Before we were married, I put Peugeot UO-18-style upright bars and wider-range gears on my old Bianchi and removed the "toe traps" (her terminology). Bicycles were our transportation during our college years, including the first three (1973-76) years of our marriage. (We were eking out a living on my graduate fellowship, part-time jobs in electronics and bicycle repair, and her substitute teacher pay.) She still likes bicycling on trails, but she has been intimidated by automobile traffic for a long time, so almost all of my riding is solo.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069