1983 Ricardo Varsity 1020 steel beast.
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And my favorite of three configurations I use it in.
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https://s950.photobucket.com/albums/a...rdo%20Varsity/

awesome colorway, i love how you've filled the dura-ace engravings with a paint pen, which type of paint pen are you using? and how do you do it, do you just fill it in, then run a cloth over the surface to wipe off the excess?

This is my first Italian Road Bike. It rides super smooth!

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After:

I ran out of white paint and was too lazy to go to the store for more white paint, so I figured why not!

Beautiful Bertoni! I have that frame (I believe its' the same one) in Pink (uh...er..."rose") on a Professionale that's a retro-modern build. Enjoy the ride.

Peugeot 1964 PX50

Before



After



The work that i did to the bike includes.

Clean bearings and new grease in the headset ,bottom bracket and pedals.
Slightly longer stem.
Better brake levers.
New Simplex single gear lever.
Front simplex competition hand rod derailleur.
Different tyres.
Remove excess equipment , rear rack and lights.

I like this bike as it is in good condition and rides great and has enough patina to show it's age.

1979 Schwinn Le Tour

Before: pictures from craigslist link when I purchased. No hardware whatsoever and the fork and stem were essentially so rusted, the rust formed as a welding material! Lots of work!












After:
New bottom bracket, brake/shifting cables, hoods, cups, bottle bracket, chain, seat clamp, tires/tubes, specialized white cork tape, and then shifters, fork, brake hardware, stem from used bike; removed most rust. Looking to get White saddle and new pedals w/ straps soon

[QUOTE=slow_cycler;12785407]1979 Schwinn Le Tour

That looks like the American equivalent to my Aussie Ricardo. I bet it rides really nice just dont go hill climbing all day. "weight"

"After" After V2.0



now with a wald rear rack, H2O bottle cage and fenders (take-offs from a Redline Mero 9 I picked up from the LBS for cheap-cheap) I also added toe clips and straps from my junk pile, and moved the h-bar bag to the saddle to make room for a headlight (soon to be added)


1977 Gitane Olympic Record II by (cobrabyte), on Flickr

This is going to be my rainy day/commuter bike during the summer (when we get most of our rain here in FL)

1984 Colnago Sport



Before came with cheap Modolo brakes and levers, Gipiemme FD, Suntour ARX II RD, and mostly Gipiemme everything else, plus Suzue hubs laced to Araya rims 700c.



After upgraded mechs to Shimano 600 tricolor (6401 matching pair), 7 speed sunrace FW, Shimano 105 dual pivot brakes, Tektro aero levers, 105 7spd DT shifters, and with a Brooks B17


1983 Raleigh Condor



Before near full 105 Golden Arrow, with Sakae bars, stem, seatpost, pedals, and clips. Sunshine hubs laced to Araya rims 27"



After. Just replaced the BB with a cartridge, cables and housing, tape, and chain. Saddle needs to be swapped out still.



Few more in the queue to be worked on...

This is my first road bike ever and the first time I have stripped and "restored" any bicycle; Also, my first post after having lurked for a few weeks getting tips on the project

Bike is a 1983 Fuji Supreme

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After:

Welcome to the C&V, FractalSight. That looks like a huge frame(27")?

I think the before shot looks much more appealing than the green machine. Just my .02

This started out as just a crusty red Schwinn World Sport frame. The original fork was bent and cracked. Canti mounts and dt shifter bosses were brazed on and a fork from 80's Falcon added. I had most of these parts laying around so it'll be my commuter bike for when I start commuting to school in the fall almost 40 miles round trip. I'll changed the tubulars to clinchers and that'll be about it. It's my path racer commuter build. Dig the Coach sunglasses saddle case! The fenders and rear rack I picked up for $5 this morning at a rummage and now just to find some fender struts to mount them...without the use of zipties and some reverse brake levers and she's done. I rode it around for alittle bit and it feels actually really good with the track bars. Woo hoo!



Campy Record LF hubs
Campy GS Crankset
Campy NR headset
Campy GS Front derailleur
Shimano Tourney Rear derailleur
Eighth Inch track bars
Pivo stem
Repop BSA Golden Deluxe decal set
NOS Suntour Superbe Pro shifters

Sorry no before pictures but just imagine a red rusty severely rashed paint and decals World Sport frame and that was it.

Hi Roger,

It is indeed a 27" frame which fits me very well at 6'3". I debated with myself very hard about the repaint but the amount of fairly large scratches in the original paint which had begun to show rust and the damage to the original decals (not shown in my before picture) made up my mind on the repaint. The color choice simply reflects what I had available , I can tell you that it is a much deeper green in person (which I find quite attractive) as the lighting in the particular picture washed out the color a bit.

Thanks for welcoming me to the C&V!

I've had this one for a few weeks now so here are the before & after pics. 1972 Bertin C34............

That looks fantastic CC!

That is one cool cobbled up pathracer Henry III!

I finally have got my Centurion Elite RS together enough to ride but still have a few parts to add but I am going to wait till it gets cold out to do it. So far the only thing that I don't have for it yet that is in the 600ex gruppo is a 27.0 seat post everything else is either on the bike or waiting to be put on like the stem, brakes, bronze 600ex levers, headset & I picked up the same wheels with 600ex hubs. I also wanted to say that with out the help of many members on here I don't think I would have been this far into the build so for the guys that helped me with my parts search Thank you.
My pics aren't the best as I wasn't in picture taking mode when I started firing away around the shop yesterday, I spent the last 3 days building and working on nothing but bikes and have a few before & after threads I can start.

Before as found.


After

Redid this Puch Alpina for my mom this spring. I need to remember to take better before shots. Not nearly as extensive a rehab as many of the above, but in I was pretty tickled with how it turned out. https://www.flickr.com/photos/6133923...th/5878703764/

very dirty Miele, but too big!!




After:

Wow!, Great job!. That bike looks almost unused. Where's it been?

How did she like it? Does she like the seat?

A word of caution - the stem looks to be raised too high out of the steering tube. I had one break off in my hands once because it was too high. This happened while riding in traffic. <-- bad juju, that.

Either lower it down or get your mom an especially made tall stem. I think VO and others have them.

Just curious, what quill stem is this?

Thanks for the word of caution. That could have gone really south! I went back and looked at the photo to see what you meant; I think that's just a funny cameral angle illusion. I had it set level with the saddle (still highish, yes, but not nearly as high as it looks). I had to take it apart to ship it to her in Maryland, and she had some LBS guys put it back together, so I'm sure it's fine. I think it was basement stored most of its life. The only cosmetic work it needed was shining up the chrome (pinpoint rust) and I had to paint in some missing lettering in a few decals. I'll be interested in her response to the saddle, too. I've never ridden a VO before. Still waiting for a review of it that's longer than tooling around the neighborhood. She's supposed to do a 40 m covered bridge tour in the next few weeks, so I'll know more then.

before (bike did have wheels, jst not in pic)








after

miyata 914 officially saved!~