Well this is my first post here so I will post some background. I promise there is a bike to identify. Continue down if you don't wish to read. My girlfriend has recently got into road biking and is going to ride in Race to Erase MS. I have not been on a bike for a good 8 years and it was all mountain bike.

She ended up with a very nice racing bike and she is really getting into it. I remembered that my father had an old road bike that has been in his garage for as long as I can remember and I thought why don't I go get it so I can go ride with her sometimes.

I know this sport can get very expensive but I want[ed] to keep it low cost on my end, I am at the end of the day not looking to do it competitively. So I took the bike tires to the shop and had new tires and tubes put on. I took the bike out and we rode about 10 miles and a few days later 32 mi.

I noticed it made intermittent low toned clunking noise which I thought must be a bearing in the crank. I also noticed that it would make a loud click at times if I put a lot of force on the pedals. So I took the bike in and they said well this is a older bike and is very very very cool and was an exceptional bike in it's day it had a lot of proprietary parts and would be hard/expencive to fix or replace so it sort of is what it is.

They tightened the spokes and cables as well as trued the wheels for me and said that about all we can do about the noises without a possibility of spending lots of money upgrading the whole drive train.


This peeked my interest and got me searching, for which I found nothing. So I am here.

I could not find any numbers or markings on the frame except it says "Medusa" on the side. It has Cinelli 66-42 bars and Cinelli Stem, Modulo brakes and levers, M logo carbon fiber shifter levers, Suntour Cyclone M-II front derailleur, Hurret rear derailleur, Araya rims, Campagnolo front sprocket/crank/pedals. Everything else plainly visible is Campagnolo as well.

It is rumored to be a titanium frame but I am not sure, it is suprisingly light and does not weigh a whole deal more than my girlfriends smaller carbon lemonde but have not accurately weighed it. Other than that I have no idea what I have, what is good/bad, what I can do with it. The dust is sawdust from sitting in garage/woodshop. It is hard to get off because of grease so did not work with it much yet. Figure best would be to disas and do cleaning then...

















Thanks for the look! Talk soon.