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Old 07-05-08 | 09:51 PM
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paulbonner
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From: Austin, TX

Bikes: Current: 1991 Miyata 914, 2006 Fuji Team Pro, 1988 Nishiki Intternational

Originally Posted by stronglight
Looks like a perfect commuter bike to me. A lot of "hybrid" bikes (MTB gearing with 700c wheels) have more recently evolved into what are now being called "comfort bikes" and are really inferior to these earlier and more rugged and roadworthy bikes. ...

Enjoy!
Thanks. I probably paid too much -- $150 off of Craigslist--but I've been looking for awhile and the market here in Austin has just gone nuts over the last few months. To tell you how crazy it is--I could probably flip this for $275 without doing much more than installing new brake pads -- and in fact that's what I'll probably get for the 1994 Trek 520 I picked up the same day -- but I'm hoping the Nishiki will become my primary commuter. It seems to me to be at least as road-worthy as the new $450-to-$600 "commuters" with Alivio and Acera components and wheels from who knows where, and if I end up putting a few thousand miles on it in the next year it'll end up being a great deal.
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