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I would take it apart, clean and re-grease everything, soak the chain in vinegar to get rid of the rust, then oil it, put it all back together and leave it alone.

FYI - bleach will eat your pedals, soak them in peroxide on a sunny day or just leave them as they are.

If you'd rather have a showroom nice bike, I'd bet some member on here would trade with you a bike either in serious need of a refinish or one that's already been done. It's only original finish once.

Last edited by Jon1971 (2013-01-28 8:11am)

If you want to build it as a carpet queen, restore it. If you're interested in riding it, just clean it as good as possible and go from there. OR sell this one and buy one someone has already redone. These are a dime a dozen really.

Leave it be just clean it up

If your keeping it - then decide what suits you best

If you plan to sell it - then leave it up to the next guy, that way there's no arguement as to its true structural condition ------ buying an already redone frameset involves allot of trust - I usually wouldn't chance my money on it, even if the person is a know player in the hobby (hell I trust them the least)

Keep it OG

I would leave it if planning to ride the hell out of it

You are not alone.  Same bike same condition.









This bike has tons of scratches and everything's broken.  I am going to give it a nice clean up and then toss on a bunch of random parts i already own like the photo above.  And i am going to love it and it cost me just about nothing.  I promise you that after a clean up that area by the rear brake will be a perfect 10 white.

A good clean up can happen in a day or a weekend and cost you nothing.
A good resto is like 1/2 a year process.  LOL And will cost you lots more.

Good luck.

Haro-83 wrote:

Those are dime a dozen so I would not waste my time restore them I would do is clean it up and ride hell out of it till it break

I agree 100%,buts its ur bike though. Do wat u want and most importantly is have fun with ur decision

Bling! Bling! wrote:

mtbwrxwagon wrote:

These are a dime a dozen really.

Ouch!!!

I would take it apart, get some rubbing compound and an orbital buffer. Go over the paint and decals a few times  and buff it out, see what shape they come out. I have brought back to life paint in worse shape with some Turtle wax fine rubbing compound. If it looks good enough for you...

+1 on both counts. If you put some time and elbow grease into it you will be proud to say its original. Trust me. Look at some of the POS'S that I picked up and restored. I have way more pride in these than any other carpet queen. Clean it first. Then make that decision. Dime a dozen or not......it's still a cool bike!

Someone mentioned a Hutch Windstyler, I ended up restoring this one, bunch of money and time, all said and done when I went to ride it my heals would hit the freestyle extensions off the rear triangle, so as a rider it became useless.
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Someone mentioned a Hutch Windstyler, I ended up restoring this one, bunch of money and time, all said and done when I went to ride it my heals would hit the freestyle extensions off the rear triangle, so as a rider it became useless.
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Yep the WindStyler was me, I confirmed a trade deal since then and its mine soon! Is yours a first year ('85)? I guess they moved the rear standers back a bit after that problem came up. I dont have very big feet anyway so it shouldnt be an issue. Yours looks greats after the resto!

Clean it up and amaze yourself but also get some tires. Battle scars should ride with pride.
...and a couple?'s......tough to tell in pick but are those redline rear standers? if so you could get a RL for em or sell em and get some GT standers-
...and secondly, is that an 88 stem or did those come on 87's as well?