Looks like quite a nice bike. Looks like a lugged steel frame - it'll probably last forever.
The seat angle makes me think of a little village in S E Asia that you may experience if you spend too much time in the saddle - Numh Coc. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Christian > Sent: 13 August 2007 18:43 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: OT - a little late on the bicycle thing... > > I decided to do more road biking rather than mountain biking and was > looking for a "new" bike. Then I had the big DUH! moment > when I saw the > old Takara Deluxe Touring 12 speed hanging in my parents' > garage. They > gave it to me on my 16th birthday in 1984. New tires (the > old ones were > 23 years old and dry rotted), tubes, bar wraps, clip-on pedals, a few > adjustments and it is mostly road-worthy. > > I'll probably tear down the bottom bracket and clean it up a > bit more. > The shifting is pretty smooth but the brakes are crap and need some > adjustments. I've done some decent (for me) distance with > it, on nice, > smooth, flat Delaware roads. > > http://tinyurl.com/yqgu3q > Pentax Optio S > > -- > > Christian > http://photography.skofteland.net > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
