Nostalgia is a beautiful thing.
Of course they handled like a dream and could be ridden no-handed right out of the box.
If memory serves me correct, my old Serotta was vertically compliant and literally laterally stiff and I could ride ten mile wheelies uphill right out of the box.
It’s all true and if you don’t believe me you can ask Heather Locklear because she was my gf at the time and rode with me every day.