Looks more like a 50.

I offset [some of the] cost trips with the bikes I pick up. Last summer I went down to the jersey shore for a family vacation, along the way I picked up a miyata pro, a nishiki tri-a and a centurion something. The profit from the three of them more than paid for the logistics of the trip. Now the hotel room, that's a different story.

I LIKE chasing bikes around, it gives me a chance to see parts of my area that I wouldn't see otherwise. I tend to stay on highways, blue highways, but highways no matter, to get from place to place. Who knows where a bike will wind up.

Have rack, will travel. I agree, when trips can be combined with bike sales or buys, it can pay for the gas.

This thread is getting way too high brow.

Here's my daughter's "new" campus beater, to live in the bike rack 24/7 once it's gone over and receives a new chain. Her other bike was pinched last year, so if the thieves are this desperate they can have it. Price was as right as it gets.

picked up this sweet bianchi along with some grail stuff, i will post pictures later sometime, but at the moment this black and celeste bianchi will have to do.

Specs are 30cm ctc with a 30 cm tt, chainless, japanese components, paint is mint.

http://torontovintagebikes.com/wp-co...1-1024x768.jpg


bianchi girl, you jelly?!


j/k

Been awhile since I have been here, but I just scored this '85 Peugeot Triathalon from our scrap metal dumpster at work. Myself and another co-worker both tried to buy this bike site unseen from another co-worker of ours over a year ago when we found out he had it. We were both meet with a resounding no. So here it ends up in our metal dumpster, the guy just didn't want it anymore after he mounted a small gas motor on it for awhile. My other co-worker who origianlly wanted it just doesn't have the time for it and tipped me off, and I promptly retrieved it.

It's actually in decent shape, and has most of the original pieces on it, but is missing a few. It is my first lightweight bike, and I look foward to fixing it up and riding it----ALOT.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=344068

Awesome! BG will be jealous fo sho!

Gotta love the Italian racers, for sure.

The Peugeot looks like it will turn (back) into a very nice bike.

I like the Bianchi clock, too.

But the prize for this page goes to the mixmaster. That's a beautiful machine. What does it weigh, and how does it ride?

I once grabbed a bike like that and when I got it home the wind had blown the paper open and at the bottom it said "Leonard".

That's one sweet find! It has got to be the lightest frame from the eighties. You did well!!

The finding has been pretty thin, so my standards for projects has lowered a bit. I usually will not pick up BMX bikes, but this little GT Hybrid looked pretty cool. It has Suntour Accushift AX2000 pieces on it and a 3 speed freewheel. It can be cleaned up pretty well. I just couldn't let it sit for $5. You can't see it in the pictures, but the paint has a pretty cool pearl color to it. Anyone know anything else about these.

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps14fcfd9b.jpg
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...pseb642ba6.jpg

well heres my latest catch a pearl white mid 90's diamondback db expert tg,free from a friend of my parents i sold it to my brother. full shimano rx100 components i cleaned everything up and my brother put his seat on it it will however need new handlebar tape and a couple things as its been sitting for 17 years.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=344206http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=344207http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=344208http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=344210http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=344211

nice. I'd love to find one of those.
nice E34 too

2000 era schwinn mesa gs. pulled from dumpster and donated to my company's charity campaign.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=344276

1996 Basso Gap from C/L -- got a decent deal. Thomson seatpost/Arione, Stronglight Delta, Mavic Classics Elite front wheel. Want to put 9 speed DT shifting on this one. Been missing a straight up road bike.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2859/1...43db65d5_z.jpg

thanks

That's awesome! I have one of those aegis frames as well. Not the liveliest of rides (like a log if you ask me) but immensely stable at speed.

http://i.imgur.com/8x6UDLjl.jpg
Album- http://imgur.com/a/1JSTI#0


I really wish mine hadn't been repainted- I have no idea if it's a trek 5000, or a basso, or any of the other brands aegis made these for.

Yeah it's a 7/64" allen or something close to it that's equally daft. I have mine in my tool box wrapped in a rubber band so I don't try to use it on anything else.

Bizarre critters, these.

Edit: It's really weird, mine had equally lazy pictures in the craigslist ad. I think this one was in the sporting goods section as well. I got it for a song.

http://i.imgur.com/4Sfk2Sc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zVRJ7Mf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/B1qJxZD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zVRJ7Mf.jpg

Have only ever seen 1 Burley tandem in Australia (a very worn out Rock-n-Roll I missed out on earlier this year). This is a late 1980s or early 1990s bike. The drum brake is worth $$ (maybe USD250 + depending on condition), the rest would be appreciated by those who know what they are looking for. The bikes are heavy compared to the modern kit but very handsome, perfectly rideable and from the days when Burley was still a co-op. Nice find!

Found this 1981 DX-4000 at a yard sale. Looks like it's almost all original with Arabesque group.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2862/1...f51f6bc5_z.jpghttp://farm3.staticflickr.com/2890/1...a71d59f1_z.jpg

i have wanted a grand prix for a while now, i haven't found one that really struck a chord with me, till yesterday, this was at my coop's storage facility, covered in dust.. its all there needs a lot of love but its my size.. she has a lot of paint scratches on it, and the simplex stuff looks beat... but the nervar cranks are shining up nicely so i think she will be ok.. how bout that seat tho? wow

http://i.imgur.com/R8r1nJhh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/n2vBFQnh.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/CNXnZoIh.jpg

Ooh. Nice.
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I have a DX-3000 frame that I got in a free-pile, with a nice selection of parts. The only dislike is the the fork can only clear rather skinny tires.

I currently am in Soprano's land in northern NJ. Tonight, on my way back from Wayne after looking at a Fuji Mixte that didn't pan out, I was heading to the pizzeria via a route I haven't taken in years. Although it was pitch black, on the side of the road lurked a huge pile of trash with some BSOs. Well I doubled back and picked the Fuji Sagres off the top of the pile.

Valite goodness, just my size 57cm. I've been looking for a frame for a beater errand bike that I can ride into Detroit and not worry about it if it's parked out of my site. This maybe better than a beater Centurion Lemans frame that I think is all high tensile. The Fuji seems lighter. Seatpost and stem move freely. Only the derailleur cables seem frozen in the suicide levers.

Two years ago, I trash picked a late 1980's Schwinn Traveler on my way to the pizzeria too.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/f816k84pavg...2019.56.31.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/f3zfo6ztfd5...2019.56.39.jpg

Multi speed BMX bikes are not that common at all... Raleigh tried to offer a BMX with a 3 speed IGH which was not successful and the GT with the derailleur gear seems a little more practical.

Japanese market children's bicycles are also commonly equipped with 3 speed derailleur gears so it might have been intended for that market.

I have a later DX-3000 as well, great riding bike but yes, tight fork clearance. This '81 otoh was spec'd with 27" wheels so the clearance is great with 700c.

BUMP!
http://imageshack.us/a/img4/4493/tg6f.jpg