Found these lovely Shimano ST-M567 shifter/brake lever units at the local bike collective last week:
They were like new, and I had no real plan for them, but I figured you can never have too many shifter sets on hand. Just in case, you know.
I had intended to make this bike a V-brake, 9 speed deal and had all the parts I needed to do it, but I realized it would be easier to pull the crappy old 8 speed rapidfire shifters I had on it and replace them with these sweet LX units. This would alleviate me having to swap over the brakes as well, so I figured why not?
Additionally, I won on the evil bay an auction for a NOS version of my favorite saddle ever, a Bell Dart 500:
So for now I think this bike is done. Only thing I could see changing in the future might be to add a dynamo hub to the front wheel and a dynamo light. I really like the color and it rides really nice!
Thanks for coming along!