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Old 04-21-15 | 09:35 AM
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Bikes: '18 class built steel roadbike, '19 Fairlight Secan, '88 Schwinn Premis , Black Mountain Cycles Monstercross V4, '89 Novara Trionfo

From reading thru each-

- The Fuji looks great, but I have a bias for Fuji Touring since I missed on a craigslist 86 Fuji Touring Series IV.
- The Fuji is a couple pounds lighter.
- The Fuji has a more iconic RD.
- The Fuji crankset is good gearing for what you want, is an iconic touring model name, and looks decent for new cranksets.
- The Fuji wheelset has unnamed hubs.
- The Jamis has a good frame compared to Fuji- might be basically the same, but Jamis is specifically double butted.
- The Jamis wheelset is solid. Good hubs.
- The Jamis crankset is fugly. But it has a good gear range for what you want to do.
- The Jamis is heavy! Its always surprising to see how little has changed in terms of weight over the last 25+ years for touring bikes.

- I think they have the same brake levers- Tektro 340. Both have a Tektro Canti brakeset. The Fuji has better gearing if you are doing a lot of heavy hauling up hills.


Those are all pretty minor differences. Whichever fits better would probably be the one to go with since some of the geometry is different.
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