Quote Originally Posted by oxysback View Post
Thanks for your words of wisdom, Deb. Dh is going to replace the cables and housing and I'll be picking up brake pads (and tires and tubes and whatever else jumps off the shelf at me ) tonight at the LBS. I'll also make an appointment to leave it for repacking all the grease items.
I'm just marveling at the pristine condition of that bike. It's like it was in a time capsule for 30 years with lots of silica gel packets. Those are the kind of bikes I sold and worked on in a bike shop in 1973-74. By rights that bike should have rusty steel rims and spokes that don't turn and stuck cotter pins. But just looking at it, I'm imagining that everything works as smoothly as the day it left the shop. Be sure you put some oil on the derailleurs, shifters, brake caliper pivot bolts. For the front derailleur, shift it to the large chainring and put a couple drops of oil on the shaft the cage is attached to. I can tell you how to adjust that front derailleur if it's not obvious - it only has one stop screw, and it will probably need an adjustment after the bottom bracket is repacked.