I rode my first SR series on a '80s racing bike. There was nothing wrong with it, but the rust started to bother me. I do like to run fenders, there was no way to put full fenders on that thing. Also, modern brakes would have saved me on one snowy descent.
You can ride a century on just about anything. One 200k on Halloween, one rider showed up wearing a dress and riding his wife's 3 speed commuter. Pretty sure he finished before I did. The one problem I had with my racing bike was that after a couple hundred miles the dt shifters were just way too much work. It's bad enough to be sore and have saddle problems, but then to have sore fingers from shifting is a bit too much. I saw a guy on PBP with an old PX10. He was dropping out with about 100k left. Couldn't imagine doing that, but I always wondered if the bike had something to do with it.
Last edited by unterhausen; 03-17-13 at 11:42 AM.