'80s vintage touring bike, what shifters?
Back in the early '80s, I contemplated going into frame building as a profession. Probably would have been happier if I did, although there have been some tough times since then in the custom steel frame business.
Anyway, in about 1981 or so I built myself a straight-up touring bike, mostly for marketing purposes. Now that I look at it, I was obviously nuts. It has a triple crank, but it has a campy record rear derailleur. It also has campy downtube shifters. It feels kinda strange worrying about the vintage purity of this bike, but it doesn't quite seem right to go full modern either.
I don't know why I didn't put Suntour Barcons on there, that's what I put on my tandem, and I'm pretty sure all the touring riders I knew back then would have chosen those. I'm probably going to try to track down a Suntour rear derailleur too. I'll try to post pictures, don't know when I'll be able to do that though.
Any comments?