thook

quintessential tourer with a few nice updates!! mafac cantilevers??

2flit

MAFAC; Yes with some rubber from Compass Cycles (Rene Herse now)

thook

thanks!
yeah, man... i bet those tires roll like butter.

polymorphself 

32mm? Great looking Expedition!

2flit

Barlow Pass 38mm on the rear and not sure but probably a 32 on the front, I lost and extrralight 32mm to a sidewall flat well outside of Rocky Mountain House and wound up with a Panaracer spare for the remainder.


... had two cars stop on the highway to offer help as I switched tires... one of them turned around; drove back, and offered me a ride back to RMH where she had come from! ...Canadians amazing

mstateglfr 

Those are some seriously traditional looking bags. How was it for 2 weeks?

2flit

Those bags are awesome, I've also used them on a 45 day tandem tour from Normandy to Budapest and also from Christchurch thru the Molesworth, Marlborough Sound to the Farwell Spit and back, and two tours in the Hawaiian Islands. The two week trip in the Canadian Rockies was about 50% rain and 10% snow and several folks on Mountain Bikes with more 'modern' bags had all their gear soaked while I somehow managed to just be damp around the edges. But if it never stops raining. (day after day after day).. it all eventually gets wet and doesn't dry...unless you sleep in it!
I like them allot because they act a bit like Gortex and in mixed sun and rain my gear breaths a bit and actually does a bit better than Hypalon or Vinyl. They don't do as well when things are flooding and you are ridding thru river bed.

cooperryder 

Great looking Expedition and glad you had a great tour on it.

Both in 2008 and 2009 I did one month long tours on a 1983 Expedition.

It performed wonderfully although I had no original parts on it.

I had it outfitted pretty nicely with
a 3 x 9 Shimano XT drive train with the outer bearing crankset, Shimano bar end shifters, TRP EuroX cantilevers, and Chris King headset.
That 22T granny combined with a 34T big cog cassette was the only way I made it up some of those mountain passes.

I had mine loaded up with around 65 to 70 pounds, way too much stuff.

I wish I had it back.

thorstein

Nice! I aspire to a trip like that & I want to visit Banff some day! Also, I'm a little envious of the Expedition!

Are you doing a solo trip‽

2flit

Are you doing a solo trip‽[/QUOTE]

Solo...
I was all set up with a fellow that I met on the "Crazy Guy On a Bike" website and he backed out at the last moment...So, I went solo on this one. Stayed at two "WarmShowers.org" homes and camped the rest of the trip until I got back down to RockyMountainHouse where I did an AirBnB.


SOLO

rossiny

Just picked this up! Looks pretty much original. Very little use. Needs to be gone through..

polymorphself 

Awesome, love the color on those and am a fan of the seat tube decals they used that year.

polymorphself 

Some recent rainy day pics posted in the Voyageur thread as well:

davester

When I looked at those photos I immediately thought that either the pivot pin was bent, or the alloy piece that it inserts into was bent since the pivots do not appear to be parallel to the main derailleur mounting bolts. That wide disparity between the cage and the large chainring is not normal.

davester

I love everything about that bike, and it's my size too. What was your address again?

OutnBack

Great looking Voyageur. What size tires are you running?

ehcoplex

I hope your Brooks is well 'treated'! (lovely ride!)

polymorphself 

Thank you. These are 35mm tires with 45mm fenders.

Haha it was only in the light rain long enough to snap these pics, then dried and covered. And thank you!

teamo2.cc

I need to change the fork of my bike. 1971 Model Peugeot PL8. Where can I find it ?

ehcoplex

While were at it- what are the platform pedals you've got there? Lyotard? MKS?

JohnDThompson 

The original fork will be metric thread. Unless you can source a replacement on the used market, a new replacement fork will be English thread. This is not necessarily a show-stopper, but using an English thread fork will mean replacing the headset with an English thread headset. Pick a fork with similar rake to the original, and a sufficiently long steer tube to fit your frame and headset, trim to fit.

JohnDThompson 

Those look like Sakae Ringyo SP-11:

teamo2.cc

Thank you.

polymorphself 

They are the original SR SP-11 that came on it and I really love these pedals. IMO the best looking of their kind and very comfortable.

EDIT: Whoops, looks like JohnDThompson beat me to it!

ehcoplex

The Lyotard 45CA pedals on the PX-10 I'm refurbing are waaaaaaaaay too narrow for me. I started out wanting to keep things French, but the Berthets are too $$$..... Alas, so are the SP-11s! MKS Urban Platforms are..... close.