Sorry for being dense, but I can't tell the difference. Perhaps I need more coffee...
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You're not dense at all, I am apparently. You do indeed have your cover, trick of the eyes I guess I couldn't see it in the first or second pics really. I still stand by really liking your bike though, so what inspired you to STI a 70's raleigh?

Woh, I just noticed that this thread has just passed 3000 posts and 120 pages!:eek:

BF member "suncake" can pick up his prize at any one of our convenient BF stores! oh, sorry, we don't have any stores...Oh, no prizes either? :(:o

Goes to show you the interest in upgrading our old steel bikes!:)

Phew, no worries. The first pic really looks like something's missing---my first thought when you pointed it out was that I must have broken without knowing it.

Well I got the bike as a frame, and I just finished a PX10 restoration, so I didn't feel compelled to restore the bike back to its original Campy racing parts. The International seemed closer to a touring geometry to me, so the original plan was bar-end shifters. However, I just sold my racy Lemond (w/ STI's) and was hoping the Raleigh could do double duty and replace both it and my full touring bike. I suppose I'm suffering from "n-1".

I'd really like to know where on God's green earth you found a Stronglight 99 32/45 crankset! I have a Peugeot on which I'd surely love to install one of those!

I bought it on CL as a half-step triple (32/45/50). The single 86 mm BCD spider allows it to be run as a single, double, or triple. I've used it for all 3. I love the flexibility (hah) of this design. While the newer 99's aren't as pretty as other SL's, having all ISO threading is nice. I'm using a Cyclone mkII FD.

Very nice EM's both of you! I love the color scheme of yours Bob...

BTW, what is the seat bag?

OK, well that's cheating! ;)

The threading is a total Godsend, IMO, just popped for a Stein puller. $50 for an obsolete puller!! I guess I better get into the Peugeot refurbishing business....

This seems like more of a "hot rod" thread, so I guess it's the perfect spot to show my 1987 Panasonic DX5000. There is a long, long story to this frame. I will try and give the short version:

A few years ago, I bartered some bicycle mechanic work for this frame and fork. Guy owed me about $60. As he starts to pull out his wallet, I say "Hey, what's going on with that frame and fork?" that was sitting in a corner of his basement. He says "You want that instead of the $60? Deal, but I'm keeping the Campy headset." According to him, the frame had been ridden semi-professionally in fixed gear mode by a female athlete friend of his and was now collecting dust in his basement.

From 10ft away, the paint looked good, but up close it was evident that there were bare pieces of metal showing. It had held up suprisingly well, though, with only a little bit of surface oxidation in some very small parts. In any case, I knew a re-paint would be in order if I wanted to keep the bike around. Which I did.

So I rode the frame around for a couple of years and loved it. Had it equipped with Campy Veloce during that time. Then, I had to move cross country and had absolutely no room to take it with me. I ended up making it ugly, real ugly (rattle canned it black), set it up as a singlespeed, and lent it to my younger brother to use in Toronto. I knew that where he lived that this bike would be gone in no time if I had left the original paint on there. Also, Toronto weather gets pretty bad and while he kpt it inside, I didn't want the frame to start developing any rust due to the bare metal that was already showing.

I just got it back about 5 years after I gave it to him. Stripped it down, painted it orange (same shade as the face on my Seiko Monster) and built her up with existing parts from my box. I wanted to go with a vintage/hot rod theme.

Parts build list:

Frame: 54cm Osaka-built Panasonic, Tange Prestige main tubes, Tange Champion 1 rear triangle, Panasonic dropouts
Fork: Panasonic, Tange Champion 1, Panasonic Dropouts
Headset: Nashbar 1" threaded, black (I also have a CK waiting to go on... but deciding if worth the trouble as I really like the Nashbar unit)
Stem: SR Sakae, tall rise, lightened with alloy locknut
Handlebars: 3TTT Prima
Brakes: Shimano 600/Ultegra tri-color, single-pivot (sexy)
Wheels: Mavic Ksyrium Elite
Cassette: 11-32 (because I hate triples and I am out of shape, okay?)
Shifters: Shimano 6500 Ultegra
FD: Shimano 600/Ultegra tri-color, double
RD: Shimano 5503/105, long cage
Seat post: Nashbar, 210mm, anodized, 27.2
Crankset: SR Aerox with 52/42 rings (for the vintage look, & super, super light... about 50g heavier than a Dura Ace 7700)
BB: A strange combination of a) NOS cups from a Shimano 600/Ultegra unit, b) a 118mm Sugino spindle, and c) Truvativ 8mm axle bolts

The pics were taken without clips/cages because it was right after I took her for a spin and was getting her dialed in. The chain is definitely 5-6 links too long.

The Evolution of the "All Day Bike."

This bike was built on a whim. I had a TA Cyclotouriste crankset and a 2nd generation Campy Rally derailleur that I wanted to put on a bike. I had never owned a road bike with a triple and I thought it would be an amusing project. Little did I realize I had the beginnings of a bike that I would ride more than any other! Several months ago a Motobecane Le Champion came my way. It had been turned into a fixie and I got it pretty cheap. It was a little beat up but not trashed, a good vintage frame to put a triple on. Most of the rest of the components I put on it were Campy Record bits I had sitting around. I didn't have any saddle for it except the Brooks B-17 that came on it when it was a fixie. I swore off leather saddles in 1972 when I sold my PX-10, but it was all I had so I slapped it back on.

