Originally Posted by
eschlwc
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the photos.
rekmeyata, great news on the weight! there's only one set of bottle bosses. the rd is suntour vx-s, and the fd is arx. i haven't checked the date of either. if you overhauled your bike already, can you tell me the bottom bracket make? mine had been relpaced with a cartridge type i might want to replace in a year or two.
-wc
Check your weight some time, I'm curious.
The photo on my monitor, which is not real good for detail, gave your derailleur a black look in the center of the rear derailleur which gave it a Cyclone look. Odd though because the rear derailleur should be ARX not VXs, VXs is from the late 70's! and it's a lower level derailleur then the ARX but probably more reliable just a tad slower shifting. If you want to keep the bike in it's original condition I would source the ARX derailleur, their not expensive around $40 to $45 for nos, if you want to upgrade it go with Cyclone those can be found to for around $75 NOS. I think the original owner probably had a problem with the ARX, which wasn't uncommon for those, and had the VXs put on.
I have not overhauled it at all, it only had 5 miles on when I got last year, I put about 100 miles on last summer just to get it fitted and to test it. The bike was so unused the derailleur wasn't even broken in, once it loosened up it started to shift pretty good, not up to the Suntour Superbe standards that I have on another bike, but not bad for friction. Right now that bike is stored, kind of keeping the miles on it low, but I do need to relube the hub bearings, the crank lube seems fine. I haven't therefore looked at the BB but it should be a Fuji cup and cone, or maybe a sealed cartridge unit, square tapered 118mm spindle BB probably made by Suntour since Fuji had a great relationship with Suntour. Mine Fuji uses the cup and cone BB your's should too.
You can tell if your BB is a cup and cone if on the none driveside of the crank it uses a lockring instead of splined interface used by cartridge bearings. The bearings in the cup and cone design are actually quite reliable and cheap to maintain, so instead of throwing out the cartridge and putting in new one you simply degrease the bearings with WD40 then regrease and reinstall. If the bearings are bad by some slim chance you can get replacement bearings just about anywhere but you may have a problem finding a replacement cartridge for that model of BB.
The frame by the way says VaLite Quad butted, was actually made by Ishwata which was one of the best tube manufactures in Japan. That particular tubeset was highly overlooked because it was stamped Fuji, had it been stamped Ishwata people would be jumping to get those.