Originally Posted by
CliffordK
Gearing can be changed, of course, but you're right, perhaps not worth it for a chunk of nostalgia.
Buying birth year bike and modifying it seems sorta cross-purposelessness and against the grain of having it in the first place. The effort of getting it close to original would be a much larger concern for me.
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