Originally Posted by
noglider
I like the Sports very much, too. It's well made and well understood. It can be a pain if it has been badly abused or neglected, but so can any bike.
I've had some pleasure refurbishing some 1980's Japanese bikes such as Fuji and Univega. Stuff on those bikes "just works."
+1. The frame is the foundation, the rest is the the details. Just about any Japanese-built frame from the mid-70s to mid 80s would be tough to beat. Fuji, Miyata, Univega, 'Schwinn-
approved', among others. The high point of Japanese frames, as far as I'm concerned.