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Carmina is ok. đź‘Ť TA is just quality regardless.
I liked the Alize and Zephyr a lot, I keep my eye open for a cheap Zephyr but I think that bird has flown. There’s always a sweet period after something is discontinued when you can pick it up for cheap -before it becomes classic and collectible. A guy I lived with in a Philly had a Serotta track bike and he picked up Campag BMX cranks and Sheriff Stars for next to nothing. It was 1999 tho’2000 is definitely bitd, pre Fixie boom in bike terms snd before my nearly 20 year old daughter was born in personal history.
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The TA pro vis seemed too easy. I can't claim the Carmina as my own idea, that was straight from those Alex Singer bikes. I like it though, echoes of period stuff, cranks are a bit chunky. I ordered silver SRAM levers but they were black when they arrived, discontinued long ago apparently, just a dodgy ebay seller with the wrong pics. I stripped the ano and polished them. The gum coloured Hudz hoods are discontinued too, I've stashed another set. I haven't checked recently but a lot of the components on the Singer bikes was ~ 2000, from bitd when it was still polished alloy. Jeez, 2000, bitd.