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Old 09-21-12 | 08:11 PM
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Bikes: Fixie conversion, a few 10 speeds, a trailer, I GT Transeo for utilitarian riding


New build, this was an old roomate's '79 Raleigh Super Record. It was in very rough shape when I got it. It had just its rear brake with a pair of extremely beat up steel 5 speed 27" wheels. The brake didn't work. It had friction stem shifters and a cheap square taper double crankset with a forged drive side.
I stripped it, i replaced the old unsealed bb and crankset with a shimano cartrige bb and mid 90's 105 road triple. It now has a 7 speed 700c rear wheel that probably came from an older hybrid. The front brake is from a late 60's/early 70's Schwinn Continental. Cinelli road bars with a ritchey threadless stem(used a quill to threadless adapter). Shimano 600 brake levers, 1960's Campy Record clamp on downtube shifters, and 700 x 28 Vittoria Randonneurs. I wish I had a picture of the bike before. She is a mut, but she runs like a dream, has a very wide gear range, and is much nicer than she was 34 years ago.
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