SteveSGP

Various acid baths will work, lots of people use Oxalic acid which is used as a deck wash, I use an acid wash that's sold for cleaning rust stains from concrete.

Otherwise naval jelly works, vinegar, chrome wheel polish, lots and lots of options.

Doohickie

Naval jelly will take the paint off, too. Be careful.

Standalone 

I keep piping up on BF about my hi-ten butted 1020 Panasonic. It's decently light and always rides nice and responsively. I think people tend to automatically dismiss 1020 bikes as gaspipe junk. Not always the case, although I'm sure there are hi ten clunkers out there.

Drummerboy1975

I scored this 1990 something Giant Sedona ATX with a Bianchi seat for free. I've been wanting to build an older mountain bike. Looks like I have it! Does anyone care to take a stab at the year? Its a complete Shimano STX group with a Shimano STX HyperDrive-C crank.

SteveSGP

I guess I was assuming the bike would be disassembled for cleaning. I shouldn't assume.

russd32

I like to use a term I heard from the TV show American Pickers....Farm Fresh

WNG

1994?

https://www.bikepedia.com/QuickBike/B...0ATX&Type=bike

Drummerboy1975

Yes but the Crank is different. Rather than whats listed it has a Shimano STX HyperDrive-C.

HSean

It's been a while since I posted on here, I have some new stuff!

A bunch of sports and a Lenton sports also a DL-1 thats got a huge frame.


Lugged bianchi Hybrid, It found a good home not long after I got it.


Vintage mountainbikes.



Peugeot Moped, It actualy runs, I had to clean fuel screen and it fired up. amazing old machines.

Roger M

This is not old enough for the forum here, but I'll post it anyhow. It's a Caloi aluminum entry level bike, probably 1999-ish. Was advertised on CL for almost a week, as a 'stainless steel bike'. It's only RSX stuff, but it works good, and doesn't have a lot of miles on it.

Thrifty Bill mentions 'donor' bikes, when people ask how to go about upgrading their old bikes to more modern parts. Here is a perfact example of how to do it on the cheap.

rdjohannes

Wet, crumpled aluminum foil is my go-to rusty chrome solution. Sounds crazy, but just try it. Here is a place where "even a caveman can do it" really applies.

tugrul

Liberate those parts

wrk101

Well, I violated two of my rules this week: no hybrids and no mountain bikes. Both were pickups from my favorite thrift store, their pile of bikes is getting quite large (almost all POS), and that is keeping the prices low.

The first was a Schwinn Criss Cross. This will be my third Criss Cross, I like them for some unknown reason. The second was a Bianchi MTB. The price was right, worst comes to worse, it has some parts that I need. Both will probably just be added to the bike queue, to rehab sometime this winter.

Although really dirty, the paint on the Bianchi is really good, and it has decent components.




The paint on the Schwinn needs more TLC. We'll have to see how it turns out....






bill

mazdaspeed

What's going on with the derailleur on that crisscross?

wrk101

That year had a braze on hanger for the RD in the middle of the chain stay. Its the second one of that year I have had. Its really bizarre.

realestvin7

Wow.

fiataccompli

I'm surprised the hybrids don't get snatched up more often to build a poor man's cyclocross bike

Gravity Aided

Those Criss Crosses are nice bikes . Had a couple myself, and they would have been great for cyclocross .

DavidW56

I got this '91 CrissCross from my dad's SO for a very low price. She was cleaning out her garage and kindly undersold it to me. I intended to flip it, but to my surprise and delight, my younger son elected to leave his new 29er home and take the CrissCross to campus in Ann Arbor, where I believe its hybrid characteristics will serve him well. Although he did say the bike didn't do well in the snow and ice that arrived a couple days ago, and wished for his MTB again. Here are the photos. My C&V 1972 Suburban is in the background of the last two:

randyjawa 

Well, the Dump coughed up yet another gem, or at least a gem in the rough. How about an eighties something Marinoni with full Campy Super Record. Sadly, the bike is a 58cm, too big for me, and looking for a new home as I type...

Winter has fallen on Thunder Bay but I still have a few nice old road bicycles, and a couple of roadsters, recently found at the Dump, also. I will try to get some pictures today...





I forgot to mention that there was a spare set of Campy wheels sitting in the metal container, also, and they came home with me and the Marinoni...

realestvin7

Sad to see. I'll take this one off your hands.

Bikedued

Jeez, I sure would love to find something like that simply thrown away! It just goes to show though? The further time moves away from the known value of an object, the cheaper it can often be obtained. People who search hard enough can pick up the coolest things imaginable from individuals who only view the item as, "old junk that's in my way",,,,BD

Snydermann

Okay Randy, I know what you're doing. You're taking bikes out of your collection and posing them in dumpsters just to make us jealous, aren't you!

Who in their right mind throws something like that away without even checking if it might have some value first?

Thank goodness you were there to save it.

randyjawa 

I was, perhaps wrong about it being eighties. The rear derailleur says Pat 79, and looks to be original. Except for the frame set's cosmetics, the bike seems to be in sound mechanical condition. The components, for the most part, are very good. Yahoo!

I have just about got the frame stripped of components, after-which I will measure it up, for true, and then put it up for adoption.

Grim

Did you grab the trainer it was laying on? I have one just like it. works well.