Austro-Daimler SLE
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Austro-Daimler SLE
When it rains, it pours....
In exchange for work done (and work yet to be done!) on a friend's bike, I was given a mostly complete Austro-Daimler SLE frameset. Tubing looks to be all 531, with Weinmann sidepull calipers featuring cool little adjustment knobs. The stem is marked "GB", and the bars have a cyclist logo on the left side and a globe on the right. Shifters and derailluers are Huret, crank is Stronglight, and the top tube cable clamps are marked with a "S" in a what looks like a starburst.
This looks pretty close in color/trim, but the crank is different:
https://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Cat...ler/82/SLE.jpg
I was going to build this out for myself until the Italian frame I posted about elsewhere came to my attention. Now, I'm not sure what to do with it, but it'll probably get built out as a 6 speed and sold off to finance the Italian (should I acquire it).
A few pics:
In exchange for work done (and work yet to be done!) on a friend's bike, I was given a mostly complete Austro-Daimler SLE frameset. Tubing looks to be all 531, with Weinmann sidepull calipers featuring cool little adjustment knobs. The stem is marked "GB", and the bars have a cyclist logo on the left side and a globe on the right. Shifters and derailluers are Huret, crank is Stronglight, and the top tube cable clamps are marked with a "S" in a what looks like a starburst.
This looks pretty close in color/trim, but the crank is different:
https://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Cat...ler/82/SLE.jpg
I was going to build this out for myself until the Italian frame I posted about elsewhere came to my attention. Now, I'm not sure what to do with it, but it'll probably get built out as a 6 speed and sold off to finance the Italian (should I acquire it).
A few pics:
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The SLD is in more capable hands now. Uh, I'll trade you those rear dropout micro adjusters for the ones on the Paramount.
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All right you two, why was this not a red mixte?
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Hey Bigbossman,
The first real bike I ever bought was that exact AD model in 1977. I remember it as a wonderful bike.
It now sits in my brother's garage. I sometimes feel like taking it back and making it roadworthy, but I don't know exactly why. I've got too many bikes already.
The first real bike I ever bought was that exact AD model in 1977. I remember it as a wonderful bike.
It now sits in my brother's garage. I sometimes feel like taking it back and making it roadworthy, but I don't know exactly why. I've got too many bikes already.
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the clamps are simplex. AND TWO CANS of WD40!!!! man you suuuu suuuu suck!!!
I think those globes mean universal, but I could be way off on that.
AD's rule!!
I think those globes mean universal, but I could be way off on that.
AD's rule!!
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Originally Posted by bigbossman
I was going to build this out for myself until the Italian frame I posted about elsewhere came to my attention.
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Originally Posted by East Hill
All right you two, why was this not a red mixte?
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Originally Posted by BlankCrows
I found another one of those (a Taiwan-made Motobecane job), but it's too big for you East Hill. I didn't have the nerve to send you pictures of another unridable one.
I love the handlebars with the cyclist on them.
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Originally Posted by East Hill
I love the handlebars with the cyclist on them.
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Me, too. I'm thinking of moving them over to the Italian Job, if they polish out nice. Then again, I have a nice Cinelli/3ttt bar/stem combo not doing anything.....
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Originally Posted by bigbossman
When it rains, it pours....
In exchange for work done (and work yet to be done!) on a friend's bike, I was given a mostly complete Austro-Daimler SLE frameset. Tubing looks to be all 531, with Weinmann sidepull calipers featuring cool little adjustment knobs. The stem is marked "GB", and the bars have a cyclist logo on the left side and a globe on the right. Shifters and derailluers are Huret, crank is Stronglight, and the top tube cable clamps are marked with a "S" in a what looks like a starburst.
This looks pretty close in color/trim, but the crank is different:
https://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Cat...ler/82/SLE.jpg
I was going to build this out for myself until the Italian frame I posted about elsewhere came to my attention. Now, I'm not sure what to do with it, but it'll probably get built out as a 6 speed and sold off to finance the Italian (should I acquire it).
A few pics:
In exchange for work done (and work yet to be done!) on a friend's bike, I was given a mostly complete Austro-Daimler SLE frameset. Tubing looks to be all 531, with Weinmann sidepull calipers featuring cool little adjustment knobs. The stem is marked "GB", and the bars have a cyclist logo on the left side and a globe on the right. Shifters and derailluers are Huret, crank is Stronglight, and the top tube cable clamps are marked with a "S" in a what looks like a starburst.
This looks pretty close in color/trim, but the crank is different:
https://www.bulgier.net/pics/bike/Cat...ler/82/SLE.jpg
I was going to build this out for myself until the Italian frame I posted about elsewhere came to my attention. Now, I'm not sure what to do with it, but it'll probably get built out as a 6 speed and sold off to finance the Italian (should I acquire it).
A few pics:
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The crank in the brochure picture is a Nervar Star; I suspect Steyr-Daimler-Puch varied cranks from model to model or from year to year, according to price and availability.
It looks like a great bike to me, but then I have a thing for Austrian bikes.
It looks like a great bike to me, but then I have a thing for Austrian bikes.
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this one must be a later model, the cable guides are braze ons.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/4320139...7594368389897/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/4320139...7594368389897/