Ordering
one of these through
the local dealer has been on my mental to-do list for a while now. Reynolds 525 and chromoly fork, which is good enough for me because I'm (still) far from being a competitive cyclist and still have way too much body fat to shed to have the luxury of worrying about shaving a few grams off of the frame here and there. There's a bare frame in two color scheme, or complete options with Tiagra or 105. I'm particularly interested in the Tiagra model because I could easily convert it into a flat bar bike; I had been considering the 105 model earlier, but now that flat bar shifters apparently no longer are part of the 105-7000 range, Tiagra 4700 seems to be the next best option; the market seems to have dried up on old 5800 flat bar shifters (I searched far and wide,) and I'm not even sure if those old 5800 shifters would work with 7000 derailleurs anyhow. So here we are.