I finished truing the rear wheel on the Poo Brown Bike. It seems to be the original (matches the spec in the 1982 catalogue) although the rim wasn't very worn at all. The wheelbuilder didn't put the valve stem between parallel spokes
It needed one new nipple and now it's
almost dishless - in fact, the dish is reversed from what it was, with the non-drive side spokes shorter, because I had to push the fixed sprocket out to a sensible chainline. The wheelbuilder also used spokes that were a little too long, so I'll have to file the ends on the LH side - these aren't box section rims so the rim tape will sit right on the nipples. Interestingly, the spokes on the RH side (which was the "short" side) had been slightly filed. Bodgers, eh?
It still trued up fairly easily considering it's 27 years old.
Also took the frameset off to be powdercoated. Spacebadger had one done there years ago and it looked OK. £50 including a top coat of baked-on lacquer to make it shiny. Won't have any decals except the correct 531 seat tube decal and a repro brass head badge, which PlanetX are now knocking out for £8. The powdercoaters can't apply decals anyway because of the baked lacquer, which would melt them.