First,
noglider is right about my misspelling of
Gitane. Sometimes I smoked Gitanes in my student days — back in the Cretacious.
Thanks for the careful replies. I'm learning a lot here.
I've got so much to do here, including a build for my son. So now I am dithering because I am taking the sobering advice that I approach this as a separate build as opposed to swapping and mixing stuff from the Trek 560. But the frame is really tempting.
One question: do the Italian threads and dimensions cross over at any point? I must have known this and forgotten.
And
CV asks:
Not to change the subject, but how are you doing?
Thanks very much for asking. I've updated our situation here, and I have included some news about Northern Japan on a thread started by
Bianchigirll. My own thread was on a general discussion forum. It seems to have vanished?! I originally updated on a general thread cuz I thought it was off topic. But virtually all my friends in BF are on CV. And so, I have just chosen to tag my latest message to Bianchigirll's thread. Thanks Bianchigirll! You can read here:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...er-from-SENDAI