Originally Posted by
TrojanHorse
I will say that the last time I bought a complete bike from a store was 1992 so I'm right there with you on the aspect of making it yourself. I have to say I was momentarily shocked by your post. 40 years old bike from the 70s? No way! Aw crap. That's roughly what went through my head.
Way! You've got to remember that I'm old enough so that those bike-boom 10-speeds were the "new" style bikes that came along in my 20s. I grew up on the old 3-speed "English Racers" (I had a Rudge and a Bianchi from the early 1960s), and most of my friends had things like Schwinn or Ross cruisers that were built like (and weighed like) Mack Trucks. So this frame is like an old friend to me.
There were a lot of good things about those old bikes. One of the best things about them was that the frame geometry was more like what we'd expect in a touring bike today, which is a lot less fatiguing to ride than the more racing inspired stuff we mostly see nowadays.