rj987652003
08-04-04, 06:19 PM
somebody in my area is selling a columbia road bike from the 80's. Are these any good, or are they a junk bike?
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home4sale2
08-04-04, 11:22 PM
somebody in my area is selling a columbia road bike from the 80's. Are these any good, or are they a junk bike?
My first road bike, forget the color, think it was brown'ish, drop down handle bars, 10 or 12 speed I think?
Heavy, full of steel. Columbia made some decent department store bikes in the 80s. In my case the chain was always lose and skipped but a friend of mine (we bought it together) never had the same problem. Don't remember much else but I would imagine it isn't worth much these days. If it's cheap, go for it.
My first road bike, forget the color, think it was brown'ish, drop down handle bars, 10 or 12 speed I think?
Heavy, full of steel. Columbia made some decent department store bikes in the 80s. In my case the chain was always lose and skipped but a friend of mine (we bought it together) never had the same problem. Don't remember much else but I would imagine it isn't worth much these days. If it's cheap, go for it.
vr6ofpain
08-04-04, 11:57 PM
this was a post I put up a while back:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=51783
No one really helped me out, but I dont think they were very common.
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=51783
No one really helped me out, but I dont think they were very common.
khuon
08-05-04, 01:12 AM
My first bike was a blue and white Columbia singlespeed cruiser that my parents bought for me one Christmas from Sears. That was the bike I learned to ride on and I even took the training wheels off of it myself. Sadly it was stolen not too long afterwards. :( The frame was heavy but solid and it was reliable as it was a simple singlespeed with coaster brakes. Anyways, I did recall seeing some Columbia roadbikes in the mid-80s but they seemed only slightly better than the Roadmasters I saw at Target and K-Mart. I guess I might have ranked them somewhere in quality with Ross bicycles.
jfmckenna
08-05-04, 07:32 AM
The one my dad had was junk. I don't think it was from the 80's though, it was newer(is that a word?) than that. I was tightening the cable hanger bolt for the centerpull brakes and it sheared right off. Thats when I noticed that all the parts were so pathetically cheap that we ended up trashing it for fear it would cause an accident. imo I would look for something else...