I'll take the Ti plz.

These are both comfy saddles. Once again, super generous of you!

Claimed and shipped (if you guessed the seat post was frozen on the donor bike, you were correct)
I couldn't let these be scrapped. Early Phil Wood hubs with steel center and aluminum flanges. 36h. 100/120mm spacing. Look rough, spin freely.

Wow... They've seen some winters...

I would take these. I think I could clean them up well enough for plenty more service.

Cleaning day at the co-op and a few items for cost of shipping :

Minura truing stand.

Rollers set #1

Rollers set #2
Same rules as always first to PM is first in line. Smiles, MH

Pm inbound for the stand.

Looks like the stand is gone waiting on the rollers, Smiles, MH

Saved from the recycling. I've no need but youse all may want them. Free but you pay shipping from 19525 (probably USPS small priority mail box)

Modolo brake levers. Pretty nice and clean but the logo rubbed off a bit on one. Taken. Going to a good home.





Rider quality stem. 22.0 mm

Happy to pay shipping of you still have the Modolo levers. Let me know. Thanks, Mike

Mavic brake pads. Exalith for sram. 4 pads, enough for one bike. Claimed.

This is not quite in the original spirit of this thread, as I am here to request a pair of tires for my student. He's 22 years old and doesn't have a lot of money. I've been riding with him on weekends on the bike we built together. We put it together from two bikes that had been left on the roadside.

I'd like to find 26" MTB tires suitable for road riding, i.e. with little or no knobs. I'm concerned that he's working harder than he needs to in order to keep the bike rolling. When we coast downhill, it seems like he's applying the brakes when he's not.

If anyone can donate, I'll certainly pay shipping. Thanks.

Tom, I've got a stack of tires in my back patio waiting for me to get around to driving a long way off to donate, lemme check what I've got. If nothing else, I know I've got a pair of Nashbar slick city 26" (totally bald!!) on a beater bike that I could probably swap out. Hopefully I can post some pics tonight, but likely I won't be able to get to the post office today or tomorrow, and I have to hop on a plane Wed.

Tom - I scanned Amazon and 2-packs of Kendas could be found for less than $40, shipped with Prime. Shipping wire bead tires could get spendy even if the tires are free from a member. (No disrespect to RubeRad)

I saw a trick once here on BF that if you twist carefully you can make wire bead real small

But yeah, cheap tires are cheap, you may well be able to get your friend new tires for what you're willing to spend on him

Good suggestions. Thanks.

This isn't quite a pay-it-forward subject, but rather semi-pay-it-forward. I posted this in other threads today too.

Taking a stab at something, hoping to get some good suggestions.

I haven't been reading BF much for a few years, haven't been wrenching much lately, no time. Riding indoors but rarely outside. When I finally retire I should have more time for both riding and wrenching. That being said...

I need to downsize my bike collection. A few years ago I gave away a few bikes but it was like pulling teeth just to get interested parties to answer email let alone make a scheduled rendezvous. Most of these bikes are special, though not showroom condition visually; they have been ridden, have history. Plus I have enough of my own, um, personality invested in them, not to mention reasonably valuable vintage parts, that I don't want to donate them just to have them dismantled by disinterested parties. Truth be told too, the frames and components are valuable enough that I'd like to get at least a bit of remuneration for them. And finally, I really don't want to have to pack them up and ship them somewhere, which means I'd prefer to hand them over to someone locally, reasonably close to Boston.

So who in BF these days would be interested in C&V steel bikes? Who should I contact?

FWIW, three candidates are a Grandis, Tommasini Racer, Gazelle Champion Mondial.

Out of curiosity, what are the rough sizes for them. That might get more responses here. I know that there are likely a ton of folks in the general vicinity.

Why not advertise them in the For Sale section? It sounds like you’re more interested in clearing space than getting top dollar, and that would be a way to get a decent audience of reliable and respectful buyers. I bet it wouldn’t be hard to find them homes.

Good point. I am sort of medium, FWIW. I figured I could send these kinds of detail to anyone who might be interested. Except for my UO-8 which I bought new back in '72, the rest were built up by me from bare frames.

I measured a few just now.
The Bianchi Brava seat tube is 59cm C-T, head tube 57cm C-C.
The Grandis seat tube is 56 C-T, head tube 55 C-C.
The PF-10 seat tube is 58 C-T.
IIRC, the UO-8 seat tube is 24 in.
So they vary a bit but are all sort of medium.

All have decent or very good components such as Suntour Cyclone GT Mk1 or VGT-Lux RD's, the sort that might have been original or a contemporary upgrade. All have DT shifters, mostly custom 2x6, 1/1/2-step gears with emphasis on climbing New England hills rather than mashing hard at high speed. One is indexing 7-speed (IIRC). One or two have 165mm cranks, IIRC, generally 110BCD from Sugino or fancier cranks from Velo-Orange or similar. The Gazelle is made with 531-C tubing, and it an easy bike to ride hard for a long distance. The Italians are Columbus though I'd have to look at their stickers to see what variant, SL perhaps. I built most, perhaps all, of the wheels. The Grandis and Tommasini have 22mm (or is it 23mm?) Veloflex clinchers. The other high-end bikes have 22mm Veloflex sew-ups, or possibly Vittoria. The Bianchi is set up as a utility bike with a generator front hub; I commuted at night with it.

I have ridden all of them up Cadillac Mt in Acadia National Park, Maine. Those of you who have followed this C&V forum in the past would recognize all of them, I am sure.

I didn't see this question until I posted the previous note.

My Grandis is 56cm Center-to-Top, with 55cm C-C top tube. it is best described as a F1 car with only 2 wheels, hard riding, demanding that I ride faster, with lightning quick response. A criterium bike not for the faint of heart! But great fun otherwise. My Masi is similarly small but always does what I am thinking without me having to tell it what to do.

I am betting that Grandis is pretty!

Well, since you put it that way...



That saddle is gone, was unrideable!

Interesting. I've grown to like the Swallow on my Monti Special.

Gorgeous bike, Jim. I am sure you will make someone happy with that little guy.

Interesting seatpost…American classic?