^^ Hope you don't get rid of your old stand. That thing's awesome! I love the gussets and the assymetry of it. Steampunk workstand!

Thanks for the compliment. I will continue to use it, it's been a great help for the last year or so. I will probably use it for short term projects.

I kind of like the steampunk stand. Cool!

Picked this up for the lady last week. We're excited.

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Hi my name is Jerry and my wife claims I am a bike addict...
Our community garage sale was today, and I found this less than a block from my house. Seller claims he is the original owner and bike has been hanging in his garage for at least twenty years. It will need new tires, cables, and a lot of cleaning.
From the little research I have done, it is a mid '80s Iseran. Not a high end Peugeot, but it will do for now.
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^ I can just imagine your neighborhood's junk moving from one house to the next :lol:

I still like the cradle on my old stand better(for ease of hanging the bike), but the adjust-ability of the Park stand will be nice.

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Have you seen the price of copper lately? that thing is worth a fortune!!

I have a bunch of copper pipe laying around, I am going for it!!

Pretty much what it is...3000 homes and probably 20% of them are selling and 75% are buying. Some great deals to be had.

Aluminum is also doing nicely. Hey, it's time to get to know your local scrap metal dealer. That gas grill, table base, lawn mower deck and other stuff headed for the land fill can bring in a few bucks for tires, tubes, cable, etc.

That's a nice old Park stand. What is the model number? -Never seen one like that.

I don't think I could live with a stand that I couldn't rotate the bike with. When I'm working on a bike I'm contantly spinning the bike around and raising and lowering the head. I like to have whatever I'm working on on top and at work/eye/hands level. And the ability to put the nose down to keep the front end centered and not flopping around is great too. Doing loose-ball headsets means getting the head-tube level and often with the bike upside-down.

I do refurbs mostly on step-through bikes so your awesome steampunk stand would probably not work as well for that I bet you will find that an adjustable rotatable stand will make doing work on your bikes much more accessible and handy.

Thanks for the heads up I went out and checked them and everything is good and the clamps are tight enough that the pads don't spin. I have always had a soft spot for Jamis bikes because of the Earth Cruisers I have owned in the past. I still don't know what I am going to do with the Dakar as I can't afford to shell out $100 for the rear shock and have it sit around, I may just strip the parts for a hard tail and put the frame and leftovers away until a later date.
Glenn

Edit- Found a shock today at the shop that came off a Giant with a broken frame that the boss gave me. It should fit with some mods to the bushings due to being to wide.

Thanks for the comments. A few people have suggested that I recycle the copper and use the money to buy a real stand. I think that's a slight exaggeration. I do have a 55 gallon drum full of copper that will soon be turned into money though.

The stand is a PCS-1. I'm not sure how old it is, but would guess that whenever they changed from grey to blue on the stand colors would probably be the time frame for this. I have a friend who has the same stand but in grey(and shorter)

It does extend up to over 74" of the ground(center of clamp), with almost 6" of tube still in the lower section.

that's a great stand & doesn't look too old. I felt quite lucky to score an older grey/black one (that doesn't raise but has the same clamp & same rotation) for $30 a while back & a pretty nice bottom bracket stand for $10..so, now I have 4 stands to use for projects/cleaning/etc. & I think I'm set finally....unless another screaming deal comes along and I can upgrade one of the ones I have...

I just bought a park tool stand like that. mine doesnt extend though.

GT Timberline FS

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I had to post this update on an earlier Catch of the Day I had.

I added ape hangers to my Miele low rider then went for a ride to our park in Savannah. I came across the end of the Confederate Memorial Day service and couldn't resist getting one of the characters to pose on my ride.

I call this photo "Rebel Without a Cause"

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My "Where'd you ride today" got combined with my "Catch of the Day". I planned on going for about a 40 mile training ride with a friend, but it turned out to be a 55 mile ride, with about 40 miles pulling a trailer(20 with 2 bikes loaded. I'm wiped out now..

Bought a Motobecane Grand Touring and a Schwinn Mesa runner(Ladies) for $15 total. Both are in Very good condition with zero rust or pitting. I know jack about Motobecane, but guessing it to be mid 70s because of the Stronglight 49 crankset. It's a 25 inch frame and blue. It's a heavy ol' pig, but it looks real nice.

The Schwinn is nothing special, but in excellent shape as well. A lot of work to get them, but the price made it worth the effort.

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Gorgeous Moto GT Roger! -(and your size too?) - I would guess that it is a 73 (later they went to a Tourney crank). GREAT snag ! ! !

Your spring time catches are consistently blowing me away.

Ouch, that's frightful!

Somehow this bike stayed on CL since sunday afternoon listed at $40 obo http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/bik/2357138418.html i think they would have taken less but i'm not so good at the low balling thing, plus hadn't noticed quite how rusty it was when i made the offer

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with all the rust i was worried about it giving me problems but she yielded easily (triflow helped too)..

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need to take it over to the LBS to loosen up the headset and BB for me, and remove the freewheel so i can remove the rusty pie plate chain guard (or derust it)

already threw the chain in some rust converter and it looks a lot better, but am going to try oxalic acid for the chrome bits. It's Pugeot 103 tubing which is low end (hi ten?) but it's not nearly as heavy as I was expecting

Are those campy umbrella pump brackets??

are you talking about the little metal thing under the seat post? it says "AFA 1 - Made in France" so i'd say no ;) everything is french on the bike i think

Nice Moto GT! I've got a silver one joining the fleet soon. Stronglight crank on it too. Enjoy!