upgrading!!!

[PpPete]

it takes a lot of brute force!

Alf

No it doesn't - very easy to over-bend the frame.

 

[robsy]

thanks all for the replies, some food for thought there. Will prob keep the breaks and upgrade the wheels.
cheers

 

[swee'pea99]

One last thought - I don't know how things are in Germany in terms of ebay, or about your mechanical skills/enthusiasm, but being on a brutally tight budget, I've always done my upgrading by buying good old bikes in bad nick, preferably badly listed, then stripping off what I needed. I just got outbid on this one, eg, which I had planned to strip and use to build up an old frame I've just got fixed, taking the leftovers to the recycling.

It takes homework and patience, but you can get a lot for a little.