They ride nice. Perhaps you got lucky and got an Italy bike, as I don't believe the Mexico ones had any Italy parts on them (even bars). The aero tubing is sexy (although self-claimed hi-ten). The Triathlons from the 1987 sales flier seems to state the only model with aero tubing was the Tri. Does yours have aero-tubing or no? I read somewhere a while back that the first two numbers after the letters in the SN are the year of the bike, by the way.