anybody know what this is?

[bikeworks]

I STAND CORRECTED. I forgot about the Nishiki Aero, from 1982. It would have had a SunTour drivetrain on it or MAYBE a Shimano 600AX, but based on the shifters it was SunTour.

If complete and in good shape, the bike would be worth about $50 to $100. There are many people who claim to sell used bikes but actually just "flip" them- clean them up, maybe add new tires or handlebar tape, and sell for multiples of their actual value. Forget about service and returns.

Of course, I am excluding sonnyhl because he is honorable in all his dealings and refuses to sell stuff beyond their true value, refurbishes the bikes completely, includes a service warranty, and offers a return window. He would never sell a bike at an inflated price and never sell one that hasn't been properly looked after.

He is obviously experienced in frame design and construction as he knows the frame is made of "hard metal" which was, at the time the bike was built, the true test of a quality frame. This was much more advanced than other metals of the time. I always thought that Tange made that tubeset of chrome molybdenum rather than the impossibly rare "hard" stuff. OK. I am being sarcastic... in reality, there are only a small handful of pre-hardened tubesets (Reynolds 753 is one) and a few air-hardening tubesets (like Reynolds 853) and I can't think of a single steel tube that would crack if it was crushed after being properly fashioned into a bike frame.

Aside from the sarcasm, sonnyhl is correct about the model of the bike, but that's about all.