Badazz find! When I get back to Houston I am going to build mine up and take it for a ride! Mine is orange.,,,,BD

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=315029Yes it is a 'Ferry Dusika' europa model [Apparently a famous Austrian rider from the 30's &40's] frame made by Carnielli from around 1979? with some nice Campagnolo Nuovo Valentino / omega parts and Regina Corsa 1 Italy 80 Freewheel 5 speed

Bad points are: there is a lot of surface rust and scratches which spells death in a tropical climate, also old rigida steel rims.
Someone has tried to slow the process by painting it with some rust inhibiting silver paint! The stickers have also been painted over in some areas.

So I have decided to strip it and remove stickers in order to save the frame..
some other pics..
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Crosspost, oh well...

Went in looking at the bike, picked up the bike(flip) and a few extras for $40... How did I do?

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Alright time for some true dumpster saving-

Got a tip that the remnants of a long gone (probably about 20 years ago) local bike shop was in some old[er] guys garage outside town and he was looking to get it out of his barn so he could start putting new things under the same old roof.

I was pretty excited- visions of boxes of NOS parts and frame sets (the shop was one of the biggest Lotus dealers in the country for a while from what I gather) kept me up last night. When I got there today with a high school kid we found a pretty amazing stash of old bike parts in long since rotted cardboard boxes. There is some good stuff to be found, but it's not nearly as pristine as I thought it would have been. Oh well.

Preliminary haul for right now- 3 windsor professional frames of varying degrees of old and rusty (forks are at the site still, I somehow didn't grab them), a lotus pegasus frame, a TON of old drop bar levers... a couple small parts. There are also some broken frames that came along with me today- a px-10 with a chainstay that had separated from the dropout, some horrifically mangled trek 531 frame and two lotus e.....(?) 531 frames- one with a dt that had pulled out of the BB lug and another with a creative hack to keep it there. I'll probably cut these up and use the tubes for welding/brazing practice or something of the sort. TBD

The only pictures I have for the time being (it got dark on the way home) are of the frames (click for big):

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Left to right- serial #'s: 2158 (no cable routing or bottle braze ons), 5171 (same size as leftmost, with cable routing, bottle braze ons, & some signs of heat around the headtube), 9395 (bottle and cable, serious heat related rusting around BB).

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Here's a VERY rough idea of what the barn looked like-

Forks and forks and forks... (some windsor, some lotus, some road, some cantilever road, some cantilever mountain)
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Anyone need a fork? I might be able to locate one or two of them ;)

the frames I was about to take with me today, but decided against at the last minute (I'll be back out there later this week).
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Schwinn Stand
 

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A neighbor dropped this off this afternoon. I gave him a pretty little Fuji 10 for his wife.

damn dan!! thats a lot of work ahead of you,, any idea what model lotus those were? any components in there?

The Lotus frames with the curved tube between seat tube & top tube look like their Pegasus model, a mountain bike. The frames pictured look huge, are they all large?

** edit - I just saw the large photo, they're definitely Pegasuses :)

Those frames all look HUGE ! Like 25-27" ???

Yeah, they're big- ill have to check again if there are any reasonably sized frames in there. Headed out today or tomorrow.

I believe these frames are the personal rides of Jim Black, the owner of the shop, general bike weirdo (in the best way). Nobody's seen him around here for about 20 years.

Ooh sweet, tall frames. That's quite the find. Too bad they're not in better shape. And what do you mean reasonably sized? 25" is a perfectly reasonable size. 27" is a bit big, but 25" is like perfect for me and I'm not that large. Well, not in height anyway. Large around is a different story. That's definitely me.

He's not buried somewhere under that pile is he?

This was the Free Dump week in Thunder Bay. Actually, last week was free dumping and I managed to grab close to 70 bicycles. All but two went to Bicycles for Humanity. The two I kept? A somewhat ratty Falcon San Romer and this whateveritis rod brake, chrome lugged wonder that has a pretty nice feel to it when riding. Yup, pumped up the tires and ride away. Everything on the rod brake jobbie works perfectly, except for some brake shudder on the front brake...

