Originally Posted by
abshipp
I have a 76 as well, but in the better color
I kid, of course. My thoughts exactly on how smooth this bike rides.
It's been built a couple of different ways, with drops as well as porteur bars. The top tube is fairly long for me so I like this bike more with the porteurs, the reach with drops is a bit much.
This frameset is currently hanging in my bedroom because I swapped all the parts over to the 77 Super Le Tour. This bike is the opposite of the Motobecane, short top tube means drops are super comfortable but I feel cramped with the porteurs. Plus I like the bag on the front, and the porteur bars make that pretty much impossible to install with any kind of elegance.
Very nice! I am thinking about possibly moving the Nitto Moustache bars from my geared Carlton Criterium over to the Jubile' and your photo helps me to visualize what it might look like. I also love the chrome Schwinn. I've only had one fully chromed bike and it was a Bianchi track bike. Sadly it was too tall for me. Normally I don't care about standover, but being a fixed gear it does matter a bit more. At least to me it does. It was measured by Bianchi as 59cm but rode much more like a 61cm to me. Nice bike otherwise.