Originally Posted by
juls
... I've had this Trek a year now (never did find the shimano band) and it just wasn't getting ridden. Found an old raleigh on cl and decided to scavage some parts ...
Why not simply go with SunTour bar cons? They'd be correct for this type of bike, or you could buy bar end pods and mount the existing indexed downtube shift levers on them? That would've been a standard solution for a 420/520/620/720 any way, right?