In the last note  I said that I’d fitted a set of tyres onto the wheels.

Well I’ve now gone a stage further and have fitted those wheels back into the frame.

Starting to look right

Needless to say it was not as straight-forward as that since I had to sort out the spacers to get the wheels where they should be in the frame.

Then I had the back wheel in and tightened up when I realised that the brake anchor arm was not on its peg, comment of “Oh Dear!”, remove the wheel again and refit it.

Then the sprocket bolts were fouling then frame. (The sprocket has been re-toothed by turning off the old teeth and bolting on a new set of teeth).

So it’s out with the wheel again, remove the sprocket and refit the wheel once more.

This time the wheel would spin ok but there’s something just catching inside the brake assembly as when you spin the wheel you get a “tick – tick – tick” as it turns but I’ll leave that for now.

With the frame up on its wheels now the feeling is that the back of the job has been broken and I’m now on the downhill run to completion.