Interesting idea for a thread. I'll post this one first. scouring CL one day I found this over in in....OH Yardley I think about 30 or so min north of Philly. I got the frame/fork, HS,BB and the Deore LS brakes.



For those of you who have not seen it a zillion times on here is a Bianchi Boarala Cross bike from about '90/91 with a Columbus MAX OR tubeset. I couldn't decide if I wanted to make a 'cross out of it or more a touring/randonneurer bike. Then an idea struck..... I always wanted a 5+ IGH bike. I got a nice set of Salsa Delgado rims with shimano Alfine "Redstripe" {Yeah BEER!** rear hub and dynamo in the front. then simply because I had it I added a CampI triple crank.




Because of the vertical dropouts I needed a chain tensioner but an old Duara Ace RD took care of that. Because of the 'high wire' cable routing and the big oval tubes running the FD and rear cable tricky, since I couldn't just ignore the brazeons and use clamps. It is not pretty in places but the shifting is smooth. OH a cheap old stem adaptor and stem hold the bars and CampI levers pull the Deore cantis pretty well. A JTEK barcon shifter controlls the gears but get confusing because it operates backwards from a normal barcon.