Quote Originally Posted by ridebikeme View Post
With the current bikes with indexed shifting, the drivetrains Do indeed wear together. Normally you would replace a chain and a cassette or freewheel. However, if the bike was old enough to not have indexed shifting(each gear clicks into place) normally the chains and freewheels wear for quite awhile, and could be replaced replaced separately... although not always the case.

I do indeed hope that the shop has the orginal bike... keep us posted!
Sorry for the thread hijack TE Ridebikeme and other TE techie gals - the wearing all together stuff ... I thought that was a Campy vs Shimano thang. That Campy is modular: wear out the chain, replace the chain but Shimano you wear out one thing and might as well get the whole works.

But maybe MY LBS told me that to get me to buy Record I'm glad I did though.

Can you just get the part on Shimano (we don't know if that's what he had).