My 13 year old daughter finally outgrew her 19" '73 Triumph Sports and was enthusiastic about trying on a C&V road bike. Be still my heart!

I'd picked up a cheap 52 cm Gardin frame from my LBS and was gifted a nice white Tange Centurion fork from lister Roger M. The bike has all the parts from a late 80's Schwinn Circuit...Suntour Sprint Accushift group, Diacompe Aero GC's, and really nice Rigida rims. I swapped out the Sprint crank for a 50/40 Aerox double to give her a lower range to go with the 13/24 cluster. The Nitto bar-stem combo sports some NOS Accushift bar cons while an NOS B15 sits on an SR Royale seat post. The fork has been left long because I wasn't sure about it. It feels twitchy to me but I'm too big for it. We'll see about that.




We spent a half hour practicing the art of clipping in and out of SPDs and talking about group riding. Adelaide had taken a mountain bike course last summer and was completely at ease with sitting in, hand gestures, communication etc. And off we went. We did our first 20 km loop through the rural back roads around Canning NS and it was great. She toppled over once, still clipped in but that's gonna happen. She likes the fit, the saddle, even the look!