After three years, I finally finished my restoration and build of this 53cm 3Rensho XR-7000 bike. I acquired it from Japan as a frameset, and discovered it was made under license by Yamakuni. Check out this prior article for the history and background. I had the fork re-chromed, but left the main triangle as-is. I bought a barely-used Georgina Terry Despatch from 1988, and stripped it for the 6-speed Suntour Cyclone 7000 groupset and the 24″ front / 700c rear wheelset. I’m aware the 3Rensho catalog showed it built with a Shimano 600 group, but they also sold it as a frameset. Cyclone was Suntour’s second-best group in the same way that 600 was a notch below Dura Ace.
The rear Araya rim had a crack in it, so I re-laced the hub to a brand new Araya RC-540 rim. The stem is a NITTO S65 Crystal Fellow with NITTO RB-021 bullhorn handlebars, matched to the NITTO S66 seat post. The 3Rensho saddle finishes off the build in style. Read on for more photos and ride report!
