and lets not forget, the nuovo stradas of the era were built in italy-not japan or china or ?- they were also quite expensive for their time. i have a late 80s bicycling mag. and the mail order price of a nuovo strada with chorus was almost 2000.00. compare that with the prices of fujis or top of the line japan bikes-quite a difference. im not saying they were better im just saying the the nuovo stadas werent junk like some people have implied in the past