Wow, he did indeed put the tape to it ! Looks like a solid platform for good riding adventures.

How much post do you have left in the seat tube ?

Picked this Falcon up for $100.

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Roadside find from this past weekend, 1995ish Gary Fisher Marlin with a weird hodge podge of older (80's SR wheel set) and newer parts (Deore LX RD, brakes and levers, SRAM trigger shifters, Surly fork, Race Face crank).

Rust frozen chain and thick layer of dust indicates it hasn't been ridden in a year or two, at least. SR suspension seatpost and a nice, clean Scott saddle are the icing on a free cake.

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The only free bikes on the side of the road here are Magna and Pacific crap. Totally jealous.

I know; this is a weird one. Somebody obviously spent a few bucks on new parts for this thing not too long ago, but it seems they gave up before they got it dialed in. The brand-new brakes were set up completely wrong, and the (Presta) tubes were sorta just stuffed inside the tires, with stems folded over, not anywhere near the (Schrader) holes.

Way too small for me to keep, but I'm having fun setting it and getting ready to sell or give away.

If you weren't across the country I'd help you out! Good job and good luck!

Great score at a garage sale today. A retired pro cyclist was clearing out all his vintage gear:

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I got everything for $25. The Riello jersey and the blue Italian jersey is 80 wool/20 acrylic (is it the national team jersey?)

Here's something I rarely pick up, a french bike. But it had some nice bits, including Campy hubs and skewers, Simplex bar end shifters, nice alloy stem and bars, Mafac brakes in great condition, and Nervar alloy crankset. Even has a nice chrome fork crown. No idea what model this is, but I think it originally came with the bar ends, given the cable stops on the DT. Stamped drop outs and small seat post = something towards the basic end.

I do like white french bikes. They have a way of making them look really sharp.




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I've done really well with similar suspension seat posts.

Since my heart attacks, I don't actually go to the dump to pick up bikes anymore. In fact, I don't really look for bicycles, anymore. But when one jumps out at you, as you drive by a Yard Sale, offering itself for a more than acceptable sum, one has to say to heck with N+1, and make the buy. Unfortunately...

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I still don't have any room to keep the bicycle, so check out the for sale forum, if interested. If no one wants the bike, then I will be forced to keep the Campy Record wheel set for something else.

Dang, I love those jerseys

I' e not seen a lot of those things, and I was thinking surplusing it on the big auction site; what should I expect for it?

Depending on condition, I have gotten $52 to $100 out of Cane Creek thudbusters. Just sold one for $52 that was well used but serviceable, $100 was spotless, near to NOS. Be sure to use the term thudbuster in your listing.

I see the SR clones doing pretty similar.

Love to find them on MTBs or as individual used parts. Picked up a Cannondale MTB one time, sold the post alone for $90. The average recreational rider doesn't put a value to them anyway, so a swap out with a traditional post nets the same $$ on the bike, and then someone looking for that particular style post will be interested on that big auction site.

Unless your bike looks better in person, it looks more like a part out to me, possibly donating the frame to a co-op.

I know; I still can't believe my luck. He was an old Italian guy in his 70s, his son, wife and daughter-in-law were all there. I bought the top two jerseys and the shorts and tights and as I was on the way home I started having second thoughts about the wool Riello jersey and decided to double back and buy that one, too. When they found out I was a long-time cyclist the wife pressed the wool Italian team jersey in my hand and insisted I take it as well, no charge! I asked if there was a vintage bike that matched that vintage Pinarello jersey and they just smiled. I think that one's a family heirloom.

The best I can find is that Riello may be an Italian sponsor and Verloo is Belgian. The Italia jersey is from Vancouver and the Pinarello jersey is the Toronto Cycling Club.

That's quite a story, I think I would probably frame them with the name of the pro rider that wore them.

Got this one on Friday night via a "free bike" posting on CL. It was in pretty ugly cosmetic shape but only needed a good washing and some new bar tape. 1984 Schwinn Le Tour Luxe.

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^Wow, that's a great find. I guess touring bikes aren't the most desirable to some people but they make fantastic commuting bikes. Those gold tabs on the brake levers look vaguely familiar. What do they do?

cable tension release tabs. When you want to take the wheels off the bike.

Back brake cable could use a little work.

It's a "quick-release" for the brakes, to make it easier to get the wheels off. They swing to the side...

***beat me to it***

^Thanks, guys. I knew they looked familiar. I haven't seen those in decades.

For free! You did real well, you did better than real well! I have the 85 version of your bike and I really like it, I like it so much it's the bike I do my weekend tours with and will probably be the bike that I'll do my cross country tour on, it's a very comfortable bike to ride on. The only problem I had was I couldn't get the brakes to work smoothly or without using a lot more handgrip then I was accustom to using so my LBS was able to dial it in by replacing the straddle cable and new modern friction free cables, the and now it works really nice.

You probably already know this, but the wheels are 27", there are a couple of really nice tires you can buy for that bike, I put on the Panaracer Pasela TG and those tires are wearing like iron and have yet to have a flat after about 1800 miles thought I cheated a bit and put a Panaracer FlatAway line on just the rear tire to eliminate flats on the rear while touring. The Pasela TG comes either rigid or folding I got the rigid because they didn't cost much, the other good tires is the Vittoria Zaffiro, Continental Gatorskin and the Conti Gator Hardshell if you want a far tougher tire than the sidewall fragile Gatorskin, Schwalbe Marathon if you want a very long lasting bullet proof heavy duty touring tire which is what I'll probably use to do the cross country tour, and Michelin makes the World Tour tire in that size. There are a few cheap tires like Kenda and a Chinese Cheng but those two are pure junk, they wear fast and have no flat protection.

Also you can use a 700c presta valve tube with a 27 inch tire, all you need to do is get a Schrader to Presta rim adapter, the plastic one didn't work well for me so I had to get the aluminum one.

Sorry for rambling on about some stuff you probably already know anyways.

SO CLOSE!!! At one time I had four touring bikes. Shogun Alpine GT, Miyata 1000, Fuji Touring Series III, and a Univega Gran Turismo. I sold them all, and have regretted it ever since. I walked into one of my pawn shop stops today, and there was another Touring Series III, EXACTLY like the one I had. Unfortunately it was also the same size, 63/64 cm.. Arrrrrgh! I have finally progressed past the snap up any bike I see mentality, so I decided to leave it for someone else. It was pretty nice, only needed a good cleaning. I could barely stand over it. If it was a 60/61, I'd be posting pictures of it right now.:(.,,,,BD

My old one.. tall as all get out. The one I found today was the same exact size.

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Just found what I believe is a 73 Schwinn Sports Tourer, in my size at the co-op. Im super excited.

I really like this bike. If it were my size you'd have a buyer.

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Sorry for the bad, quick phone pic, but I picked up this '91 Trek 950 for $65 today on CL. It's clearly had a hard life, many scratches and scrapes on the frame and parts, mechanically it works well though. I threw a set of tires on it from another bike for the time being, as the ones it came with were in bad shape.

I also gave it a mini tune-up on my bike stand and it shifts almost flawlessly. The wheels are very close to perfectly true surprisingly, and I'll make them even better tomorrow. All that aside though, it rides beautifully. The lugged frame is very responsive and has a nice firmness to it. I'm planning on taking it on a 25 mile ride tomorrow morning to really get a feel for it.

Ultimately I'm hoping to get it really cleaned up and hopefully it'll look a bit less 'used'. Really wondering what I can do about it's many scrapes and scratches, touch up paint maybe? I'm open to suggestions. :)