It appears to be touring bike week here in the River City. Here's a little beauty, a Shogun 600 dedicated tourer, look to have barely been ridden. Even has the braze ons on the front fork for front pannier racks. Superb overall shape, Shimano mechs (unmarked as to model except for "z401" on shifters), Sakae triple cranks 52/42/32, lugged and butted tange 900 frameset, Suzue sealed hubs. Alas, the size is not the uber-desirable 62cm, the ne plus ultra of bike sizes, but a midget like 48cm (anything under 60cm is tiny, darnit, why can't folks have longer legs). So it's trade bait or CL or ebay fare, not sure which. Aside from a pair of Treks I found a while back (720 and 620) the best tourer I've found, and certainly in remarkable shape. Think I'll keep the bag, it goes with panniers one of my legion of ex-gfs dropped of earlier in the year. Rusty chain really the only problem with this one.

On another tack, it seems like most of the bikes I find are either ridden hard and put away wet, or nearly unridden, with the edge in numbers to the latter. Makes me wonder what minty stuff is hidden in garages across the metro area... prolly not higher end, but nice mid-range bikes like this one.