$80? Wow. That is a nice looking bicycle. Congratulations on your purchase. Is the frame Reynolds steel?
Ian A Kitimat BC On Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 7:43:12 PM UTC-7 velomann wrote: > Pardon the click bait - I actually went to buy a bike for $80, with the > faint notion from what little internet info I was able to find, that it > might be equipped with a Deore Rapid Rise rear derailleur. My intention was > to get what looked like a good deal, give it the full strip down and > rebuild, and flip it. > But it's my size. > It's hardly been ridden. > It sorta ticks some boxes I didn't know I had ;-) > It looks good. > > Mid-2000s Fuji Touring. British green with gold accents, and some > appealing (to me) touches like mid-fork eyelets, cantilever bosses, > braze-ons on the non-driveside chainstay to hold spare spokes, and 1" > Threaded headtube for a quill stem. THe RD is an M-530, so it's almost > certainly from the 2005-08 time period, and I lean towards the earlier part > of that window considering the 1" head tube. > My current plan is to keep it, make some changes (different bars - > Noodles? Ritchey Butano I have lying around?) and once again have a bike > with bar-end shifters. And of course keep the Rapid Rise on there. > I've got a couple overnight touring bikes, but both are 650b and disc > brake. This will be more of the bike I don't mind handing off to the guy on > Amtrak without concern for scratches in the baggage car. > Picture is what it looked like after I hosted off the dust - nothing more. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/92f290fb-39ad-47a6-8269-3e27c77bf336n%40googlegroups.com.
