Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
I wouldn't change anything until you have a 50 to 100 miles on it, I mean unless something is broken. Nice find.
That top mount shifter can be problematic when trying to upgrade to a more modern indexing system
The bike that I have actually doesn't have top mount shifters like Cycle Tourist has. They're mounted on either side of the downtube. I have a 1992 (I think) Specialized Allez Comp I got from a thrift store that I suspect originally had similar downtube shifters, but it seems like the previous owner converted it to STI shifters and put in a pair of RSXs to replace the 105 downtube shifters. I'm not the best at explaining things and I'll post some pics soon. Hopefully the ones I have at the moment suffice as I'm not home until a week from now.