Puch Marco Polo
03-25-17 | 06:45 PM
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Puch Marco Polo
Snagged what I think is a 77 Puch Marco Polo built up with a disgusting array of parts including "northroads" style bars made by crimping and bending a steel flat bar backwards...
Got the bike along with a 93 Allez Pro, both in need of help. Question being, what should I do with the Puch? It looks like it may need damn well everything short of the cranks and shifters replaced, but it's a quality frame and pretty clean
Got the bike along with a 93 Allez Pro, both in need of help. Question being, what should I do with the Puch? It looks like it may need damn well everything short of the cranks and shifters replaced, but it's a quality frame and pretty clean
03-26-17 | 08:19 PM
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Here's a few shots of the bike I asked my roommate to take for me. In as purchased condition. GT rear mech, Spirit front, weinmann stoppers currently pulled by 90s shimano mountain bike levers that were at one time integrated with trigger shifters but hacked off
03-26-17 | 08:35 PM
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Not too sure what I should do with it though... The frame looks to be in pretty solid shape, no huge chips or dents and no rust. But just about all the parts on it seem ill suited to the quality of the frame.
03-26-17 | 09:23 PM
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Not entirely sure to be honest, I'm at school and don't have any tools with me, tape measure included, so I haven't measured it. At $35 each, I just had to grab them. I typically ride a 58, though could go less if I stuck with a city bike set up like it has, though much less janky.
03-27-17 | 01:43 PM
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Not entirely sure to be honest, I'm at school and don't have any tools with me, tape measure included, so I haven't measured it. At $35 each, I just had to grab them. I typically ride a 58, though could go less if I stuck with a city bike set up like it has, though much less janky.
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03-27-17 | 02:08 PM
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Agreed, but it's not currently able to be ridden. Standover seems reasonably close though. I'm oddly proportioned unfortunately and do need to ride before I can tell if a bikes for me. A lot more torso than legs
03-27-17 | 02:46 PM
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I don't think that Puch would stand up to the rigors of being ridden in the pool. The Nishiki Submariner was similarly mis-marketed. 
Seriously though - try them out for size. For $35.00, I would have snagged them for flipping, but one of them might turn out to be a nice campus rider.
Seriously though - try them out for size. For $35.00, I would have snagged them for flipping, but one of them might turn out to be a nice campus rider.
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03-27-17 | 02:54 PM
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I don't think that Puch would stand up to the rigors of being ridden in the pool. The Nishiki Submariner was similarly mis-marketed.
Seriously though - try them out for size. For $35.00, I would have snagged them for flipping, but one of them might turn out to be a nice campus rider.
Seriously though - try them out for size. For $35.00, I would have snagged them for flipping, but one of them might turn out to be a nice campus rider.
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