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Old 09-15-23 | 06:49 AM
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From: Greenwood SC USA

Bikes: 2002 Mercian Vincitore, 1982 Mercian Colorado, 1976 Puch Royal X, 1973 Raleigh Competition, 1971 Gitane Tour de France and others

Sugino VP cranks with a 110 bcd on the above bike, I think. And maybe one or two tubes plain-gauge chromoly. Looks like clamp-band shifters, so one could ditch the turkey levers and stem shifters and put a set of old SunTour Power Ratchet dt shifters, a set of fenders and a light and have a great commuter/lockup bike that would run for decades with basic maintenance.

A couple of weeks ago I sold a comparable 1986 Univega Arrowpace that looked much rattier than this one to a gentleman in town. I had serviced all the bearings and trued up the wheels and replaced the tires with good used ones. He was happy to get it - he rode up to meet me at the town square on a big box BSO and rode off doing the ghost-bike thing, clearly appreciating the better quality of the basic Univega over the double-boinger Magna or whatever that vile thing was.
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