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09-01-23, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by RiddleOfSteel

Thanks!

Man, so much has happened since then. I've flirted with selling the 620 a few times, especially after picking up the '82 720 I have now, but I keep keeping it around. As it stands, it is going back to more or less its "Super 620" roots. The Chorus double crankset is tripleized, the rear cassette is 11-32, and although it's been sporting 9-speed downtube shifters, I am taking a pair of modern R3000 Sora 3x9 levers, sanding the paint off, and polishing them. It's also wearing 40mm Donnelly XPlor gravel tires with the brown side wall against TB14 rims. Rides really well, even corners well for a big tire bike. Really digging it!

I may hop back to Dura-Ace. Thinning the herd right now and parts are on a different frame (all $15 of it!).

Pre-R3000 STIs right now:

An '85 620 in my size in my neighborhood?

If I sell two bikes to buy one, that's still thinning the herd, right?

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