I wouldn't say "ahead of its time." It was totally of its time - and what a good time it was! Nice touring bikes had really come into their own in the early 80s - with long wheelbases, braze-ons for racks and fenders, wide-range gearing. Many of the Japanese makers were building some sweet tourers in the first half of the 80s - Miyata, Centurion, Nishiki, Bridgestone, and more. In Bicycling Magazine in the early 80s, the ads were dominated by good touring bikes, racks, bags, and everything needed to take off cross country.
I had an article looking at some of the bikes that were available at the time on The Retrogrouch Blog last year - here's a link: http://bikeretrogrouch.blogspot.com/2014/04/just-add-bags.html Great bikes - nice find! Kyle Brooks Akron, OH, USA On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 12:44:32 PM UTC-4, Jon Dukeman in the foothills of Colorado wrote: > > A friend brought this out of his basement..Very popular in the 80s.A > Univega "Grand Tourismo.Pretty cool bike! > Did an overhaul and replaced stem 100mm stem with a Nitto Technomic 70 mm. > Ahead of it's time..Sealed Suntour Hubs, Braze-ons for racks and fenders. > Chainrings :52-46-28 > freewheel:5 speed ,14-17-20-24-28 > wheels 27-1/4 > Replaced old cracked tires with 27-1/4 Schwalbe Marathons. > Still awaiting new saddle of owners choice. > Great bike for paved & dirt trails. > > > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
