I had shelved this bike for some time. I found the handling to be ponderous, I found myself with a Raleigh Professional and a modern BMC and the headset came loose. Then I moved and it sat disassembled with no space to reassemble it. I finally dusted it off and put it back on the road today.







The steering is a bit slower than the other bikes I ride but reinstalling the headset did quite a bit to improve the handling. Other than tightening up the derailleur cables when it goes back on the stand the bike performed really nicely on my 28.8km jaunt at a brisk for me 28.6kmh average with some climbing. I can see how this was used as a do all club bike. I also saw people admiring the bike which was nice.

One annoying thing is that the shifting between my second smallest cog and smallest cog has a very narrow happy area with just one ratchet click throwing it into either cog above or below.

I may try some nicer tires one day.