Originally Posted by Danmozy66

I got the bike. And sorry, touché I meant to say grip shifts, not thumbies. I have some spare thumbies lying around, I’m going to see about compatibility. Still undecided on what to do for cockpit/bars type though. I now have a set of nicer 700 is the reason why, and even after cleaning out the hubs the wheels are tired and a bit wonky. And this seat post weighs a ton, and it no longer springs up and down either.

Regarding your point about the frame level for this year, the funny thing is, if you look at the catalogue for 1998 this 730 was actually the highest tier steel one (there was no 750-790). That’s why I’m curious about what (in theory) their best steel was for this year and how it stacks up against some of these other higher spec’d earlier multitrack frames. Guess they started going away from steel to focus on aluminum. Wonder if they were still putting as much consideration into the steel frames at this point