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Canadians! Just picked this Mikado Sportster up for $25. It's definitely an entry level model but the decals are in excellent shape and I like the chromed fork. I tried looking for more information and it seems on par with the Nishiki Sport. I might try building up my first fixie with this one.

i threw a couple scrap frames out by the alley for the scrap guy. he usually trolls the alleys every couple days. when he pulled up i noticed drop bars in the back of the truck. ended up being a complete all original and in very nice condition motobecane mirage. i know these are low quality bikes, but man this thing is nice. its my size but dont think im gonna hang on to it. its all apart right now getting a overhaul and new cables. i'll post some pics when finished.

Why Yes, yes I do!


Glenn

Saturday I went to a Police auction, & although 98% of it was beach cruisers ( some nice one's at that, but they were paying $100 for clean Huffy's ) I did manage to score two nice bikes & one beater for a decent amount. First is a 1962 Schwinn Typhoon straight bar, lots O rust, can be ridden as is, Painted rims are painted again red,the original white with black stripe rims look clean under poor pealing red paint.

Second bike was what I really wanted as soon as I checked it out, a 1991 Schwinn Paramount Series 70 PDG mountain bike with most of it's original parts, full XT ( Originally posted in Vintage Mountain bikes thread, post# 3416 to 3423 ). It's weathered & needs most of the hardware replaced but will clean up nice after a total clean, polish & service. I have most of the hardware in stainless for it already & I am waiting for some Jagwire cables to come in I ordered & a set of grips.
I also got a 5 bike display rack from my boss who was going to scrap it that I am hoping to do something with.

Glenn
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^ chainstay's bent :lol: that 62 schwinn would make a sweet klunker :D

Dan, that bluefork on the ground did you grab it as well? I need a fat chance looking canti fork you know with the tapered or as I once saw called on ebay mitred shoulders. aAnyone has one with at least a 6.5 steer tube. I will take 1" or 1 1/8" $$.

Did a lot of driving to get this one, but totally worth it, a Fuji Series V Tourer with extras and my size too!
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Oh, they're all 1" for sure. I'm headed back out there this week, and I'll grab a more representative sample. I'll be in touch.

got this today for $20http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=317020 old flandria

Thanks Dan, PM me if you find a mitred one with canti mounts.

Well I'll say it, that is sweet looking, and it looks to be in really nice shape, congrats on a nice fine.

It looks to be an 84 which would be the same year as my Fuji Club. I find it interesting that it uses the Suntour Mountech rear derailleur, or it should be using it, as my 85 Schwinn Le Tour Luxe, but your Fuji went with the Suntour Le Tech instead of staying with the Mountech like Schwinn chose to do; not sure what the difference is between the two but they look very similar and weighed the same. Supposedly the rear Mountech had issues where it would foul up if it got dirty, so simply keep it clean and it'll work fine, I haven't had any issues with mine; but the derailleur does shift a wide range of gears found on touring bikes very quickly and positive. And your's comes with 3 sets of bottle holders, for some reason the Schwinn I have did not so I had to add one on the underside of the down tube using a Minoura bracket. And you have the same Gran Comp 960 canti brakes as my Schwinn; if you find the brakes to be stiff new modern teflon cables helped mine a lot, as well as oiling the pivots to a much smaller degree.

Anyway nice fine. Congrats again.

I saw that FUJI V yesterday and you made quick work of it, the author had already deleted it. Where was it at?

Should clean up quite nicely.

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I had to save this from being scrapped whether it deserved it or not. 1983 Bianchi Grizzly. There isn't much info on the Internet about this, which is probably Bianchi's earliest ATB. It's in horrible shape, but for $5 I couldn't pass over the bullmoose bars and 980 cantis. The seatpost is stuck, the BB is crunchy, etc. Nice crank.

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