A portrait of the bicycle as a young build: (painted) fork, unpainted frame, uncleaned “original” components:

The new members of the family:

Classic-styled Nitto bars and an NOS SR stem are closer to what would have been (factory) original equipment on this bike. The Tektros, interrupt levers, and (flat bar) Suntour Power Control shifters are most definitely not.

“Bending aluminum” and “destructively editing vintage Suntour parts” are activities I usually put in a similar category to kicking dogs and stealing candy from small children. But I convinced myself that these shifters would never find a better home than on what should be this blog’s trademark build, so bent and ground they were to fit the fatter drop handlebars.