Originally Posted by SoCaled

Strange to me as well, I just posted the T500 and looked it up briefly on an old BF post that compared the T700 to the T500, saying the main differences were the T700 had mid fork mounts & slightly longer seat stays, also said both had two eyelets on the dropouts? said the T500 was more a "sport touring", looks like they both went that way.

Originally Posted by attylah

A bit of a project, but very well priced. This one is strange to me - the T-700 was a highly regarded touring bike, but this model year - despite the "Touring Series" label on the seattube - does not have canti brakes, has no mid-fork eyelets, only one eyelet on the dropouts, and has downtube shifters. In the '87 catalog, it even touts that "it's racey geometry gives it a road feel that no loaded-touring style bike can match". I guess they were morphing it into more of a sport tourer by this time.
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