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@veLLo
Just saw this!!
I had a Starnord! This was my first "adult" bike. A touring one, well, kind of touring (very budget parts and frame). I actually still have it. I was quite tall when I was 9, my parents bought me this Starnord bike on a Catalogue called "CAMIF" that was exclusively selling to teachers. I think I never put anymore miles on any of my other bikes, as I kept using it until I finished uni (at 23). Sorry to tell about my boring life but that bike has an emotional connection with me, as you can understand...
I can name what parts are still original, but I changed pretty much everything on it, not for fun, but because they needed replacing (wheels, BB, headset and fork after an epic crash that deserve to be described on the fail thread or drawn in the collision thread, etc...), and learned bike basic mechanics with it... I broke the rear dropout on the drive side because I was carrying too much stuff on the back carrier, including heavy friends of mine... I badly rewelded them myself at my school workshop, but it kept breaking again until my dad got a friend of his to do a proper job. I also has been repainted a few times...
It is still at my parents, heavy as hell, gas pipe tubbing, shit parts, I don't really like using it anymore (frame is 55 I think, I need a 60!) but I find it hard to throw it away...
Thanks for bringing me these memories! Your one looks of a better range from Starnord... at the time, I would have been so jealous of your center pull brakes!!
Loic