Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
As stock these are very different bicycles...
The UO8 is a touring / road bike and is much lighter, not quite as stiff, and has quirky French parts instead of quirky Raleigh threaded parts.
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I know all that stuff. Yet I prompted you to write all that because you write it so well. I could read your descriptions of bikes all day.
Fir, sunny in New Jersey? Are you kidding? We have a varied climate, but it's usually cold or hot or humid or raining or blowing hard or ... We really have only a few very nice days a year here.