Rough old beast that has no chance of fitting me. But the 3 pulley ARX RD caught my eye along with the Symmetric shifters, From appearances I was expecting both the seatpost and stem to be stuck. Lot's of light surface rust on the chrome fork and plenty of rusty paint chips in the very faded paint job. Faded decal says Nishiki and the headbadge is similar. Pretty sure I read these were Kawamura built though. TIres dry-rotted but holding air. So with all these negative I snatched it up anyway for the RD.. Thinking about putting it on the Team USA "gravel" bike to let me run an even larger cogged rear cassette.

Got it home and yeah, seatpost and stem stuck. Stem was freed with one blow from a rubber mallet. Seatpost is soaking. If I can get the seatpost free without too much effort I may just steal the RD then sort this out and give it to the bike collective. If the seatpost is stuck permanent I'll probably tear it down for the parts and scrap the frame. Hate to do that though with something like this that has "aero shaped" tubes. Oh, and hitting the fork with a quick bit of chrome polish showed that the surface rust will easily be cleared up.


61 cm by 58.5 CTC with a quick measure.

I want this RD

Sugino made? Guessing....

First set of these. Wonder if they really auto trim the FD

Dia Compe brakes

Dia Compe brakes

Wonder if I have hoods for these

Ovalized down tube