Thread: MTB commuters with drop bars- post your setup
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Old 07-21-11 | 07:49 AM
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Bikes: 1966 Raleigh DL-1 Tourist, 1973 Schwinn Varsity, 1983 Raleigh Marathon, 1994 Nishiki Sport XRS

1994 Nishiki Sport XRS. A hybrid, not a MTB, but the process was pretty much the same as what you're looking to do. I used a quill stem adapter to adapt to a stem that would take a larger diameter handlebars (that I happened to have lying around). For shifting I went with an old pair of Suntour barcons I picked up at a swap meet. They are racheting friction shifters. The bike came with twist grip indexed shifters. Even without indexed shifters, the bike shifts very smoothly and reliably.

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