fleslider 

Err he means a 1987.

MikesChevelle

Mavic wheels......black seat and stem............ 8 Spd Ergo's......... its like my bikes long lost brother

RobbieTunes

Twin Sons of Different Mothers. (A decent album, too.)
One bike means to get down the road, and hopes for support stops.
Face it, after 100 miles, the rider is ready to take a break.
Head down, hammer down.

The other can strike out on it's own, even after the apocalypse.
Any road, any time, all day, and the next, and the next.
Head up, bring on the day, and the next, and the next.

Pictures don't do a Miami Vice much justice, but when one rides by you, you notice.
Everyone notices.

Just me, but I'd swap the cages.
The eye follows the color, then gets interrupted by the contrast.
Sometimes, contrast looks better when it's planned and distinctly arranged.
Swapping the cages makes the yellow more linear, more grouped.
Just my opinion, but another take on the theme.

I've seen a lot of yellow/white, yellow/black, and Miami Vice Centurions.
Most owners have the cages in contrast like yours, so it's probably me.....

MikesChevelle

I need as much contrast as life affords me..................

texaspandj

I agree with R.T. however my fiance prefers the contrast in colors. (And what she says goes.Ha) But to each his own . I currently have a pink on the down tube and a white on the seat tube. So it's either get a yellow for st or white for dt umh........ I'm gonna go with white. Wish I could find an original avenir like the one I have. Laters.

RobbieTunes

He definitely did. Good eye, thanks for fixing me up.

texaspandj

Here's my girls IM, she named Big Red. Kinda like a big guy everyone calls Tiny. Don't be fooled by the white brake hoods. It's a 86 classic standard not expert. Except for the brake levers,saddle, stem,chain,and pedals it's pretty much stock. Including those shifters (haven't broke yet). At some point gonna put some brifters on with new white cables(that black RD cable bothers me),bar tape,stem and attempt to clean those hoods. I traded saddles with her but she didn't like it, so now gotta find another white saddle for my Miami vice. Oh, notice how dt and st match their respective cages (not contrasting) did that when I built the bike and she let it go. I win...... occasionally.

mountaindave 

Nice I concur on the black rd cable.

RobbieTunes

A bigger pic of texaspandj's Big Red, aka the Classic. Note the BioPace.



Very nice. I can send you a white RD cable housing if you'd like.

If you get a paint pen and paint the flutes and cradle on the seat post black, it'll connect with the stem.

markwesti

Nice Tex ! But maybe some 600 pedals & clips ?

fleslider 

No Problem, I knew it was a typo

texaspandj

Hey y'all. I've got something brewing and after this holiday weekend if all goes well I'll hopefully have some cool pics to post.
R.T. cool idea with the seat post. However she's still dialing in fit so beyond aesthetics we may change the stem. I have some white cable for that RD but thanks for the offer. But what I'll really need from you is advice and answers about pics I hope to be posting soon.
Markwesti, I have some 105 pedals and clips but currently my gf is in running mode. Once she starts putting in the miles on the bike I'll try to talk her into the toe clips and then she can graduate to the clipless pedals. Later

RobbieTunes

If I don't have the answer, someone here will. I'm just a long-time mistake-maker. I envy your stable.
If I had bikes I could do without, I'd sell 'em and go back into "the Ironman thing."

But the bike world is good: I went to a swap meet, and this young guy rolls in pulling a trailer. On the trailer is a table, and tires, and his stuff to sell. Under a layer of hip stickers is an '88 Ironman Expert, red-straight-fade-to-white. I mention it, and he says, "the Ironman is my favorite frame, it's got the pavement tamed for me, I've restored and fixed up about 20." Instant "you da man." Do some more talking, and I find out he runs the local co-op, which, everywhere I've been, is a thankless volunteer soul-sapper. He sells me some BL400 brake levers, and I notice the usual: beat-up DA7700 crankset, excellent 6500 crankset, and an FSA Hollowtech II that I should have bought. He looks the buyers over, sizes them up, charges what he think they can deal with, none of it too high. He tells me they are at "the corner" of making it as a co-op, instead of reeling from one crisis to the next.

He's smart, and he's perceptive, and he has a plan for the co-op. Surly's roll by, a lot of them, and he wishes those folks would buy old Trek 520's and 720's. All is right with the world. When it's time for me to leave, I take all my unsold stuff, none of it junk, and box it up, put it by his table, including a new set of nashbar road tires, a set of Vredestein's, a Park FR-5, some other Park wrenches, some new tubes of carbon paste, stuff that will either sell by the rest of the day, or find use at the co-op.

Ironman people are everywhere. Next time I'm there, I'm making a donation.

RobbieTunes

Sorry I neglected to comment on this. Cool. So much bike there. Rock it.

texaspandj

Cool story R.T. Makes you cooler. Very inspiring.

Unkle Rico

Updated my CIM

HED Alps
10sp Durace shifters

RobbieTunes

^^ That is bad - ass ^^

MikesChevelle

Dang it, now I need deep rims on my vice

RobbieTunes

billytwosheds 

Sorry I missed this. I think the one locally was going for $275, or maybe just over. It was worth every penny, but I wasn't in a spot to pick it up. I did post a link and request for info over in the 'what's it worth?' subforum and consensus was that it was under market price. Congrats on yours!

MikesChevelle

I should have said black too What wheels are those anyways?

RobbieTunes

Campy Vento HP's. Deep V polished. Came in 8-sp, and perhaps 9-sp in a Shamal (often in a tubular).
On a 'Vice, the fuscia decals really stood out, and if your other stuff was polished, oh boy.
I had mine built with these, but cannot find a picture of it. Instant conversation any organized ride.

MikesChevelle

Funny thing the only thing that is really black is my seat post and step everything else is polished for now working on the conversion to dark but those wheels do look damn good...hmmm

Unkle Rico

I feel that the color of the stickers on the wheels are what really ties them to the bike -- these wheels would look funny if there weren't any. I got the HED's for a steal because they are right at the end of their life, the hoops are almost toast and the wheels can't be perfectly trued anymore. I only really slightly notice it when doing heavy breaking so I really don't mind. Once they're done, i'll rebuild them

texaspandj

Hey y'all. Just purchased this through the bay and it is being shipped to me. So these are the photos they used.
I have an idea where I want to go with this i.e. white cables, saddle and bar tape. Also turning it into a triathlon race bike to complete a full ironman distance in 2016. So aero bars and eventually race wheels.
So now the questions: did all the IM come 126 rear spacing? What bb size does IM take and do they all take same size? More photos, questions,and comments to come. Later.