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Embarking upon my first bike restoration, I have owned and ridden bikes since early childhood, and I'm fine with basic maintenance, but this is something completely beyond my current skill set.
I bought a bike to restore, I chose it carefully for the following reasons
>It was dirt cheap, so if I fuck it up it's no problem, I expect to make mistakes and in fact want to learn as much as possible on this build >It's in reasonably good order, everything works but everything could do with attention, so there's no major technical work to be done, more like a deep service and cosmetic improvement.
>It's a bike that I instantly liked when I saw it, a bike I'd like to ride and enjoy when I'm done
This is going to be something of a hobby for me, as I already mentioned I've always had bikes and done a fairly decent job of maintaining them, but whenever anything serious went wrong I'd take them to a bike shop or mechanic to get repaired, I'd like to be able to do that stuff myself and maybe even get a past-time that kind of pays for itself, buy a bike, fix and restore it and maybe sell it for a small profit, although honestly trhat wouldn't be the motivation as much as the satisfaction of saving a lovely old bike and giving it a new lease of life.
So how best to go about learning all the skills I'll need? And what will I need to get started?
I ordered some books - ''Bike repair and maintenance for Dummies'', ''Haynes: Bike Book: Complete Bicycle Maintenance'' and ''The Bike Book'' by Fred Milson, I have a few tools but very few are bike specific, I know I need a bike repair stand and am trying to source a second hand one, what other tools should I get? And what other resources are there that I could mine for knowledge and information? I tried a few YT channels but found them to be either too modern focused, always 'fixing' brand new £3000 bikes or they are too try hard, with zoomer ADHD editing and techno music tracks.
