It took and hour or so but with a rummage through the parts bin and some borrowing from other steeds we had a workable ride, give or take some cables, grips, wheels and tyres - easily fixed.
1st up were cranks, Cro-mo 3 piece, 180mm arms so lots of leverage to heave 2 grown men around a track and a big fat Volume chainring with 44 teeth.
Pedals are Freeagent mag-alloy platforms, trusty, light and nice & grippy - I love these peds.
Rear brake - Odyssey evolver mk1. Another stroke of genius from the Odyssey peeps, (did george help design this too?). Nice, thick, machined arms and super strong springs make these things work a treat and should slow us down pretty good, even with all that weight, all I need to do is find a nice big handful of lever to go with it.
Bars n Stem. Not much to say about the bars, generic chrome BMX bars, they will do for now. The stem is a DK billet number, appropriately mid-school too.
There would be no point putting a new-school polyprop integrated seat and post on this, besides it'd just rattle around in the seat tube! No, this tank need saink comfy, step up the overbuilt (natch) padded armchair that is the Freeagent 'Jump Seat'. They dont make 'em like this anymore.
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