Thanks for the tip but I don't mind the black, especially if I use it with a black seatpost. Glad to know that stripper works, though, and will file it away for future reference.

which brand stripper did you use?

The old/good stuff or the new safe/sane stuff?

Paint stripper removes hard aluminum oxide AKA anodizing?
Do tell, I never heard that before!

BITD we had to use "the dangerous stuff" LYE.
or "the slightly safer stuff" Oven Cleaner
Unless you could cobble up a Frankenstein apparatus and hook up a car battery and bucket of water with an anode (or is that a cathode?) and watch the magic...with gloves, rubber boots and eye protection is ALL cases!

The good old stuff.
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Must have been painted. That stuff won't touch anodized.

travelinhobo came into the Rusty Spoke tonight! Always good to put a face with a user name.
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Drilling out a rim for schrader from a presta valve isn’t uncommon. I’ve done it myself.

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Taking a big chomp out of the rim with a grinder, on the other hand, isn’t.

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A Pelizzoli ladies and gents

locked outside of the co-op last week. So kinda “spotted in the wild” too.

This is a very inspiring build. I’ve been wanting to do a chrome/“brushed” road bike for a little while. It’s not flashy but it is elegant. literally everything is tasteful.
the drive train is what was the most impressive. A topline crankset with a single chainring, a VERY wide range 6 speed cassette, and a Nuovo record rear derailleur.

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that's one very peculiar Pelizzoli!
NO braze-ons except for the (single) pair of WB bosses? I wonder if there was some visit from Drew involved?
Looks like the adjuster screw on the DS DO has gone away so this NR RD uses one of the oldskool "plates" to locate it.
Strange choice with that 'vintage' stem, but whatever ya gots, I guess...but is that some ALU alloy fork?

Last detail is this appears to be a Cinelli "can opener" type BB shell, which might place it in the timeframe before Cinelli started offering the replacement IC cast version in which the chainstay sockets got "rotated" 90 degrees

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from the Cinelli catalog: CCM above with socket tangs at the sides, SCM below where the tangs are North-South

Sr. Pelizzoli started building under his own name way back in 1967, so lots of opportunity for, um, unusual parts combinations.

1962 AW hub from BikeTopia in Berkeley:
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Weirdo leatherette handlebar(?) bag from the box-o-free-crap at Scenic Routes SF. (Non-profit community boke shop, so it counts)
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Both are intended (ha!) for my Hercules Kestrel project.

--Shannon

This popped up at Freecycles recently. Quite elegant in its simplicity. I remembered this post and snapped some photos.

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This is how waterside does it. The one above is certainly cooler.

Looks pretty genius to me, good way to wrangle so many of them. ;)

Similar setups are used to dry...

Flowers...

--Shannon

My co-op (Bikes Together in Denver) posted today that the total number of used parts sold in 2025 was 7481. That’s a bunch of used parts!

Early 1980s Trek 620 62cm
 

This bike just came into Bike Saviours in Tempe, Arizona. Looks like just about all original--bearings are dry but otherwise in nice shape. Price will likely be very reasonable for local sale. They are not too interested in shipping.

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Dropped by today and spotted this little R300 Cannondale with its 650 wheels. There was one like it months ago that vanished so it obviously did not leave or they got another.
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And in the pedals bin I found a pair of Campy pedals with the little toe flips. Never was a Campy guy for but eight bucks I can afford to start accumulating this stuff.
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$8 for Campy pedals with clips. The current state of the used bike & parts market in one sentence.