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Old 08-09-18 | 02:14 PM
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From: KFWA

Bikes: A touring bike and a hybrid

My mid 80's Raleigh Marathon. I ride this one the most. I usually use a 130mm stem but had the bars on another bike and didn't want to deal with getting more bar tape and rewrapping the bars so I just pulled bars, stem, levers, cables, and housings and moved them from the other bike to this one. The joys of quill stems.
Added downtube shifters as it was a ponderous shift of body weight just to change gears with the factory stem shifters.
Last night on my ride home the RD asploded AND I punctured and tore a sidewall, so now it has a spare Suntour Accushift RD from the parts bin and the 1 1/8" gumwalls (light, comfortable, and fast) were replaced with my spare 1 1/4" blackwalls (HEAVY). At one point I'd converted to 700c but kept blowing spokes on the rear wheel. When I get that addressed and the 700 wheels back on it'll have room for fenders and 28s, good enough for me.
The bike and I pretty much beat the crap out of one another and for whatever reason both keep coming back for more. For a long time I did not like this bike but it's growing on me, and all in all not terrible looking, has nice lines I think.
It's good for my 25ish mile RT commute through suburbs then low rolling hills over back roads (in various states of repair) in the countryside to my work in a small town.

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