My son lives in Tooting and needs something to lock outside to a lamp-post (for his Tooting-Clapham commute).
Therefore nice shiny bikes are out.
I got this rust-bucket off Ebay locally for £7
Rear mech is gone and wheels are shot but I can transplant any parts from my son's old Halfords MTB (he's had it since he was 13 so it's too small but parts are all OK).
Suggestions? Single speed? (use old mech as a tensioner). It's a pan-flat area he lives in so MTB gearing is redundant.
Frame is Reynolds K2 (fairly basic stuff I think but it's pretty light). I'm thinking it would be extremely light if I stripped it back to a Single-speed and gave it a coat of Hammerite. Shame it's got vertical dropouts.
It has Deore thumb-shifters which seem really nice