Thursday, June 25, 2009

Drop bars

The latest incarnation -- yet again -- of my ancient Miyata Triplecross hybrid. A new Tange Passage headset allowed me to move the brake cable hanger and use a nitto road stem, which allowed me to run the drop bars.

Handling is typical of a touring bike. Not particularly exciting, but manageable.

posted by juarezj at 7:07 AM

4 Comments:

Blogger Andrew said...

I am building up a bike with a Miyata Triplecross frame that looks just like your bike. How did you attach the downtube-mounted shift levers?

10:35 AM  
Blogger Andrew said...

I am building up a bike with a Miyata Triplecross frame that looks just like your bike. How did you attach the downtube-mounted shift levers?

10:36 AM  
Blogger juarezj said...

I bought some vintage Suntour clamp-on downtube shifters. They clear the downtube braze-ons just fine.

10:57 AM  
Blogger juarezj said...

Here's a closeup of the shifter:

http://imgur.com/39e1Scn

11:04 AM  

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