Bought my first road bike as a senior in high school in 1987. A Shogun Electra (or something like that). It had the first 105 index shifting system from Shimano (downtube, of course). Bought the bike in anticipation of doing my first triathlon, and a friend bought a Peugeot at the same time. We did races for years on those bikes.

Eventually upgraded to a Geurciotti frame and gave the Shogun frame to a friend who stripped the paint off it, spray painted it black and had a local shop weld cantilever brake bosses on the fork and seatstays. Anyway, after doing all that he never built it up and the last time I saw it, which was a year or two ago, it was still sitting in his garage.

Over the years, the Shogun had, in no particular order: the original Scott DH bars (in 1988 or so), those triangle profile bars, and one of those six pound "Seat Shifters". Thankfully, since then, I've backed off on the tri-geekiness.

My friend still has the Peugeot...

Great thread!!