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Yamaguchi destiny

Old 02-24-05, 12:01 PM
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A customer picked this up in a pawn shop he works for, it was to big so he kept everything but the frame and one of our guys swapped for a lugged Trek we had set up for fixed. The frame was to big for this guy so he hung it up where I could walk past every day. Finally the stars aligned, he needed money, I had money, the frame is my size, an exchange was made.
SHe has a few flaws, there is a handlebar ding in the top tube, a small crack propagating at the seat clamp slot (It was not keyholed to prevent this for some reason) and various nicks and scratches including a surprising amount of tubular glue on the seat tube. The seat tube is a 56 and the top tube is 58, a touch long but so what. I am going to keyhole the seat post slot and braze up the crack, and place bumper over the dent.
The wheels in the shot are my first fixed wheels so I need to respace the rear for 120, redish and space for good chainline and I am replacing the QR axle with a solid one and track nuts. They are tubulars so I need to pick up some fresh rubber, Sprinters probably. I may end up changing the rear, it is a D/A freewheel hub, I am going to loctite the crap out of the cog and lock ring but it makes me a little nervous having no brake.
The cranks are Campy Stradas and it has a track BB so I am going to remove the ledges for the inner chain ring to get some clearance. BCD is 144 and I have a 42 for it so that is probably what I will run, with a 16 in the back. Don't know about pedals, probably Look.
It has a busted 105 headset right now, I am going to ditch it for a Campy one and a cinelli stem. Don't know about handlebars yet, either a track bar or an inverted, cut, drop bar. I think I have a Campy seatpost lined up and that leaves just the saddle, maybe a Brooks, but there is some paidfor for stuff laying around to look through first.
No brakes as there is no where to put them.
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Old 02-24-05, 12:04 PM
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you're a lucky man reverend, congratulations!
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Awesome find REV!

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Nice. How much did you get it for?
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lucky for you. don't you love the fillet brazed joints?
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hot damn.
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how could someone pawn that?

p.s. - if you've ever got any track bikes to unload and want to keep them in state, i'll gladly make the trip out to raleigh.
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Originally Posted by Jesse M
how could someone pawn that?
Probably stolen at one time.
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The pawn shop has a good rep, and their story was the pawners(they call them clients) girlfreind got him the bike in NYC and brought it up here to him. But it was way to big. She(The bike not the girlfreind) appears to have been around, way around. The parts that were on it were seriously beat. It had the oldest set of tubulars that still held air I have ever seen. They only took about two days of riding before failing on our customer, he was running the wheels on the Trek we got him.

This kind of stuff is around, the hard part is finding someone that has it and does not want a load of cash for it. Like I was looking for a fixable frame for my wife, and found a Bob Jackson road frame and fork, in 46. No parts and scratched up from twenty yeaars of riding, $675, I can almost get an IF made for that. So she is still waiting
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