Classic & Vintage - Classic Specilized Road Bike Thread

Bikeforums.net is a forum about nothing but bikes. Our community can help you find information about hard-to-find and localized information like bicycle tours, specialties like where in your area to have your recumbent bike serviced, or what are the best bicycle tires and seats for the activities you use your bike for.



PDA
Sirrus Rider
05-04-08, 11:56 PM
Let's see 'em Boys! Here is mine.

This is a 47cm 1988 model year Sirrus. Largely original except for the Brooks swift (came with a Selle Italia Mondalita?), cartridge bottom bracket,and the elimination of the original Biopace chainrings with a campy 52 and 44 round rings, Shimano A520 SPD pedals (came with Shimano 105 toe clips), and the replacement of the Strong seatpost (Wasn't so strong in the face of 200lbs and twenty years) with a Shimano Ultegra. When new it wore Specialized Turbo/S gumwalls now it's in Serfas blackwalls. I'm the original owner.


http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q219/Sirrus-Rider/07%20Bikes/88SpecializedSirrus2.jpg

dannyg1
05-05-08, 12:07 AM
Alrighty then. Here's a quite lovely Allez that rides as well as any bike I've ever owned. As a matter of fact, it was my favorite ride for a 62 mile RT commute I was doing for a good bit of last year and, just so you know, I've owned over 60 road bikes in my life, from the lowly Raleigh's, to the Columbine, Paramounts, Kellogg Spectrum's, a couple of Serotta's, and on...

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/hpsworkshop/Allezbluefulldriveeversmaller.jpg

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/hpsworkshop/AllezBlueShifters.jpg

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/hpsworkshop/AllezBlueHeadlugs.jpg

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o222/hpsworkshop/AllezBlueHbarwrap.jpg
Saddle Up
05-05-08, 09:14 AM
Beautifull bikes!!

rufus
05-10-08, 07:43 PM
My 1989 Sirrus. The only thing really still stock about it is the brakes, derailleurs, front rim, and downtube shifters, although the shifters are now Ultegra. Other pieces have been upgraded or replaced as they wore out: Ultegra bottom bracket, headset, round chainrings, new nine speed cassette, 3T bars and stem, Cane Creek brake levers.

As it came:
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/rufus21_photos/my%20bikes/1989%20Sirrus/6f7c9876.jpg

as it's now set up, for bad weather/winter bike duty
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/rufus21_photos/my%20bikes/1989%20Sirrus/with%20fenders/d3c42743.jpg

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/rufus21_photos/my%20bikes/1989%20Sirrus/with%20fenders/1402f897.jpg

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/rufus21_photos/my%20bikes/1989%20Sirrus/with%20fenders/14cecda5.jpg

funny how all three of these bikes seem to have a worn spot in the paint in exactly the same spot on the downtube.
Yogurt
05-10-08, 07:49 PM
Awesome stuff! I am working on a 1986 Allez SE/SIS that I picked up for $90 for a friend. I'll post it once it's done.