Sianelle 

Excellent finds there Both bikes look to be in very very original condition

Jocache83

sup guys,

i clean up foreclosed homes where i live (woo hoo, stockton ca #1 in the usa for foreclosed) and this is what i found. a peugeot. dont know what kind is it, can anyone help? thanks

-holiday76

it's a 70's peugeot u0-8. low end bike boom bike. not worth much, but fixed up is a decent ride.

Jocache83

if i fix it in order for it 2 run, how much can i get out of it?

curbtender

Probably a few thousand miles.

Sianelle 

I know I would be awfully pleased to own it A good clean and lube and you'd have a useful bike that would see you right for a good while.

Jocache83

thanks for the info, feels like ill be collecting more bikes if they're left at abandoned homes. how much do u money can i get out of it as is (after i clean it up) and how much when it's ridable?

Joel

mrejda

I'll give you about tree fitty

Anyhoo, I've got two for this thread: A 1953ish Norman 3sp that I found on the side of the road back in May or so and a 1984ish Raleigh USA that I just found during my ride last Sunday.

The Norman: The SA shifter is a GC2 model, which is from 1950-53. I havent gotten any codes from the hub yet, probabaly not going to start cleaning this guy up until it cools down a bit. It seems to be in great shape though, I'm thinking make the shiney parts shiney and leave the paint alone for a nice patina.



And the Normans themselves:



The Raliegh: I need some help on this one as I'm not sure what model it is (Prestige, Super Course?). There is no decal near the seat tube.
SN# is B500606 with an "N" and a circled "R" underneath. Tubing is labeld "555sl" but the decal indicating Japan or Taiwan as the origin is missing. It has the diacomp aero AC300G brakes and Raleigh branded SR cranks but the rest of the drivetrain is Shimano (Black) Golden Arrow. The RD is a A105 model with an "HL" date code (Dec 1983?), Araya 700cc wheels and IRC Handytour tires. The coloring is Blue/grey with yellow "USA" lettering.
Finally, the main tubes seem okay but the stays and the fork have a ton of surface rust. Have a look at the shot of the fork and assume that the stays are about in the same shape. If I manage to clean it all up and there is no major damage would you think this would be a canidate for repainting?

Sianelle 

Oh wow - a Norman! A definite yes to keeping the patina. Afterall it took years to get to look like that so why mess with success

That Raleigh is a great find. I think you will find that the rust on the forks will be only surface rust and should clean up Ok. I would try a repaint on the silver and a good clean and polish up on the blue before going for a total strip down. On interesting bikes I do my utmost to keep as much of the original finish as I can because once it's gone it's gone forever.

USAZorro

That will be an excellent bicycle when set right.

xrongor

Found this by the side of the road with a bunch of other bikes and a sign that said 'free bikes'. I should have taken a before picture. it was a mess, but i loved the 3 speed twist grip shifter. Cleaned it up and replaced the brake cables, tubes, tires, and seat. i have also added an old school chrome rack on the back with the two wire basket's on the sides. I just love it.

Kid_Carbine

<--- BEFORE [see earlier post]

OK, it's been a little while but I have now had the SJH out on the road & it's wonderfull. Yesterdays racebike sure makes a great example of todays sport bike.

The ghastly dayglow orange bar tape has been replaced as have the brake cables, & the correct Fibrax red brake blocks will be fitted tomorrow.
I needed to replace the newer & mismatched wheels & discovered that the frame had been widened to 130mm. Damned crazy, but it's straightened out now.
I found some lovely green Airlight Continental hubs supporting Fiame Red Label 'Singles' rims [tubulars to Americano's] in my back room but the spokes were big [14g] & rusty, & were not interlaced, so $144 later & I had some lovely 15/17/15 stainless spokes. The rear rim was cracked in 5 spots but fortunately Fiamme Red Label rims were very popular & I have several sets spare so I spoked in a replacement.

The wheels are now built, the Simplex 5 speed block is on & the Italian made Simplex 'Tour de France' derailleur is now correctly installed & it shifts crisply & firmly. This one is their 'Competition' model
Two new tyres were glued in place & the wheelset is perfect.

Yes, I know that the derailleur looks wrong in the picture with the jockey wheel sticking up like that but it has been installed as per the original Simplex instruction sheet & it works perfectly.

The cylindrical object on the left seat stay is a tail light. It was actually new as it still had the original cardboard filling in where the single 'D' cell battery went. One new battery & it works fine.
The all alloy raceweight bell now works well. It sounds dull flat & awfull, but it works well.

I removed the original Brooks B17 saddle & substituted the B37 that I had sent off to England for repair last year. [Busted alloy chassis parts, a common fault with them] These are dimentionally identical to the B17 but for the Stainless & Aluminium underpinnings.

