Well, a bit ago, I posted that I had bought a Fuji Palisade. Looking at brochures online, it looks like it's somewhere around 1989-1991, being that those were the only years that Olympic Red was a color choice, but I can't seem to narrow it down much more than that. Anyway, I threw on a new wheelset and freewheel (Shimano 28X14 six speed), put on a B17, and my new Minnehaha saddlebag (which I'm still in love with), and wrapped the bars with royal blue cloth tape and amber shellac. Unfortunately, it looks like I shellacked a bit too fast with one of the coats, because it went from a nice deep blue to chocolate...Maybe I'll get some alcohol and see if I can't wipe it down to get the blue back, but I"m kinda liking it at this point.

Anyway, here are the before pics:





After:






I went with a Campy Record front caliper to allow clearance for the fender, added 32c 27" tires instead of the original 28c (mainly because it was what I had), a Shimano Altus triple (28X38X48) with 175mm cranks, and Suntour XCM front derailer. It also got a Shimano UN72 sealed bb, which was a bear to get in the stupid thing. First one was too short, the next was too long, and finally I think I found one. I did notice though that those stupid biopace cranksets have almost no offset - the back of the crank is near flush with the little ring. The thing had a 110mm bb with it, and when I went with a 110, it wouldn't fit anything else.

I went with something other than the biopace (even though it felt really nice), because the non-drive side crank arm was cracking from the spindle hole out, and I can't stand having non-matching crank arms. Besides, the triple will give me a bit more help, even though I can't remember the last time I used a little ring on a triple.