What’s in the stand…

This old Ibis road frame came in to have an (almost) complete 8-speed Dura Ace group installed. The frame was virtually NOS. It had had a bottom bracket threaded into it at one time and the headset was already installed, but it didn’t appear that a rear derailleur had been threaded into the dropout as I had to clean out the paint a bit. Based on the serial number being a couple hundred after my 1991 Ibis SS number and the decal style, I would put this frame as a 1991 as well.

The biggest challenge was converting the 7-speed UG cassette body to accept 8 Hyperglide style cogs. A new 6500 series cassette body and right side cone followed by a redishing and she was ready to go to 8-speeds.

The old shifters are definitely crisp feeling. The modern shifters have lost that stiff, sharp spring and have become almost numb.