1989 Koga Miyata Randonneur Extra
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04-12-24, 05:16 PM
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I really only ride this bike on tours these days, but I’ve made a few changes.
Between the scarcity of quality 9sp cassettes, and the desire for easier packing for flights, I changed it up to 10sp downtube shifters. The shift levers themselves are 8sp Dura Ace, with an indexing pod swap. An 11-34 cassette rounds it out.
The crankset is now a narrower Q-factor Ritchey 110/74, still a triple though.
I also swapped the tail light to a, sadly no-longer-available, VeloLumino fender light.
Racks come and go, the Nitto M-18 I’d been using as a rear rack now lives on another bike.
Between the scarcity of quality 9sp cassettes, and the desire for easier packing for flights, I changed it up to 10sp downtube shifters. The shift levers themselves are 8sp Dura Ace, with an indexing pod swap. An 11-34 cassette rounds it out.
The crankset is now a narrower Q-factor Ritchey 110/74, still a triple though.
I also swapped the tail light to a, sadly no-longer-available, VeloLumino fender light.
Racks come and go, the Nitto M-18 I’d been using as a rear rack now lives on another bike.
04-13-24, 03:21 PM
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I really only ride this bike on tours these days, but I’ve made a few changes.
Between the scarcity of quality 9sp cassettes, and the desire for easier packing for flights, I changed it up to 10sp downtube shifters. The shift levers themselves are 8sp Dura Ace, with an indexing pod swap. An 11-34 cassette rounds it out.
The crankset is now a narrower Q-factor Ritchey 110/74, still a triple though.
I also swapped the tail light to a, sadly no-longer-available, VeloLumino fender light.
Racks come and go, the Nitto M-18 I’d been using as a rear rack now lives on another bike.
Between the scarcity of quality 9sp cassettes, and the desire for easier packing for flights, I changed it up to 10sp downtube shifters. The shift levers themselves are 8sp Dura Ace, with an indexing pod swap. An 11-34 cassette rounds it out.
The crankset is now a narrower Q-factor Ritchey 110/74, still a triple though.
I also swapped the tail light to a, sadly no-longer-available, VeloLumino fender light.
Racks come and go, the Nitto M-18 I’d been using as a rear rack now lives on another bike.
Any idea why they stopped making the VeloLumino? Is it because the innards from the Busch & Müller Seculite Plus they used is no longer being produced?
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