rjhammett

It is a 56cm ctc frame with a 33" standover. It was going to be my wife's bike but the standover was too much. She normally rides a 55/56cm.

ryan.karr22

Got you. I'm still pending the Brooks flyer

burnsadam

62cm Bianchi Randonneur. 64cm is more my size but oh well. Previous owner rattle canned it black, bummer. Rigged up an old Suntour MTB crank that was in a parts bin at the bike shop. 42/32/22, with 13-32 on the back. SUPER easy gearing, so sweet when carrying weight up big climbs. Fork was one of the recalled ones, so put a generic chrome unicrown one on there. Nitto Technomic/Noodle cockpit. Old Shimano 600 levers. New-ish Shimano shifters. Brooks B17. Front rack is Old Man Mountain, rear is Jandd (the extra long one). Wheels are old 36h Campy hi flange > open pros that a friend built for me, they've stayed so solid for many years now. 700x28 gatorskins. SKS fenders. Crane brass bell, love that thing. Ugly black thing on the seat post is a mount for a surfboard trailer, looks like crap on there but its really hard to install/remove so there it will stay. It is the Camping Bike. Top photo from a 200mi tour thru big sur last week, cambria>monterey and then back, 3 days up 3 days back. Northbound was super rough with the headwinds, but southbound mission (tailwind!!) was unreal...

jambon

My Bike would have originally looked like this :

koga_0066 by jambonsambo, on Flickr

When I bought it it looked like this :

43662664 by jambonsambo, on Flickr

And now it looks like this :

IMG_20160707_144513 by jambonsambo, on Flickr

himespau 

awesome

bikemig 

I picked up a 1982 Trek 720 earlier this summer. I rebuilt the bike and I've been enjoying it a lot:

styggno1

Meral Super Randonneur

Bought as an unused bare frame with original paint and decals. Built it up with TA, Mafac, Simplex, Huret dupoar titane, etc. Then got confused (many years ago) and repainted it in Audi ragusa green metallic with gold luglining - and built it up with an eclectic Campag mix. 40 spoke Record high flange hubs, old bar end shifters, Campagnolo Euclid cranks, etc. Today I regret both the repaint and switch in parts.

I did not buy the original chrome Meral racks back then - when I could have. Instead I got a blackburn front rack for braze on mounting in the front and then a second set of front Blackburn but for clamp on - which I use, low mounted, at the rear. I only needed to add one rod of chromemolly steel to get it to work. Has been working fine with heavy loads.





Touring Liguria

fenderbender

Beautiful bike Johan and would love to see it all dressed up with some nice mudguards and steel racks! Reminds me that I should get my build started.

non-fixie 

Nice! I need this kind of inspiration, as I'm still undecided about the build of my Roy Thame. I have narrowed it down to two options:

1. Light: MAFAC brakes and levers, Simplex retrofriction shifters, SunTour Cyclone derailleurs, TA Cyclotouriste triple crank set

2. Comfortable: Campagnolo old 9-speed brifters, Shimano Deore brakes and derailleurs, SR Apex compact double crank set

Mudguards: Bluemels Club Specials or Weinmann aluminium. Bars: probably Nitto B135. Saddle: Brooks B17 or Pro. Or Henri Gauthier 79.

Decisons, decisions, ....

styggno1

That is a nice frame!
@non-fixie
As I wrote - today I regret going Campag on my Meral. It would have been much nicer to have it with the old mix of high class touring stuff. I sold the parts not long after I made the change and then there is that Campagnolo decal on the frame... Now I am stuck (not that I am loosing any sleep over it).

If I were you I would go for no 1.

badger_biker 

Very nice! That color scheme is one of my favorites and the graphics are the best Trek ever had.

tarwheel 

My early 80s Specialized Sequoia is a sport tourer. I don't plan to use it for loaded touring, but so far I've used it for commuting, riding on greenways and trails, and as an all-arounder on a hub-and-spoke tour in Wisconsin. It's got enough clearance for 32 mm cross tires and rode great on Wisconsin's rail trails.

tiredhands 

(Crossposted from the Touring board)
I took this '90 Trek 520 on my first overnighter with it this past weekend. The build is a work in progress, but as it's also my commuter/only complete bike the progress is slow. However, it handled gravel and winding PA country roads beautifully.

non-fixie 

Thank you. That was just the little push I needed. Getting there:

Pemetic2006

That's a sweet bike. Great color.

The Golden Boy 

Congratulations on your first overnighter with your bike!

It seems "unique" to have a classic American style touring bike and have the front loaded, and no rear rack. I thought the Trek tourers weren't built as low trail bikes, so it's interesting that it worked well for you. (OK, I'm assuming it worked well for you. ). Usually you see the front end loaded on the classic French low trail tourers. I really like the front Blackburn style platform rack, if just to support a Front Bag. What kind of rack do you have on the front?

In any case- that's a great bike!

tiredhands 

Thanks! It was a super lucky Craigslist find. I'm a fan of front-loading, and I thought it worked very well, but that's likely because I'm already used to it from commuting and getting groceries. I don't feel the need for speed when loaded, so I don't mind the brutal aerodynamics. It's a Soma porteur rack, which has a pretty wide platform, and a Chrome porteur bag. The porteur bag, and the Nashbar panniers, are basically just big sacks, with no pockets, so I have an early Anhaica handlebar bag up there too for personal items and tools. I'll be investing in a Revelate half-frame bag to take over that job while also handling the tent poles, and a Carradice Camper for the saddle. First, though, I'll try to get one of those new Specialized Pizza racks, which should mount more snugly to the fork, centering the load over the wheel.

The Golden Boy 

Sweet! You totally know what you're doing!

One time I'd loaded up my fronts pretty heavy, it handled really poorly- and that was enough to scare me off of heavy front loading. Of course, I wasn't using a lowrider and I didn't try to even out the load- I should actually give it a much better effort.

lesterp66

I found this Nishiki (with rotten everything) last weekend and finally got a chance to rebuild it. Its a Gran Tour 15 from either 1978 or 80. The crankset (Maxy Tour) is original and that's about it. It rides nicely but a bit flexy so not sure what it would feel like loaded up.

The Golden Boy 

I finally got around to making some changes to my Trek 720. A while ago I had acquired a Technomic stem, but I was waiting for the time to get some new wheels and everything to entirely re-do the bike- as I'm realizing it's going to be much longer than I thought, I got a set of 44cm Nitto B177 bars and some Aero Gran Compe levers.

Here it is a few months ago:



And here it is with the new stem/bars/cable hanger/and levers:

otg 

Hi RT, I really like the bar tape on that 720(and the bike as a whole!), and it would be perfect for a 650b conversion I'm in the middle of. What is it?
Edit: Just noticed the rear derailleur, very nice! Suntour Lapree?

The Golden Boy 

Hi otg!

The bar tape is the Bontrager gel cork "brown." I preferred the older version in color and the pattern embossed into it.

Ha! That rear derailleur is pretty eye-catching, isn't it?! As far as I can figure, I think this one is an XC. It's a great derailleur, it shifts really well and it does a great job of taking up the chain slack.

Flog00

Wow! This bike is beautiful!

The 1979 Centurion Pro Tour



The 1983 Motobecane Grand Touring

otg 

Thanks! Great derailleur.

melville

It's beautiful, but I think it's been crashed. The head angle looks a bit steep.



It should be barely slacker than the seat tube. Feel around the ends of the head lugs, look for bumps or bubbles in the frame tubes. There may also be some cracked paint.

Be careful.