Originally Posted by The Golden Boy

It is heavy and built like a tank.

I really do find these bikes (the 86-88 High Sierra and Cimarron) fascinating. For all intensive porpoises they're touring bikes- where the tourers of the day were designed to be around 26 pounds, I think these were 29-30 lbs- triple butted tubing, and classy. It's interesting that the expedition touring bikes of now are more like these bikes than they are of the Trek 720/Miyata 1000.

BTW- to correct the rear brake thing- I think you'd just need to increase the tension on the arm that's farther away from the rim- the Suntour/Dia Compe system makes it pretty easy- grab the outside nut with a 13mm wrench with one hand, and loosen the Allen screw with the other hand, tighten the wrench a touch so the arms even out, then tighten the Allen screw to lock it down. The Dia Compe 986/987, Suntour XC Pro and Ritchey cantilevers used the same system. For as cool as the roller cams look- I'd rather have cantilevers.