There's a local shop in our area, a non-profit one that takes donated bikes and fixes them up to sell inexpensively to those who wouldn't be able to afford a decent machine otherwise. Occasionally they get some pretty nice donations through the door, so I dropped by once in a while to have a look and recently found this. Its a Canadian made Gardin mid range road bike from the mid eighties. All kinds of nice stuff, Columbus tubing, Cambio Rino driveline, Modolo brakes. I paid over the top for it, but they do boost the price on the nicer stuff to make money for the shop for parts, so I'm okay with that.
Being 60 and having a bad back and other assorted problems there's no way I'm riding a roadbike any more so its been fitted out with more humane bars and a nice Brooks saddle & grips as well as some modern lights and such.
The shop laced cheesy deep Chinese rims onto it because they didn't have any tubular tires. (I got the original rims with it) but they do look sorta cool.
Quite fun!
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