Yes its an awesome bike actually, I just wish it was my size. I had to seriously 'downgrade' however. Use to have an alloy crank but the spindle was stripped on the drive side so I had to put a steel cottered crank on cause I had no cotterless spindles. The Mafac alloy racer brakes were seized and shot so they were replaced with no name steel ones. After the alloy front rim got smashed theres a steel one on there now, it used to be light now its heavy!