Originally Posted by
wobblyoldgeezer
Just a thought, while I'm delaying posts of my new bike
I love it. ... I get up in the night to look at it. ... In most areas, I'm immune to the call of the new and fashionable - but bikes seem to have hit me different just now, after 17 years with a perfectly good one!
Anyone else?
Actually, my feelings toward classic lugged steel-framed bicycles are similar to yours toward your new acquisition. I splurged uncharacteristically on a professional paint job on one of them, the 1959 Capo, and four years later I still enjoy looking at it almost as much as riding it.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069