Originally Posted by Lenton58

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:
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