Fifty Plus (50+) - How about a little "Eye Candy"?...Show us your Blue Bikes!!

It's been rainy and dreary around here for what seems like forever. I wanna see some blue and if it can't be blue sky, why not pictures of your blue bikes?

So come on, somebody out there must be riding Blue Bikes!

Post some pictures and cheer this Gloomy old man up a little bit.

Pleeeease!!

Ok... both these bikes are over 50.

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/1950sportglenora2.JPG

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/edith2010spring1.JPG

im only half way to 50 but this frameset was handed down to me from my father who is over the mark. (does that count?)

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk177/thirdgenbird/bike-random/DSC01109.jpg

You want blue bikes? Okay...

Italian, a friend's bike from his racing days:

http://world.std.com/~muller/pics/BlueMasi/P8140062.JPG

French, both Peugeots, the tandem is ours, the other is a co-worker's:

http://users.rcn.com/jimmuller/pics/twoFrenchbikes.jpg

English, from a ride this past September:

http://users.rcn.com/jimmuller/pics/nice_view.jpg

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll210/wildcat-bucket/2010bikepictures016.jpg

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll210/wildcat-bucket/Jan2010017.jpg

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http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll262/kurterle/DSC00071.jpg

It's just barely blue but its a gas to ride. My Serrota T-Max Commuter bike....


http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd133/stealthammer/Da%20Serotta/DaSerotta_02a.jpg

Want

"Blue Steel", my 1999 Schwinn Peloton. Reynolds 853 tubing with Ultegra and Dura-Ace components.

http://www.brucew.com/images/peloton/800x600/2nd-portrait.jpg

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The first and fourth are now gone, but still available for a gratuitous photo op... I like blue bikes. :D

Brad

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I'll play...

[/ATTACH]229902229904229905229906229907229908I like blue bikes, I like old bikes, I love old blue bikes!

One of my two blue bikes:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8127cx0fsKg/TerAFd-b41I/AAAAAAAAAJw/_o7vk-ixDRY/s640/My%252520New%252520bike.JPG

I have two;
This old Bruce Gordon Custom...owned for 30 years now:
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/northbend/P1020930.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/northbend/P1020163.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/northbend/P1030187.jpg
And this Merckx MX Leader…autographed last summer by it's namsake
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/northbend/P1020037.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/northbend/P1010912.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj140/northbend/P1020703.jpg

Blue bikes? Why have Blue bikes. They are heavy-Don't go round corners and the brakes don't work.

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My old Nashbar Alpha 5000 Toure. I've since used the components on my Trek 460 frame and and built up the Nashbar with other stuff. Sorry for the lousy pic quality...I think these were taken with a cell phone.

I'm afraid at the moment my bike is more medicine than candy! :D

But if I can ever get time to even think about it, I'm trying to work toward some new candy. Possibly of the Specialized variety... one of these days. :thumb:

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My wonderful utility blue LHT sans panniers.

A couple of these blue bikes look green to me.

Not exactly a glamour shot, but here's my blue bike:

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4069/4629530382_2e7904e98f_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterofpuppets/4629530382/)
Pinarello (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterofpuppets/4629530382/) by Lester Of Puppets (http://www.flickr.com/people/lesterofpuppets/), on Flickr

The Colnago Master XL & the Indy Fab Ti Crown Jewel

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This was taken in August at the Four Star Ride, formerly called the Boulevard Lakefront Tour.
That's our 04 Cannondale. One of our 3 blue bikes.

Blue Breezer Villager with blue ginger
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Blue Breezer with blue saddle cover, fuzzy dice, and parasail
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Blue? This has a little bit of blue ..... and black and white. ;)

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http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/fixed-frame/completed.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/telehammer/Rowtrail17.jpg

Cannondale Synapse in beautiful Oregon

im only half way to 50 but this frameset was handed down to me from my father who is over the mark. (does that count?)

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk177/thirdgenbird/bike-random/DSC01109.jpg

Tommasini is classic cool.

How about my old steed:

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Tommasini is classic cool.

thanks, i had a great time building it. i fully expect to own it when i am 50+


How about my old steed:

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i love it. you equipped it very nicely.

The only blue bike I have is my $50 CL find, an 86 Schwinn Prelude, which is my Beater #1 bike.

http://www.cehoward.net/preraw33x.jpg

Feeling kinda blue today, but the sunshine helps..................

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z284/JanMM/IMG_3595.jpg

My n+1

http://www.bdgconsulting.com/bikeAtCircleSquare.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh168/curbtender/DSC00554.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh168/curbtender/DSC00176_edited.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh168/curbtender/DSC00169_edited.jpg

Ok, here's my vintage Guerciotti

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My Beautiful Blue Bike Built By Bend's Bob Beckman :-)

My new pride and joy, just two weeks old, over 300 miles on it so far:

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http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa394/rck22/bike%20stuff/bikestuff021.jpg

This is my trail bike-Specialized Sirrus with a couple of mods. Below is my cannodale 400st that I bought in 1990. The car, oddly enough, which looks blue to me, is green at least according to Subaru.

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa394/rck22/bike%20stuff/bikestuff005-1.jpg

http://ca.tetracam.com/cassave/finished1.JPG

Did about 95 miles on this one today. Great weather here in SoCal.:D

http://ca.tetracam.com/cassave/finished1.JPG

Wow! That is gorgeous!

http://ca.tetracam.com/cassave/finished1.JPG
As I recall, you built that, did you not? Your build thread over on Framebuilders is one of the best threads I've seen.

Curbtender, your bike looks familiar. Sort of like my wife's. :D

http://home.comcast.net/~trsnrtr/Trek2.JPG

I've another one without the postal logo thats waiting for some donor parts. Nice riding frames.

I don't have a blue road bike (mine is red, black and silver) but my hybrid qualifies.

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2010 Giant Cypress.

Blue bikes? Why have Blue bikes. They are heavy-Don't go round corners and the brakes don't work.

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Yo dude. If you can't do it on a blue bike, you're a wuss and a poseur. ;-)

SP
Bend, OR

And now for something completely different;
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As I recall, you built that, did you not? Your build thread over on Framebuilders is one of the best threads I've seen.

Yup. Same bike.

Yo dude. If you can't do it on a blue bike, you're a wuss and a poseur. ;-)
+1 I ride blue bikes just to prove I can.

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My 1997 R500 Cannondale, Road double conversion from a triple.
Sorry about the inside shot, its dark so a white wall was the way to go.

Bill

Purchased this bike new on July 23, 1982 - quite a few years before the Smithsonian got one just like it for their collection. Here's a shot from last summer:

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Ah, the adventures we've had together.

I can contribute here too....

Pictured here is one of two (it's a long story) Schwinn 354's. They're aluminum frame bikes that Schwinn refered to as 'Racing Bikes'. I can assure you that they most certainly are not Racing Bikes when I ride them!! This bike was born on March 26th, 1991. I had a larger cassette and longer R.D. installed to help get my fat self through the hilly Finger Lakes area.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r152/crankyolddude/Bikes/IMG_0418.jpg


Here's a picture of my 2005 Volae Tour at the Port of Rochester.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r152/crankyolddude/IMG_1388.jpg


There are a few more blue bikes kicking about. Some of them belong to my daughter while the rest are either donor bikes or future project bikes.