My first ride on it, which included a 2-mile section of dirt and gravel pathway convinced me that this could be a nice road/trail bike. Some friends invited me on a long ride that included a lot of climbing and a 35 miles of dirt roads and trails. Most folks brought their mountain bikes: I decided to take the Le Champion. I put a set of Challenge Grifo tires on it and a pair of SPD pedals. I like SPD cleats because they are easy to walk on and I had heard this ride included a couple of river crossings and a couple of Hike-a-bike sections. The LeChampion was great! Solid, predictable, and plenty fast on the paved sections. I named it the "All Day Bike." Here's a picture from that trip.

http://obrentharris.smugmug.com/phot...bWKSnNB-XL.jpg

Much to my surprise the Brooks was a great all day saddle, but the shifting left something to be desired. The forty-year-old Campy Record front derailleur was never designed to shift a triple so I replaced it with a newer Campy Racing Triple. The Rally is a very cool looking early long-cage derailleur but doesn't shift nearly as smoothly as the Deore XT that I replaced it with. As you can see I was on the slippery slope to modern components. First the SPD pedals, then the newer derailleurs: What next?

Next was respacing the dropouts and a pair of Ultegra casette hubs with an 8-speed casette laced on to some Velo Orange "Raid" rims. The 8 speed casettte was a great improvement over the original 5-speed freewheel. Not only did I get smaller steps between the gears but I got a 12 tooth small cog to replace the 14 that I had before. With a 50-tooth big chainring the new high gear is nice!

Now we come to the reason I am rambling on like this in this thread: I remembered reading in an old "Cyclocross Magazine" that Campagnolo 10-speed shifters would work great with Shimano derailleurs and Shimano 8-speed casettes. No more reaching for the downtube shifters on loose rocky descents sounded like a good idea to me. Now Shimano shifters work great and feel great in the hands but I much prefer the looks of the Campy. (and the fact that they can be rebuilt)

"Why didn't I just go with Campy 10-speed all the way around?"
Remember the T.A. crankset? I love the looks of it. I think a 10-speed chain and those old chainrings will fight until the death of one or the other, so 8-speed it will stay.

I found a pair of 10-speed Chorus shifters on ebay and immediately had to get my feet wet in rebuilding them. But they now work great.

http://obrentharris.smugmug.com/phot...4WGNb9N-XL.jpg

So between my love for the esthetics of vintage bikes and vintage components and my desire for a bike that I can comfortably ride all day I have ended up with a bike that will probably baffle both the died-in-the-wool-and-leather vintage folks and the carbon-and-light crowd. Sometimes it's good to be an oddball!
Brent

Apt description. Ace.No confusion, just a great bike.

Aha! Yes.

Gonna have a new project soon, I hope. A nice-ish Sirrus of first year production vintage (Teal / Turqouis color). I want to keep the Biopace, though. It will probably go to live in WI, so ain't gotta worry about "hills".

So I may be interested in a line on 2x8 600 STI (sooo pretty). Settle for 105SC or RX100, of course.

Picked up this frameset in the lower east side a couple weeks ago..

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...sca25380b.jpeg

Originally planned to keep it as a FG/SS but ultimately decided i would have more fun riding it as a true road bike.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...psfac4da55.jpg

Threw on a full shimano 105 groupset, some ergos and a pair of Look pedals. Finally finished assembling her late last night, she is still a little out of tune, a couple minutes of tinkering today and I think everything will be right where it needs to be.


http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...pscf86887f.jpg

Sorry for the poor quality pictures.

Came out nice! :thumb: Thanks for not ruining a perfectly good road bike. :p

Yeah good job!

That's a great way to utilize spare parts. Nice build.

Yes, ALL spare parts. Thank you!

Updated my bike with C-Record cranks, Athena chainrings fit them perfectly:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7447/9...b2bda7a8_b.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...cordathena.jpg

Holy moley, but that thing is clean! You need to take it out and get it dirty - it's screaming for a 100 mile or so ride. :)

I took the components off my Olympia for cleaning & maintenance and since I have not ridden a roadbike for many months because of a back op decided to assemble my Basso frame instead for the shorter top tube while I ease myself back into cycling.
I got sick of seeing white tape on the Olympia and I'm tossing up between silver or chrome. The group will find it's way back to oly eventually.

93" Viper, Ti 9speed record, Dedacciai 18MCDV6 ultra light tubing, fillet brazed with lugged BB & fancy lugged rear dropouts.
http://imageshack.us/a/img819/2892/xpk4.png

http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps9d046c44.png

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Fantastic photos of that Basso! Great looking bike too, that blue color is amazing, and the gumwall tires are a perfect compliment.

Yup, that Basso is supernice.
What's the wheels?

Thanks for the nice words. The wheels are very non retro Mavic R-SYS.
Whenever I'm asked about them I feel I need to defend them. If you google them there's bad safety reports from years back but the issues were solved and there really awesome to ride.

I only asked cause I liked the wheels mate. Not hard to see they're non retro, but you can't be criticized for that in this thread can you..? ;)