Originally Posted by
LesterOfPuppets
This is my favorite $300 BD bike. Of course I'm a curmudgeonly lover of steel road bikes with level top tubes and thin tubing.

Nice, I didn't see that one. Love the classic look.
Like nfmisso, I too would be upgrading the components (keeping it retro though). But that's one great starting point for a quality brand name bike on closeout.
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