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The rear hub is shimano cassette style, you could use a spacer kit if you wanted and replacing the free hub body if needed is simple enough. Drop outs are vertical so you would need a tensioner or to use the rear mech. Personally I'd loose the larger of the two front rings and just run a 1x9. The 28 tooth front ring is hardly worn and you'd stand a chance of being able to ride to the pitch. You could play magic ratios and half-links but I think the mech would be OK, it tucks in quite a bit in the bottom 3 gears on the block. Maybe get creative with a cage like they had in the 80's?
The bars are 5deg flat sweep. In the pics on Flikr the stem is flipped from how it's supplied. Flip it back over and you lift the bars about 5cm if you wanted the front higher. 31.8 clamp for easy riser bar fitting.
If you wanted to pop over for a look and a brew at some point just let me know, you're shit out of luck if you require artificial cow juice though!