March is for brown and gold bikes
03-01-18, 08:09 AM
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March is for brown and gold bikes
Well, it's Mud Season, so that means brown, and gold can go along with that.
Show us your brown bikes, your gold bikes, and maybe even your brown and gold bikes.
This time I remember I have one. It's a 1973 Raleigh Twenty, unfinished for literally years. I rebuilt both wheels. The front has a Sturmey Archer drum brake hub whose inside are all scrape-y, so I have to smooth that out. The rear wheel has the original AW hub, and both have aluminum rims. I'm switching to a 1" threadless headset. To make it all fit, I need to shorten the head tube. The rear brake doesn't work well, but the front brake is good, a whole lot better than the unconscionably bad original front caliper brake.
Show us your brown bikes, your gold bikes, and maybe even your brown and gold bikes.
This time I remember I have one. It's a 1973 Raleigh Twenty, unfinished for literally years. I rebuilt both wheels. The front has a Sturmey Archer drum brake hub whose inside are all scrape-y, so I have to smooth that out. The rear wheel has the original AW hub, and both have aluminum rims. I'm switching to a 1" threadless headset. To make it all fit, I need to shorten the head tube. The rear brake doesn't work well, but the front brake is good, a whole lot better than the unconscionably bad original front caliper brake.
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03-01-18, 09:13 AM
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@Sir_Name, fixed or free?
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03-01-18, 09:17 AM
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1982 Trek 720
1982 Trek 720; some of the posters affectionately call this color "poo" brown:
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03-01-18, 09:40 AM
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@Sir_Name, fixed or free?
03-01-18, 09:46 AM
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My recently resurrected 1974 Motobecane Grand Touring fits the bill perfectly!
03-01-18, 11:13 AM
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Kinda brown and gold at the same time. 64 Moulton 4 Speed with upgrades.
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03-01-18, 11:49 AM
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Built up this Coffee brown 1969 Super Course as a town bike for a friend, before that it had been sitting in his basement for at least two decades as a neglected road bike.
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Super course beginning by Ryan Surface, on Flickr
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Super course finished by Ryan Surface, on Flickr
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Super course finished by Ryan Surface, on Flickr
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03-01-18, 12:35 PM
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Yay!
My favorite brown bike:
My favorite brown bike:
03-01-18, 12:40 PM
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More brown:
03-01-18, 01:14 PM
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Gold:
03-01-18, 02:18 PM
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A pair of Raleigh Sports
These are my only brown bikes, Raleighs from the 1970's.
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Raleigh built supercycles sold at Canadian Tire
Both these girls are small frame early 70's Raleighs with Sturmey-Archer AW hubs.
Different shades of gold. Hurry spring!
Different shades of gold. Hurry spring!
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Ross Aristocrat - More like Tan, but there is some Gold in there too:
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It's not classic and although it's a 1982 I wouldn't call it vintage either but it IS brown and gold........
Not the prettiest thing but it rides oh so sweet, better than it has any right to. It's getting another overhaul in the next week or so with vintage Suntour XCE drivetrain, a 3 pc. Sakae triple crankset and better Araya rims on Suntour hubs.
Not the prettiest thing but it rides oh so sweet, better than it has any right to. It's getting another overhaul in the next week or so with vintage Suntour XCE drivetrain, a 3 pc. Sakae triple crankset and better Araya rims on Suntour hubs.
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