After a bit of a hiatus I finally got round to completing the build.
As mentioned earlier, from new it was specced with a full M560 LX groupset, but some of the parts got changed and the LX bits sold on to friends. The brakes were replaced by flashier (read expensive) ones, which I'm pretty sure were lost in a house move a few years ago
, so it now has 987s - light, effective and easy to set up, and also from the same period.
The black LX cranks went to look scruffy very quickly and were replaced by something also very flashy. But it's now wearing M730 XT items, kindly donated by my brother's British Eagle Boss that he abandoned 25 years ago. Not known for his mechanical sympathy they were in a bad way, but they've polished up nicely with only a few of the deeper scratches remaining.
The headset would never stay in adjustment and for the life of me I have no idea why I didn't change it years ago. This new one is a Tange cartridge bearing unit, but its stack height is a bit shorter and not wanting to cut the forks I've used 6mm of spacers, which isn't ideal but not the end of the world.
The Control Tech stem was fitted from new to give me a bit more room. Bars are Easton EA70s, which have been on for years but I can't remember when they were fitted. Seatpost is Orange, just not the original one, and the seatpost QR was removed in the early days when I was having issues with the original 26.8mm post. The cables are all new Shimano, the grips are ODI Attack repops and the chain is a new KMC piece. Tyres aren't period, but they are NOS and pretty light.
Depending on which bike I was using BITD I used to take the M737 pedals off my Trimble and put them on the Vit-T, but after a couple of years the Orange was treated to its own pedals the the M535s on the bike are those very pedals. They're a couple of years too new for a catalogue build, but this bike isn't that, and they have been on the bike for almost 30 years.
Everything else - brifters, both mechs, BB, wheels and seat - have been on the bike for 31 years.
It weighs 9.7kg / 21lb 6oz with pedals, which isn't too bad considering it's not really a "light" build.