I'm cross-posting this here since I was advised to by the people in r/bicyling

My wife was gifted this bike many years ago. I'm doing some cleaning out of the garage and since it hasn't been ridden in many years I've decided to investigate either selling it or donating to a local bike charity.

Can anyone provide guidance on exactly what I have here? Are any of the components interesting?

I'm assuming that if I were to sell it, eBay would be the best place?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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This is still my favorite series of a road bike. From owning 8 of them, to now only 2… 🙃 if anyone is in the market for a 56cm, reach out! Haha!

I want to order this but I’m not sure if it will fit into a regular modern cage. Does anyone happen to know?

Putting back together this french lyon, with upgraded components. This is the before and I will post the after later.

Is it possible to turn this bike from friction Shifters to STI shifters? If yes, what tools and what parts would I need to buy and adjust?

Hi all, this is a niche tech question but I hope people in this subreddit may be my best bet. I’ve done hours of searching on websites and blogs to limited success.

I have a late 80s Italian road bike with Campagnolo Doppler retrofriction shifters. This was my first experience with retrofriction, though I used regular friction shifters before.

Here’s my problem: I have to set them really tight to not have them slip to smaller cogs. I have verified as well as I could that they are assembled and mounted correctly, even found an old service note from Campy themselves describing how the conical washers are supposed to go, and I verified they do what they should without a cable attached (they move very easily towards larger cogs, but have more friction towards smaller cogs, with no cable attached).

As soon as a cable is on and they should do their thing, I have to set them really tight to avoid slippage, so that “both ways” feel tight and the accuracy suffers.

The RD is a late 80s Campagnolo Athena and all cables/outers are new and good.

Here’s the crazy thing: I’ve tried switching them to new Dia Compe Power Ratchets (Suntour style) and a very similar thing happens. So I’m reasonably sure it’s not that the shifters are somehow broken or misassembled.

By comparison, on another bike I run the cheapest ever setup with a SunRace RD (MT2) and the most basic regular SunRace friction shifters and I can set those to working with a lighter action with no slippage. How can it be possible that the lowest budget option can outperform the supposed holy grail of friction shifting, retrofriction shifters?

All I know is that it’s custom and has motorcycle parts on it but does it have any historical significance?

Picked up a “rough” free 80’s Miyata to do some fun build on. Currently looks like a frankenbike and not sure what to focus on or where to start. Handlebars aren’t the originals and a brake lever was added due to the new handlebars. Once again, free is the operative word here.

Question for the class.

Should I: A: build it back to it’s original state Or 2: build it as a commuter/ graveler.

Will have to change the handlebars and add a seat and saddle.

Thanks!