My mate Matt got sick of me moaning about the crappiness of aluminium for bicycle frames after my old Trek bike frame cracked last year. so he gave me his old steel framed Nishiki. I stripped it down and suffered various frustrations trying to make random components fit. I bought a nice Pake crankset which pretty well clammed up my wallet. So the rest of the bike was put together with junk. I painted it with some old red waterbased acrylic. I'm amazed it has not all peeled off yet.

UPDATE: I changed the drops for moustache handlebars for some stylish slow-bike action.

Yesterday I cycled to the foot of the ranges. I've not been for a cycle for fun for a while, it was just the thing to sooth the soul.