Zieleman

Are your girls competing this weekend?

pullup

I am not directly coaching one of the crews this year, decided to focus om development, but 4 of my girls made the eight, 2 are in the fours and 1 is in the double so there is a lot to cheer for me next week.

Italuminium

Awesome. Wish I could see some, but this is exactly the weekend I can't be in Amsterdam.

pullup

Just a nice pic of the later to be worldchampion Gerrie Kneteman winning a race on his pretty looking RIH

non-fixie 

Thanks for the assist:

Kneet's little girl about dad and his bike

bonzoxedge

Concorde Colombo lo-pro/TT

paulkal

Interesting looking bike. How does it ride?

bonzoxedge

It rides fine, but it's a bit to small for me (hence the long stem). I have other TT bikes that fit me better.

Lenton58 

I'll compliment him. It's gorgeous!

Dizono

That Concorde-TT bike is beautiful!!! Except for the saddle but that's also because it came on my second hand yellow alu-racer and had just the wrong color of yellow. To be honest, it does fit this bike better then mine.

This topic deserves to be on the first page, so my '85 Gazelle again, now with all the sweet stuff mounted:









-1985 Gazelle Champion Mondial AB 531c 60cm
-RSX 7-speed STI's and triple front derailleur
-RX100 triple crankset (polished)
-Dura-Ace 7700 rear derailleur
-Ultegra 6600 brakes
-Rose-built wheels with Xtreme Airline 4 rims, DT spokes and 105 5800 hubs (with three spacers for 7-speed casette)
-Dura-Ace PD-7401 pedals
-Chinese saddle that suits me well =)

It's my main bike, so well functioning parts (like modern brakes) are more important for me then period correctness. It rides like a dream, got two KOM's today (with help of a strong wind... ).

teague1986

Duell Speeder
I'm not sure material

non-fixie 

Nice! Signed by Jan van Dalen, the frame builder.

uberprutser

Anyone ever heard of this Dutch brand?

Zieleman

Until today I admit Valuas has not crossed my eyes. A quick google tells me the brand is from Venlo est. 1884. Quite old so to speak. Could it be named after Valuas (folklore) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

btw Uberprutser is the best nick I've heard yet Welcome to the forums!

paulkal

Valuas was a department store brand, sold by V&D if I remember corerctly.

uberprutser

The cheap parts used on this bicycle does support your V&D theory. (Plastic bike stand, unadjustable saddle, foam on iron drop bars) I think is was made somewhere in the eighties and thats long after the original Valuas manufacturer in Venlo had stopped production. So it looks like someone somewhere reused the Valuas name.

Wulf

Cool folk tale!

non-fixie 

Not that I needed another winter project, but I thought this would make a really neat ride for next year's Tour d'Historique in Haarlem:



Springfield was the house brand of Willem Metz, a former track racer, who opened a bike shop Haarlem in 1948. The frames were built by Amsterdam builders Jasper Bouma (of JABO fame) and Jacobus "Witte Ko" de Jong, and many local racers rode them. Somewhere during the seventies (?) Metz closed his shop and the Springfield brand was adopted by Fred Hoogland, who ran Hoogland Sport, also in Haarlem. As far as I know Witte Ko continued to build Springfields.

There is no serial number. The porta catena dropout and the over the BB shell cable guides put the build year somewhere in the late seventies, I think. Paint and decals were clearly inspired by a competitor.

Zieleman

What a great score! Your first Springfield? That would go supremely well with an Ijsboerke jersey

non-fixie 

How many does one need, do you think?

compay

Hello all classic bikes fans

I have gotten a RIH bike from a friend who lives close to Groningen. I have cleaned and lubrificated all the parts and refreshed the wheels with new spokes. It has Mafac dural forge brakes, luxe Citam stem, Steenbergen/A. Schotte steer, Huret Allvit 5 gears, Nervar chainwheel, Normandy hubs. It has a blue RIH plate on the front, RIH Amsterdam written on it. Further it has the Rih on both sides with the bustraan amsterdam in between. The are zero numbers ingraved at the place where normally the RIH amsterdam or Fongers are engraved. At the bottomlug of the headset on the left side i find the number 60.....at the lug on top of the seatpost I find the number 73....at the seatpost self i find a really ingraved number O5567 (zero or the letter O) and maybe followed by a K or X or this is some kind of damage...!!! This number can also be some kind of anti theft registration number. I am really happy riding the bike. I am born in 1968 in the Westerstraat, Amsterdam...almost above the RIH shop.

Would like to know some more.... A man who has worked in the Fongers factory say to me it's definitely not a Fongers RIH but one made for sure in Amsterdam....and somebody from RIH said that he thinks it's not made in Amsterdam. Who know more...!!! I will add some more photo's soon!

Marek

oh, I can see many lovely bicycles down here since I've posted mine so I think I can finish on my Bontekoe Super Course
It's been over two years since this rare frame appeared to be in my ownership and I finished it last summer. Pretty weakened from financials (putting into other projects) but I believe it came out somehow well. what ye think guys?



I've put it on my page, so if interested, kindly refer to: Steel Roadies: Bontekoe Super Course

It's not much for sell, I just love it too much but next season I'm gonna put more money into my workshop so maybe then..
cheers
M..

non-fixie 

That is a piece of art!

pullup

Beautiful indeed

Marek

appreciated!
It's definitely the great skills of Gerit Bontekoe expressed in this frame. The work is so clean and the chrome is of high quality lasting so long in this condition.
As we all may know, not only the commonly known brands of the past used to make high-end frames.