Well….got two rides in on the black bike this morning and it is working okay….the front shifter needs some adjustment but overall…it’s rideable and it looks like I’ll be using it for at least the next month when the parts for the grey bike get here…after sitting for three years, the front forks are froze up and that makes for a little bit of a harsh ride but I’m hoping that they will free up after I ride it a while…I do like the new gearing and I added almost 5 mph to my top speed cruise with the new crankset and it has also spread the use across more rear sprockets instead of just 7 and 8 with the other set… I’m now using 5 through 8 for the ride and it feels okay…the new rear shifter seems to be working fine but I still need to replace the cable with one that I ordered today…spent 91 bucks for all of the parts today and put it on my Capital One card so I can cover it with the cash I have in my cashback account….I did forget to buy the brake pads but I really don’t need them….the brakes are getting better with use on the black bike so I can live with it…I may move the front pads to the rear since they have much more bite than the back…so, with the new rear tire I put on the black bike today, I have a hundred bucks into the restoration, but with the cost of these bikes up to over 500 bucks, to get a usable one for a hundred seems like a good deal…and I should be able to use it for years without any more work…I will probably go back to the grey bike after I get the parts and fix it since those front forks still work fine and that makes for an easier ride on this old body….I do feel good I was able to do the work to fix the black one…and in a month, the grey one will be fixed, too….