If I had to guess I'd say these wheels had never been cleaned before... Sadly the tyres were pretty much bald, and the inners already patched multiple times, so I accepted they'd probably all need replacing.....
Nice shiny clean wheels! I also made an effort to de-sticker the frame as much as possible and cleaned a bunch of muck off that too.
While I was at it I thought I may as well try and get the bottom bracket in to the frame. This came out of my road bike a while back, and as I could remember shredding the splines on the cup a bit while taking it out, I was a little concerned at my ability to get it back into the new bike, but....
Ta da!
Without cranks or forks I was a bit stuck at this point, so I thought I'd take a quick win and stick the seatpost and saddle in. It also provides another handle to hold the frame by I spose.
Tune in next week for the next exciting episode of "building a bike through the power of ebay".
