They must have bought a turd load of those white gummed hoods and then just matched the paint to them. By the way, got an extra white hood?

No spare white hoods here. They look nice with certain colors, but they require cleaning after every ride.

Just scored a fairly minty Chicago built Schwinn Continental from my ex's dad. He gave it to me, and I spent tonight cleaning it. It looks good!

a lot of the time a "women's" version of a bike would get white hoods

I just don't remember seeing an Ironman with black hoods.

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Traded a set of bent steel rims, and old walmart seat and ten bucks for this Raleigh. Quite frankly I don't know much about it , but I belive it's a 77-78 model. It was rusting away and I couldn't take it so now I have another project. I dont believe the bars are original, but I have a set of Cinelli drop bars that would work nicecly. Other than the saddle, it's all there. Paint is not good, so this may be one for an attempted rattle can restore.

It looks like a 1977 Raleigh Grand Prix with SunTour components. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroral...rand-prix.html

Tonight I picked up a CL find.........Bridgestone RB-1, a '89 I believe. This bike was listed cheap on a CL board about 2+ hours southwest of Chicago on Saturday afternoon. I picked it up Monday evening. A CL board that sees very few bike listings and therefore gets little traffic. I did'nt have the heart to tell the seller that his bike would have sold in about 10 minutes on Chicago CL. It's original, it's been maintained and is still in pretty good shape. Has a full Suntour GPX group and Ishiwata triple butted EX 4130 frame............oh, and it's my size!

I'm still confused about Centurion's and Nishiki's. I have a Nishiki Olympic and can't find a lot about it other then they existed. But when I use to live in Santa Barbara CA, Hendricks bike shop carried both of those bike brands, but supposedly they were sold only in retail stores according to web searching I did. So I'm wondering if Centurion and Nishiki had one line of models for retail stores and another (perhaps higher level models?) for LBS's?

Momo design city bike
 

Can't say that I saved it from the dump, but I did save it from going to waiste!
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I started a thread here: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...what-what-what

Bike shops are "retail stores".. do you mean "big box" or department stores? i think i heard nishiki did sell some of their lower end bikes in department stores but i dont think centurion did

My find today wasn't in the best of shape. Most of you probably would walk away from it. But I couldn't. It's an odd ball mtb, unconventional frame. Kind of a poor man's Panasonic MC Comp.
No idea of its year. Company is Titan Cycles, it's a High Country 500-LX. It's Taiwanese made, and there's a sticker indicating Chrome-Moly main tubes. It has Shimano (Exage?) 500 LX components, with a rear aluminum Exage U brake, 7 speed HG cassette, and the chainrings are aluminum.
Onlly problems are the stuck seat post (what is it lately with my finds? Stuck posts!)
and rusty scratches covering a lot of the frame. It'll need a repaint.
Stuck seat post aside, it was too funky to leave behind. At least I talked the seller down to $15.
Tear down commenced.

Couldn't find anything on this model anywhere, only of another one being sold in CA. Here's a pic from that ad, of how one looks like....
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Doesn't look like there is much post left in the frame.

That photo is from the only one I could find online. It's from an identical bike being sold in CA.
My post is 2/3 of the way inserted. Will get a pic up of mine later, need to find the camera.


edit:

Here's a pic of the frame. The purple/green/white marble paint is cool, but it's coming off. Lots of rusty scratches that need addressing. The post managed to twist 90 degrees, so there's hope for it.
The Panasonic MC Comp wasn't a lightweight, therefore this one weighs in even more. I measured the top tube and it's 56cm. So, given both, I think this will become a road going bike, not back to a mtb.

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Update:
The seat post's top portion was turning only! #$%#$^@#$!
I had to drill a hole through the top of the post and bolt the two parts together. Several big grunting twists later, it rotated and slowly pulled out. Yay!

I recalled these types of frames are called E-stays. Always thought they looked cool. Now I have one in my keeper fleet. ;)

I mean't big box stores. A web search I did said both brands were only sold in big box stores, not in LBS's.

1984 Renegade MTB

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1984 Renegade MTB by (cobrabyte), on Flickr

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1984 Renegade MTB by (cobrabyte), on Flickr

Nice find.. I've never heard of Renegade but it looks like it has all the vintage MTB goodies.

I have never heard of a Renegade either, but it looks alot like a Schwinn Sierra.

I really dig that Renegade looks like a great ride, nice tall frame and bull moose bars to boot. All the MTB's I find are low level or are for midgets.

I can't find much on it either. Internet searches provided a few 'for sale' ads in Canada. Im guessing it was a Canadian company? I bought it for commuting & utility purposes. My third vintage MTB in two months so yeah I'm on a bit of a 26" utility bike kick lol. Next may be a 650b bike. This way ill have all three 650 sizes in my stable....a,b&c :-)

This week's harvest: two Jan Janssen's.

Wednesday: a "Tour de France", with "220 high quality super tubes". Don't know what that is, but I like the lugwork and the blue suede saddle, not to mention the translucent blue Shimano cable housing.

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Thursday: an "adamas ax" with a surprising mix of adamas and 600 ax parts, and everything else aero as well.

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It was a nice week.

I'm pretty sure that "super tubes" are what the internet is made of.

That would make it an interesting, but pretty heavy internet:)

This sat on CL for about three days, I'm not sure why...

I responded on the second day, and got a reply from the seller on the third day. I had some questions, and Thrifty Bill was nice enough to help me out with them.

82 or 83 Miyata 1000. I acquired it from the original owner.

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Wow!
You snagged the proverbial grail of touring bikes there Roger!
- What a nice bike!!!!

(Lose the foam grips though immediately!)