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Welp , another one in my stable . A guy I know GAVE this bike to me . He hasn’t ridden it in twenty years he says . Everything works great . Shifts perfectly and the brakes are really good . I went to my local bike shop and got new grips and inner tubes for it . It’s a bit small for me but not unrideably so . I moved the saddle all the way back and set the seat post height and it’s good . Actually , being a bit small works for winter riding as I can recover in a slide very easily . I’m thinking about studded tires .

 

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Welp , another one in my stable . A guy I know GAVE this bike to me . He hasn’t ridden it in twenty years he says . Everything works great . Shifts perfectly and the brakes are really good . I went to my local bike shop and got new grips and inner tubes for it . It’s a bit small for me but not unrideably so . I moved the saddle all the way back and set the seat post height and it’s good . Actually , being a bit small works for winter riding as I can recover in a slide very easily . I’m thinking about studded tires .View attachment 388227

LOL! When I was a kid myself and a friend rode our bikes in the middle of winter. We had winter and summer tires.

I think that you will remember the REALLY heavy old Coke bottle caps. We 'studded' our winter tires with these bottle caps. We would attach the bottle caps with roofing nails for the large flat heads. I did odd jobs for a guy with a small machine shop that would take our studded tires and grind down the inner nails so they would not puncture a tube. This actually worked quite well. For a couple of kids aged at 6-7 years I think we did pretty well in being to ride our bikes pretty much year round. I mean this REALLY worked and we could even ride on ice.