Thanks. The Stem I have is 100mm with a quill length of 150mm. The Dynamic II is 120mm with a quill length of 65mm. That seems rather short. Maybe they count to the max line while my current one does not. At the moment, I have been looking at the Nitto Technomic, but may wait till I find a used one since I have to wait for the desired bars anyway.

Ironically, I wanted 25.4 bars as I already had a stem. However, that stem I ended up not using and purchased another. The only reason left for me to stay at 25.4 would be to easily move the bar to a 1 1/8" steerer bike in the future. I forgot about the idea of a shim to make 26 clamp bar work with 25.4 bars. That opens up more stem options.

Here's my 520 bought for $150 from a woman who said she rode it around the world. The brakes have also been swapped out for v-brakes but they seem to work just fine. If you get a line on more than one set of Deore cantis, I'd be interested in buying them so I can get the brakes back to original.

I love the bar end shifters. I almost prefer them to the STIs on my modern touring bike.

Nice looking bike. I am guessing a 92 or 93 judging by the color and lugs.

For my Deore brakes, I ended up winning a groupset that was not listed well on eBay. I used the brakes and am selling the rest separately. Make sure your levers can work with cantilever as you may have V-Brake specific levers.

Earlier in this thread someone offered their brakes which I passed on. You can try asking them, they were BR-MT62.

I figured I'd post once more to show everyone how this bike ended up.




I went with brown cause that is what I had. The saddle will change, but the current setup has been working well.