>>1924144>it's a collection of the lowest quality of everything from 50 years ago.It's certainly a bike boom shitter. Awful welded gaspipe frame, one piece crank, rusted steel rims.
But not without redeeming features.
Those suntour stem shifters are actually rather nice kit. If the bike was being scrapped they would have good usefulness and I would take them and use them. The centerpull brakes are also interesting/useful, albeit, not practical on a shitter and require care in setup and an esoteric brake pad situation to work well.
>>1924134He's right that it's an old piece of shit
>so pretty good quality by modern standards is what you're sayingno actually. This is shit by 1970s standards AND bikes got significantly better in the 80s-90s. If you want to be a snob about retro quality those are the decades you should cleave to.
It's kinda charming though? If you like how it rides then you could completely overhaul it, or just service the bits you want. It also depends on if your riding suits a cruiser. That bike will never preform well with hills or rides of distance but might be fun for short/flat stuff.
Usually I would decide to keep a shitter like that based on if the tires have cracking sidewalls or not, and if so, do i have cheap or on hand replacements. Basically is it worth the price of new tires.
The modification i usually do to drop bar shitters is convert to a flat bar and canti brake levers, and add a basket. Drop bars do not really suit a cruiser.
>The cables are very stiffwell duh you need to recable
>The right brake is seizedwith old brakes you want to completely dissasemble them, clean everything, and lightly grease all the mating/pivoting parts and threads. Do them one at a time unless you're familiar or have a lightning memory.
