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Mickyc10
Sup bro. I'm on the same boat here. My first road bike was a 5200 back in the day.
Fast forward to 2015 I got myself the same 5500 you've got. It came with full 7700 but not 100% true to the 1999 bike (i.e. it head a threadless headset instead of threaded).
I rode it for about a year as such, stripped it, went modern (Columbus minimal fork, Dura ace 9000, zipp 808s, etc). As a matter of fact, my profile pic here on LFGSS is me racing a crit on that bike in its second iteration.
Fast forward a bit, that bike got stripped and I went full, 100% true to, 1999 bike build. That include sourcing out what was an incredibly hard to find one inch thread cutter (thanks Mattias!) and an even harder shop willing to give the threading a go (thanks TLC near Clapham Common!).
The bike is now exactly as per the 1999 pics you'll find on the webz. Right headset, stem, bars, bar tape, groupset, sick Mavic Heliums (you'll find pictures of the team riding heliums (red hubs and rims) and some other mavics. I went for heliums cause of how the red worked with the frame).
Aaaaaanywho, that project has kept me busy for the past five years. I still ride that bike and love it to bits.
Shout if I can help.