Caught up with my old principal (two previous to retirement...he drove 2.5 hours each way to spend 1 hour at my retirement soirée), and of course asked if he needed a bicycle (since I still have tooooo mannnnyyyy from the Great CoVid Student Bike Giveaway). He said yeah for he and his wife but that his back could probably use a more upright position.

Enter the SuperSport. $50 or so later, I pitched the idea. He loved it.

It was mostly smooth though spacers for the 7 speed conversion were a pain, for some reason. Chain line is meh but good for his purposes.

Was able to squeeze 28 (29) mm tyres in there, found a Sora derailleur and used the existing RX100. Alex rims are light and smooth (see click OCD thread). Right shifters index decently well (I will never use these again for the record), brakes are cheaply superb and the house brand tyres from Chain Reaction cycles are nice and grippy. Should do road well, and light gravel okay. A Lemond saddle with a prostate friendly cut out was in order.

So after asking advice on the shifters for the Super Sport, I figured out that the left shifters just plain STB. I figured out a work around. Not sure what it was but it worked.



Crappy. Do Not Buy...

I like the minimalist red in spots honestly. Usually I would go garish with the red cables, saddle, grips.

RSX brakes shined up. They are great stoppers. Tires are Chain Reaction house brand “Road Essentials” and have extra rubber for flat prevention in the center.

Left shifter good. Right shifter baaaa-d