of weeks ago, it's worth noting that it arrived in 4 working days and was properly packed.
I started off with a good clean and inspection which showed no scratches or dents, not even chain suck result! Next job was to check the threads -- all 15 of them. One of the bottle cage threads turned easily in the frame (made clear in the sale add) and the mech hanger thread needed re tapping. I took the opportunity to remove the remaining tatty decals. Oh, being a weight weenie I had to hang the bare frame from my luggage scales, 1.8Kgs for a 17" steely seems very good to me.
I remember someone on here was going to start a serial number data base so here's mine if your reading this: M23JA0062
So, on with the polishing, using a combination of fine sanding blocks, Brillo, a dremel, wire wool and Autosol I was pleased with the results. The only problem area was around the seat clamp (see pic), this leads me to believe that the frame has had little use and may have been standing upside down in soil with no seat pin fitted.
On the subject of seat pins it takes a 26.6 mm post, a quick search on here revealed lots of un answered wanted adds for this size so ebay came to the rescue with a polished (if heavy) UNO in the correct size. The only other part needed is a matching straight UNO polished bar, currently on a slow boat from China. Most of the other parts are cleaned and ready to fit once the bars arrive, the exception being that it will have to share its wheels with my Stumpjumper M2 for the time being.
Build details later but purists should step away from the mouse now.
I started off with a good clean and inspection which showed no scratches or dents, not even chain suck result! Next job was to check the threads -- all 15 of them. One of the bottle cage threads turned easily in the frame (made clear in the sale add) and the mech hanger thread needed re tapping. I took the opportunity to remove the remaining tatty decals. Oh, being a weight weenie I had to hang the bare frame from my luggage scales, 1.8Kgs for a 17" steely seems very good to me.
I remember someone on here was going to start a serial number data base so here's mine if your reading this: M23JA0062
So, on with the polishing, using a combination of fine sanding blocks, Brillo, a dremel, wire wool and Autosol I was pleased with the results. The only problem area was around the seat clamp (see pic), this leads me to believe that the frame has had little use and may have been standing upside down in soil with no seat pin fitted.
On the subject of seat pins it takes a 26.6 mm post, a quick search on here revealed lots of un answered wanted adds for this size so ebay came to the rescue with a polished (if heavy) UNO in the correct size. The only other part needed is a matching straight UNO polished bar, currently on a slow boat from China. Most of the other parts are cleaned and ready to fit once the bars arrive, the exception being that it will have to share its wheels with my Stumpjumper M2 for the time being.
Build details later but purists should step away from the mouse now.
