the brake cables also would require a change.In fact the previous owner had put a straight bar brake levers, as you can see in this image: ![]() the handlebar is missing any tape and, most of all, the brake levers.The BB has some problems (I can feel some movement on the pedals.The Miyata is in a bad shape, but repairable. However, the bike does fit me and I remember having hand-weighted a Miyata One Hundred two weeks ago (it seemed very light-weight) The Miyata 100 (as I’ll call it from now on) in one of the low-entry models from the Japanese producer. ![]() (I also got another handlebar with some old brake levers on it and an old saddle as part of the deal). They would agree to give me the 4 shitty ones for free if I pay 500 SEK for the Miyata and so five new bikes join my collection. However, apart from 4 old crappy bikes they had a Miyata 100, a low-end model from the Japanese producer: And Sunday I was almost two hours late, meantime they had a lot of people looking for bikes and picking the best stuff. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to arrive Saturday afternoon, as I only saw their ad few minutes before they were closing. ![]() 50 SEK (6 Eur) for a bike is not that bad, so I figured I would go and have a look. They are moving now from Bromma to Southern part of Stockholm and they had a big sale on crappy old bikes that were in their stock. There are some guys in Stockholm that are recovering old bikes about to be thrown away and putting them back on the road.
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