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Old 06-05-06 | 07:07 PM
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Bikes: The keepers: 1969 Magneet Sprint, 1971 Gitane Tour de France, 1973 Raleigh Twenty, 3 - 1986 Rossins.

Go with the Voyageur. I've always felt that, for the money, the Schwinn/World Voyageur was probably the best frame ever made if you're talking long haul with 2-5 bags hanging off it. Back in the day (he sez, leaning heavily on his cane, the rhumitiz acting up again) I rode a number of more expensive bikes than the Voyageur I built up, and found them all to be a waste of money in comparison.

By the way, you're forgetting one item: Blumel Popular mudguards. It's a personal quirk, probably from having been caught way too many times in summer storms coming off Lake Erie, but I absolutely cannot take seriously any touring bike without mudguards. Screaming downpour in my face and on my back I can take. Wet crap coming from off the pavement, however, is another matter.

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