Originally Posted by
milky
Beautiful bike, what size/width are the tyres? And also how does the arabesque rear derailleur cope with the 6speed?
27 x 1 1/4 tires. The 600 RD did take a bit of tinkering to get set up nicely, but it works. It does ride pretty close to the 28 though.
Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
The Arabesque is a pretty little derailleur and once set up they work rather nicely but the Suntour derailleurs of this period were so much better... would always take a Mk1 Cyclone to almost any friction derailleur ever made.
Point taken. I'm a stickler for keeping groups together (I have the same parts on my Lotus) but I do have a good pile of various Suntour stuff waiting for future projects, including the Cyclone you mentioned.