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Old 10-08-21 | 06:08 AM
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jamesdak
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Originally Posted by 3alarmer
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...I know it's probably just me, but I find these "updated" classic frames, with compact cranks and superfast wheels, visually jarring.
If I had bought that, I'd have spent another 6 or 8 hundred bucks putting it back to a more original configuration, so I'm happy it isn't my size. .
Put me in the camp of "I love it"! Nothing wrong in my book with updating an old frame and that one is very well done in my book and right up my alley.

Not really any different than several of the bikes I have/had like the 80's Circuit or 90s Duell, Argal, XL Super, etc....

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