Positron - yeah, I'd like to get some more of the lights. What I did was order a few different ones for Chris K at Velo Orange, he was interested, but other than the samples nothing ever came of it. It was a pretty big hassle, we had to have my wife's mother in Japan order them, and then have them shipped here, all the retailers said that they were only allowed to sell these to customers w/in Japan. Some sort of licensing thing, I guess.

IIRC, they were about 3200 yen, which these days is getting close to 40 dollars. Personally, I'd like to figure out a way to get a hundred or so wholesale and just sell them here, I know they would sell. The trick is getting my wife to play ball, since I can't speak Japanese well enough to negotiate a deal and even if I could, a lot of the distributors in Japan don't want to bother w/dealing w/foreigners for small beer orders. To that end, my wife is similarly inclined, unfortunately.

As for the 620, I love the trim, unfortunately, it wasn't in very good shape to begin with and 9 years of daily rider duty has taken a further toll, although it looks ok from a distance. I recall that you recognized that there was something odd about it right away w/out any prompting. I was thinking, boy, this guy really knows his bikes.