I need to fit the correct silver/gray brake cable sheath that I have & replace the derailleur cable if I can find a new one, then some fine tuning, retrue the wheels a couple more times & see if I can ride myself off to a heart attack. [I'm old]

petflunky

Sooo lucky. Last week I saw a road bike for sale. I need parts to fix my Schwinn, so I stopped and looked. It was a 26" Murray roadie, too small for me, too big for my son, so I passed. Turns out the guy had 8 other bikes for sale, and I just missed them. I was bummed about it, because I went past his place a couple of times, but he had them out of site from the road. Yesterday, on our drive home from bicycling, we saw an old Raleigh at a yard sale. I think it was a 3 speed, fenders, lights, beautiful shape. I had just sold for $15. Oh, well. Someday I will find a "parts bike", so I can get my Schwinn rolling. I might even get lucky and score a 24 incher for my son :0)

brandenjs

What parts might you be looking for? And what year bike is it? I just took some stuff off of my 82 LeTour to upgrade it so I've got some things laying around...

mastronaut

I found this Saturday!



More Here:
https://s110.photobucket.com/albums/n...ars%20Austria/

USAZorro

Depends a lot on where you live. I'd estimate $75.00 if you can clear up the rust and have everything working. Add up to $50.00 more if you live in a cycling conscious city (New York, San Francisco, Portland, Washington, etc).

xrongor

wow nastronaut thats quite a beauty!

btw, does anybody know where to get a replacement rear refector for the rear fender like the one on that bike? i have the same fenders but cannot find one.

thx
randy

mastronaut

I am lucky this one is intact, most are broken that I come across....

RickAccused

Well, I went to the scrap yard the otherday and much to my dismay, the guy there told me that though they get many bikes coming through each day, that he could not sell me anything, that once it hit the group they had to scrap it per state law. So my new plan is to intercept people at the gates and buy the bikes from them there... he didn't say anything about that being illegal...

Sixty Fiver

After rebuilding my '62 Peugeot last May I have ridden close to 10,000 trouble free kms on the bike... I've replaced one chainring and one cog due to wear, went through 3 chains, and just repacked all the bearings as a matter of general maintainence.

mastronaut

This is an unfortunate fact of the times.
Scrap metal is pulling in reasonably good cash right now,
which is going to deplete the find factor for us 'recyclers'.
Many of the dumps won't allow picking that had no policies
just last year! There's nothing worse than seeing a bike at the dump
and know that it will be crushed...it's such a waste.

Kid_Carbine

This is another SJH bike that I recovered alongside the red road bike that has been discussed about ten posts further back. This one too is from the 1951 to '56 era but is built with the earlier "English headset" lugs which were still the mainstay of frame building at the time
.
This one was chromed originally & I recovered it minus the wheels, cranks & pedals.
It would have been another 'Built to customers order' machine as these small bespoke bike shops never carried floor stock higher than the popular 'roadster' grade of bike. All the good stuff was made to order.

It had an extremely rare Mansfield RR56 saddle with its unique Hiduminium frame. [HI DUty aluMINIUM] This was the postwar version of the pre war 'Ormond' saddle & is almost identical. It is unfortunately in quite poor condition so I will be preserving it & keeping it with my other Mansfield saddles as a display item. I substituted a Mansfield Ace of the same vintage that was in 'ordinary' condition so it blends in with the bike quite well. The Ace is a contemporary of the Brooks Swallow but without the design flaws that still exist in the current production examples.

The head stem is also a quite rare VEW girder type & I have only ever seen two in the last 35 years.

I am currently laid up with a lung infection so I am largely confined to one room of the house with a heater running full time [It's winter here] & boredom dictated that I see what I could do with this one.

The wheels came out of the back room & are New Fiamme Yellow label clinchers laced to VEW [Velox Engineering Works] low flange alloy hubs. Velox were among the earliest makers of alloy cycle components in the world with their first all-alloy hubs appearing in about 1936. They never ever made steel or 3 piece hubs like all the others.
I built these wheels almost 20 years ago when teaching myself wheel building but never had a bike to put them on
I have 2 track SJH's & a 10 speed racer, so I felt that a single speed was in order & that's what it most likely was when it was when new & that's what it will be now,.

I found a pair of steel Stronglight cranks in the cranks box & since they too were right for the 50's, they have gone on but pedals are tomorrows exercise.

The Monitor Speedster brakes are in very poor condition & I will need to overhaul these completely before using them so its a good thing I have spares. New cables & brake blocks are of course a standard part of any of my rebuilds of a rescued bike.
Anyway, it will keep me distracted while I convalesce & will make a nice complementary single speed ride to my red SJH.

This is how I picked it up.



This was once a beautiful Mansfield. ..................with its unique Hiduminium frame.



This is todays effort with cranks, wheels & Mansfield Ace saddle..

freedom?

you should all just repaint all the frames and put better components on them, that way a really good bike comes from these old bikes.

kvojr

Saved this from the trash on the way to work the other day. It's a 1995 ProFlex 555. Now if I can just find a replacement rear shock I'll be set.

Marrock

Thought I had a decent find this morning when I saw someone had set a bike out to the curb...

...unfortunately it was just an old Sears Free Spirit.