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General Bicycle
I recently acquired an old 80s road bike. Its General Brand, and the model is Campus. Though I have found some limited information on General Bicycles, I can't find anyone who has a General Campus bike. Does anyone know anything about these? Any information on them, or their value, would be great.
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I remember the advertising line: "Put your privates on a General."
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I think you need to post pics. Not much is known about this brand and we need to see the bike and components. I had one General pass through my hands. It was very low end, hi-ten steel, chrome rims, no QRs, steel stem, very low end components. As I recall I did not recognize the brand name of the components.
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Here are the pictures, hope this helps. Bear in mind, this bike was pulled out of the bushes in a park, probably has been abandoned for quite some time.
http://thestallion.no-ip.org/img_7066.jpg http://thestallion.no-ip.org/img_7066.jpg http://thestallion.no-ip.org/img_7067.jpg http://thestallion.no-ip.org/img_7068.jpg http://thestallion.no-ip.org/img_7068.jpg |
Can't say I'd have energy to put that one back on the road. The paint seems to have fared pretty well though.
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Back in the mid 80's I owned a General Sprite. Hi ten steel, steel rims, Falcon derailleurs. A tank of a bike, but I rode the hell out of it.
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i spent too much money buying my wife a General Sprite, i think it is. It's heavy and crappy. All Falcon brand components. Generally (hah!) it's a piece of junk, but it gets her around.
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this bike is going to be a bit of work. the chain was such a mess i had to saw it off with a hack saw. someone cut all the cables on the bike, and the braking mechanisms have been removed. i'm still going to take a shot at restoring this bike, it might not be too bad if i can salvage some original components. no one has any real clue about this model though?
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It looks like the components that are left are the same as those on my wife's Sprite/Sprint. Maybe, depending on where you are, you could rebuild it as a single speed and sell it on CL.
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Throw it back in the bushes.
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