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I’ve got the drive side bottom bracket out. I don’t have a pin spanner on hand for the non drive side. Yet. I intended on replacing the caged bearing set. But it appears there is a pressed in cup. No tooling on hand for that. Not even sure what it would take. I’m coming up dry for internet...

I took the freewheel off and cleaned it up. But only oiled it. The pawls have a wonderful clickity-clickity sound when spun. I lubed the rear hub. I didn’t like the looks of the cups. But reassembled anyway. It took me a bit to find a sweet spot that I liked when “adjusting” the cup tension. I...

I think it would look great either way. But there is enough black that it won’t look out of place in my opinion.

What? You call that done? It’s lumpy and crooked. Come on! Let’s go play fetch!

Yes the bars came with the bike. And yes measuring CTC at the ends I got about 16.125”. That would be 40cm. It says 420 on the bar end. I take it that should be 420mm?

And yes I did....

Ooops! Reread serial number information. 62512890211 6= drop out spacing of 126mm 25= frame size in inches 1289= built December 1989 0211= the frame built that month So it’s a 1990 ST400

I thought touring frames were designated in inches. I came across a 1989 ST400 that the SN is in cm. The 89 catalog specification is in inches. Was there a change? If so what year?

Shelf life expired ;). I should’ve taken close up pics of the QR skewer. It looked too pitted and rusty to reuse. The through shaft still had great cad plating. So the hubs were lubed often enough early in the bike’s life. It shined up nicely with blue scotch brite and mineral spirits. Not...

A bit more work accomplished on BL2

You’re not crazy. They don’t make Super V’s anymore. I look forward to seeing the restore!

I have it in my saved searches on ebay. Hopefully one pops up...someday.

That would be a great look for the bike. But I'm happy with it for now. Thanks!

Yes. It was $52.52 shipped.

Lacquer thinner was ok.

Maybe.....

yes. And I bet the T2000 is heavier. So it would be even more.

New bearings and grease. Brake caliper cleaned up nicely.

I’m into tearing down the complete Black Lightning now, so hereto forward I shall refer to it as BL2. It didn’t look like the headset had been serviced in quite some time. Cups look fine. So do the bearings. But I bought a box of ten retainer sets so I’ll install new ones.

Zero bidders. Shipping is a killer...