Very informative semi-zombie thread.


Looking through, I see that I never visited this thread. So here's my one-year-only '79 UO9 Super Sport, lugged Carbolight 103-framed Pug.


Found in rough shape at Salvation Army for I think $20 about 8-9 years ago, the paint was still very good but the bike needed extensive cleaning and refurbishment. I changed out the steel-rim wheelset, upgraded the post and saddle, and tuned up the drivetrain with good Japanese chain and freewheel.


As other have mentioned, these bikes have a very comfortable, relaxing geometry, combining a steeper seat tube (supportive of more-spirited pedaling) with a slacker head tube, suggestive of the tri/multisport approach and just all-around good in my book.
This geometry is quite the opposite of the long-running previous Cadre Allege UO-series bikes that ended just one year earlier, which had very long chainstays, slack seat tube angle and steeper headube angle!
I had a '78 UO9 as well, the very last of the "Aztec"-lugged models, and have put many miles on both. Surprisingly, they are both good, but this '79 SS feels lighter and much snappier in terms of perceived rigidity when riding off of the saddle, so it's much more like a modern bike for sure.
So the brief use of the Super Sport moniker was an announcement that things had really changed with the UO-series bikes!