Originally Posted by Suburban Grind

I think it was a good value, and I have equipped it with mostly NOS 7700, so the total price turned out to be somewhat more yet than your estimate.

Had a bottom bracket issue with getting the small chainring spaced properly away from the chainstay, so I brought it to my LBS... Not only did it get immediate attention, jumping in front of probably 3 days of backlog, all the mechanics stopped working and just ogled it for half an hour. They thought it must be a collector's bike that only went to shows. The bling and shine had them hypnotized, and they talked about how some of the other mechanics and salesman just wouldn't believe what came into their shop while they were away.

It was really eye-opening how attractive a 20 year old steel pro bike was to them when all their high price racy offerings were aluminum and carbon.