Finally overhauled the eternal favorite

This old Raleigh Super Course Mark II frame came to me in 2021 and has lived a few lives in the time since then. I just recently grabbed an 8-speed e-bike cassette and an old wide-range derailleur so I can get close to a 1:1 climbing gear for the mountains around here and finally–for the first time since I've owned it–put a rear brake on. Slightly mulleted tires: 40 in front, 35 in back. I bet I can squish a 38 in the back, but it'd be very close.

Also, just so that someone's written it out somewhere: these old-school clamp-on derailleur hangers actually do not need the clamp to function. I couldn't fit a cassette in this frame because the inner nut of the clamp would rub on the lockring, but there are two small pegs on the inside face of the hanger that'll sort of align the hanger in the dropout. It's very finicky and obnoxious to install the wheel like this, but if you need to slam the wheel really far back to fit a wider tire, you can remove the hanger clamp entirely and rely on the pegs to keep the derailleur from spinning free.

I sussed this out from this Radavist article and a little testing. I'm sure there's a better way, but this is enough for me for now.

Now to fix the cargo situation… I sense a frame bag in my future.