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Old 01-23-17, 09:09 AM
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exmechanic89
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Bikes: '00 Koga Miyata Full Pro Oval Road bike.

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My recently built 2000 Koga Miyata Full Pro Oval race bike. I built it from a bare frame a generous fellow rider on CL in Seattle practically gave me ($5). It's not finished yet as I'm still searching out some parts, but is currently running 90's era 105 components with 7 speed DT shifters set to friction with a 9 speed SRAM cassette. Ti saddle with DT Swiss Ti skewers on Mavic CXP wheels.

I love the way this bike rides, the frame is a combo of eras - uses Miyata's very light FM1 oval steel tubing, along with lugs, a threaded stem and aluminum fork. The bike is very quick, I climb a lot of steep hills in my rides and it's a pleasure to ride. It's also very solid on fast descents, no squirrely-ness at all. I'm a chicken sh*t on descents so that's a really nice feature.

It's getting a change to dark blue bar tape today. And have you noticed? Apparently Red Bull stole the bike's colors for it's cans, lol.

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