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What a lovely bike - chapeau to you sir. I bet this is dead comfy with the larger tyres?

I really like your choice of quality retro components. Are you a friction or index cove?

Love it - handsome frame. Are they really closing soon?

On tour, I used an older set of 6 speed down tube levers (shimano 600) with
a 9 speed cassette. I was pleasantly suprised by how well it worked. Shifting from low to high was really easy. once or twice i messed up shifting from high to low. That, however, was my fault for not 'reading the road' properly.
i enjoyed the hassle free nature of the set up and plan to put together a winter/tourer exactly as before. i may even consider 10 speed.

Yes, I kneel and genuflect before that beautiful Daccordi.
Truly a MGOOF to treasure.
Is there truly any difference between this bike and a more 'modern'
road bike?

That's rather nice - a pity it's too small for me.

Handsome frame - downtube shifters especially friction can be married with
all speeds cassettes. I ran old seven speed shimano shifters with a 9 speed shimano cassette for many tours and general hacking about . I encountered no problems and enjoyed the simplicity.

I use dt levers on a couple of bikes. I enjoy the simplicity and 'modern 'indexing works so well. I find that I'm not changing gear a lot rather it's a case of anticipating gradients and the gear I need. I really like the uncluttered handlebar set up and besides I'm not sure I could manage to cable a modern brifter set up. Imagine on tour, if you dropped your bike and had a brifter break! What on earth would you do? I think i'll stick with a technology I'm familiar with.

Retro heaven

Far too nice to sell on - 'one bike to rule them all'.