Originally Posted by
TropicWind
Just want to get a quick sanity check on the following bike that I am picking up tonight. See if another set of eyes can verify authenticity and value. Seller has it listed at $300 with the following details (pictures are included in link below)
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- 3Rensho 1990's Road Bike
- Frame - Sakae (SR) Litage (Aluminum)
- Horizontal Top Tube
- Built with Shimano 600 components (includes Shimano 105 wheel hubs for front and rear)
- Saddle - San Marco Roles
- Purchased and built at original 3Rensho shop in Japan
Questions:
1. Does the frame look authentic?
2. Are there any glaring issues that I might not be seeing?
3. Any additional pictures/angles that would be worth requesting?
4. Rough cost for an age appropriate tire set?
5. Good value?
Thanks for all of your expert advice!
Hi,
I was looking at this frame last week and called the experts at Yellow Jersey and sent them pics, they said that they had never seen a 3R like that and that their best guess was that it was another maker...If you bought it and it is a 3R I missed out on it.
Here is my email correspondence.
Good Luck, Ben
There was a Bridgestone Radac of similar styling
https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/bridgestone-radac-5220
At any rate 3Rensho didn't build it.
No small workshop like 3R could ever afford tooling for a cold-process aluminum frame system.
It's from some large industrial entity.
What you have there may have been sold as a 3Rensho or it may well have had those graphics added later- people do that with Colnago and Cinelli graphics too.
-- Andrew Muzi