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Miyata 650b sport tourer/townie 52cm

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restored Trek 650b conversion

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DANCELLI road bike (Colnago made)

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De Bernardi 56cm track bike

CTS-V not included, presumably:
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Nishiki Pro 12 Speed Road Bike Phil Wood Hubs Suntour Cinelli 3TTT

[h=2]Trek Elance 300 - $30 (crystal, MN)[/h]vetta trek 300 bicycle

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vetta bicycle*-call jerry for more details-thanks!

*the model name of the bike is always on the saddle, right?

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Check out the top tube! Wild! Unique. Or maybe someone will say it looks damaged, whatever, I have never seen this in a bike.

Older Merlin road bike

I'm going to regret letting you vultures know about this one. I want it really badly, but I just don't have the cash to blow on a ti bike this old in case the frame poops out after a few rides.

[h=2]Older Merlin road bike - $750 [/h]Merlin titanium Road bike
56 cm (I'm 5'10")
Full Campy Record gruppo
8 speed ErgoPower
Bought new in '93
Lots of miles left on this bike
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lot of NOS rims

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That's a beauty.

I wouldn't worry about the frameset giving up the ghost.

Bridgestone RB-1 road racing bike - $400

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+1 If that were my size, I'd buy it. That's an excellent value. The Merlins are supposed to be fantastic riders. I've heard of a handful of Ti frames pooping out -- mainly through fatigue from A LOT of riding. How could you not ride them a lot, though? They are sooo nice.

1976 Tigra Titan 6 79kg Comepre Coassin Campagnolo ft Clement Seta Vintage Race | eBay


Not aware if this is a deal or not, but the drillium on this thing is amazing.

RB-1 is one of those that will be on my rack some day. This one has potential but those bars would have to go.

+1...buy it, ride it and don't worry about it. These were first rate bikes.

Of all the bikes I own, the Merlin would be among the last I sold. I dare say it's the best production roadie I've had. I could not think more of Merlin.

I was wondering which bike to take out today...this decided it!

Can you explain? (E.g., how exactly do they fail, and is the failure gradual or sudden?) I'm constantly tempted by Ti bikes but don't have any experience with one, so this comment piques my interest for sure.

For what it's worth, I thought (perhaps mistakenly) that Ti was supposed to be bulletproof, or close to.

Also curious about this (in particular, how it compares to a good steel bike).

TIA.

I'm gonna jump in here too...

First, any frame that is poorly made, or where there's an error, can have issues. Ti is trickier to work with as I understand it because you can't have oxygen pollute the weld. Sometimes you'll hear of that happening with a ti bike, nut it's the exception. If the bike has lasted this long while ridden, it's FINE. There were a few rumors about some Merlins cracking near the bottle bosses, mostly you heard that about the post cambridge Merlins. This merlin is cambridge, at the height of their mastery. Imwouldn't hesistate to ride any merlin any more than Id hesitate with any steel frame.

The glue job tI is another matter...like Miyata...and I wouldn't go near it.

What's great about Ti is its strength to weight ratio and its immunity to corrosion. No paint needed. No scratched paint anymore. The merlins have beautiful puddle welds.

Ride characteristic has to do with tubing diameter more than material...Merlins are often paired with cf forks (likely original aluminum fork), and the combo of a cf fork and that tubing really works for me. Tubing diameter is not as OS as some modern steel, but thicker than your standard 531. I think merlin gets it just right, and you'll find most merlin owners here agree.

You can't lump ti bikes together anymore than you can steel...it's the builder. Merlins were designed by tom kellogg and built up by very good builders. I am not going to make blanket statements about all ti...but Merlin is as nice a bike as you're liable to find.

Price is highly ambitious, but it's a cool bike:

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Lugged Columbus Thron steel cross frameset with original 1" threaded fork- very good condition and only light use. Made in Italy.
Includes Shimano 600 headset and Dura Ace bottom bracket. Additional components available for extra.
Seat tube: 51.5cm c-c
Top tube: 53cm c-c
Rear spacing: 132.5mm
Horizontal dropouts: Campagnolo (geared or single speed).
Fender eyelets: no

That is a very cool looking bike, but I would have thought that bike should have drillium derailleurs? However even though I have heard of that brand I know nothing about that particular model, the price seems high but it probably is rare since in my 40 plus years of riding I have never seen one, so it might be worth the price. I think I would rather have that then a Colnago for the price, but that's just me, especially if it had drillium Campy derailleurs.

Fascinating bike but I'll bet quite daring to ride. I forget who, but someone had posted pics of Tigra at the NYC bike show, mid- late 1970's. Also in that group of photo's was another Euro make, glued carbon tube and lugged.

I can't speak to Merlin in particular, but I have a Lightspeed of similar vintage, and it's exceptional. I have 3 steel Italian road bikes, and they are all wonderful, but the Lightspeed has really stiff transfer from the bb to the rear wheel.

As for failure, there was a fellow a month or two ago on The Paceline who had a Lynskey frame fail from fatigue. Apparently, there was a nick in the weld or thereabouts, and it grew over 10's of thousands of miles. It broke clean one day, and Lynskey wouldn't provide a new frame, arguing that it was beyond it's lifetime.

@KonAaron Snake, @TimmyT, thanks for the replies -- sounds like cases of failure are fairly isolated in example. Stiff power transfer would be welcome. My Columbus SLX bike, sweet as it rides, gets pretty flexy when really applying the torque! (And I'm hardly breaking any wattage records...)

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Picked up the Opus from a few pages back. Thanks to everyone that posts here everyday, wouldn't have had a clue it was available otherwise. No idea if '83 or '84. Serial is F306 but that doesn't seem to correspond to any dating I can find online. Really looking forward to building this up, any recommendations on wheels?

Is that the "death fork".

I purchased this Colnago a few minutes ago. A local friend facilitated the purchase, and it's in his possession. He says its really nice, ready to ride and with excellent paint, except a few small chips.

Thanks for posting! this is my third remote Craigslist purchase found here in the last 18 months.

Excellent! It looks like a nice example; enjoy it.

Because there isn't enough drillium on that bike? LOL! It's early TIG'd titanium. It's worth more than most Colnagos, but, alas, it's really a wall hanger.

So glad it went to someone here. You know we all expect lots of pictures. right?

Original Twenty folder. Pump, platform pedals

Bicycle Raleigh "reduced"

$100
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