A candy red Nashbar with gold accents. Beautiful. It was completely classic, right down to the tan cork bar wrap and gum brake hoods.
6-speed, downtube shifters, lighter and faster than any bike I'd had before. I believe it was mostly Suntour Superbe Pro or something.
I used toe clips with cleated Detto Pietro shoes--perforated leather, laces, and not a spot of grippy stuff on the bottom of the shoes anywhere. I don't know how many times I nearly did the splits trying to walk in those things.
It was 1984, I was a freshman in college just getting an interest in competitive cycling and triathlons, and I'd never even SEEN a bike as nice as that one, and I mail-ordered it for the extravagant price of something like $300. I remember I had to borrow a hallmate's car to go pick it up at the shipping depot in the next town over.
Since it was the first bike I'd ever ridden that was actually a good, reasonably competitive bike, I've had a soft spot for it ever since. I actually still knew were it was until a couple of years ago when the second owner (a high-school friend of mine) sold it when he moved. I'm sure it was in the same near-mint condition in which I sold it to him--I don't think he ever rode it much, and generally just kept it in the spare bedroom of his apartment. If he'd let me know he was selling it, I would SO have bought it back.