Old stuff worked for us back in the day, but new stuff works better. Kinda like driving a car with a manual choke, points, biased ply tires and having issues driving over a high pass cuz the jetting is off.
Now of course if you have no idea what I just wrote, there you go.
At the same time I still love and appreciate old cars, and bikes, but new stuff does work better. (Still have my dt shifter tourer though)
I don't know about that. I had a 1983 Trek 720, and the OP has a Miyata 1000. Those are two examples of legendary touring bikes and I seriously don't think there's anything built today that is better than either of those, for actual loaded touring. Maybe a Rivendell Atlantis.