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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Back in Lincoln Sq, Chicago...🙄
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Bikes: '84 Miyata 610 91 Cannondale ST600,'83 Trek 720 84 Trek 520, 620, 91 Miyata 1000LT, '79 Trek 514, '78 Trek 706, '73 Raleigh Int. frame.
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I need to take a test ride tomorrow, but I'm pretty happy with the look.
I decided not to try to make it look like it's in worse shape, or like a lower tier bike, but just to make it forgettable. If it's in a rack your eyes just slide over it.
I think the ergo bars with old school aero brakes help a lot. The previous owner had put regular hoods over the aero levers, and it's perfect! Not classic, not new, just kinda old and janky.
I'm going to pull the fluted seat post for a black anodized one next and I'm toying with replacing that long reach cyclone rear mech with an alivio I pulled off a dumpster bike. Make it look like its already had the good stuff stolen off it...