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Brought home the last of my bike score yesterday plus the guy that bought the rest of the bike "collection" was going through a pile of parts at another location and found the chain guard to my Columbia built Goodyear HiWay Patrol tank bike! Here it is with the guard, now if the top half of the headlight would just surface......
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps04mazvgr.jpg BF Goodrich by Schwinn: http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...psdz7mmnrm.jpg http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...pst4luzrmb.jpg Elgin: http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...psf5abuhs0.jpg Unknown so far but I like it: http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...pspgzcbeui.jpg '63-'66 Schwinn Varsity with DT shifters, I know..... it's just a Varsity, but it's the first one this old I can remember ever seeing: http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...pskdholqpu.jpg '60-'62 Schwinn Traveler I bought just for the Bendix 2 speed but after I got it home and really looked at it I started thinking the frame might make a cool fixie. I like the graphics on it and reproduction decals are available for it: http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...psjuw3iiff.jpg |
That's a nice gesture to Pay-It-Forward.
Originally Posted by trail_monkey
(Post 19053676)
Trek 370 found in same pile my old Panasonic was in. Offered some cash but they refused. A buddy and I are going to give it a little tlc for another friend who can't afford a decent bike and has to keep borrowing bikes when we ride. Tell me how lucky we are......our friend is 6'8" and it just so happens this bike is the biggest size they made. Lucky day!
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Amero/Austro/Japanese dumpster bike
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I didn't actually catch this , is sort of sank to me. I think it is a department store brand (Executive) - I am pretty sure that one of the Mad Men would have been proud to ride it back in the day;).
The welded frame was made in Austria, the 3 speed hub and shifter are Shimano, and the saddle appears to be a Messinger or Persons. The bike has a strange bottom bracket/crank where the drive side crank arm and axle are one piece - the non-drive side is cottered. I have not seen one of these before. It is complete, but was in pieces. I think it will donate a few of parts and then it will be a giveaway after fixing it. |
Picked up this Somec from Chicago CL. Think that little oopsie on the top tube will buff out? :)
https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8201/2...3a0d5b65_k.jpg |
Originally Posted by dweenk
(Post 19072055)
I didn't actually catch this , is sort of sank to me. I think it is a department store brand (Executive) - I am pretty sure that one of the Mad Men would have been proud to ride it back in the day;).
The welded frame was made in Austria, the 3 speed hub and shifter are Shimano, and the saddle appears to be a Messinger or Persons. The bike has a strange bottom bracket/crank where the drive side crank arm and axle are one piece - the non-drive side is cottered. I have not seen one of these before. It is complete, but was in pieces. I think it will donate a few of parts and then it will be a giveaway after fixing it. |
Originally Posted by Vonruden
(Post 19056426)
My two most recent acquisitions, unfortunately both too small.
"Gitene" as the ad said has mostly campagnolo parts including hubs, with stronglight cranks, Mafac brakes, and Reynolds 531 tubing. I'm thinking late 60's or early 70's. 1950's Raleigh Lenton Sport, love the front shifter. Has 26" tires. http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/...psqcbgjdqk.jpg |
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Picked up this Specialized Hardrock Comp yesterday for free off CL. It is in excellent condition.
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Originally Posted by rdjohannes
(Post 15682783)
Haven't posted in over a year, in part because of a move (had to sell rather than buy) and partly because I'm not seeing the bargains that I saw 2-3 years ago. Talked to a fellow bike-accumulator, and he thinks we might have exhausted the supply of bikes-worth-buying or the people who think those fine, old bikes are junk. Whatever, I went to the junkyard today and found this jewel/piece of junk. It seems to be something, but I don't know what. The frame is (somewhat rusted) chrome with no decals or headbadge, but it has brazed, adjustable, Suntour ES dropouts. The derailleurs are Shimano Titlist GS, with Shimano hubs and alloy wheels, and Shimano Tourney brakes. There is a serial number on the bottom bracket, 3K6319. Showed it to my friends at the local bike shop (Broken Spoke in Manitowoc--they love classic bikes), and they thought the lugs looked like Raleigh, but thought the bike was some kind of a collaboration. I might want to fix this one and ride it, rather than barter or sell it. Help me out on this--you vintage bike gurus have never let me down. Any info would be much appreciated.http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=320038http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=320039http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=320040
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I haven't seen a many good deals on used bikes either in about 3, maybe 4 years, people are selling old junk bikes labeling them as vintage and selling them for far more then the junk value they're actually worth. Apparently by putting on the vintage label it makes the bike worth another $350; but this phenomenon isn't just only the used cycling market it's also a lot of other stuff too. I guess with the baby boomers coming of age and wanting to buy things that were in their past is driving up prices like crazy, once the baby boomers die and the buying frenzy of having something vintage is gone then prices will drop...by then it won't matter to me either since more than likely I too will be gone.
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I am sure it was easier to cut through the top tube than the lock.
Originally Posted by smontanaro
(Post 19075460)
Picked up this Somec from Chicago CL. Think that little oopsie on the top tube will buff out? :)
https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8201/2...3a0d5b65_k.jpg |
The junkyards I've been to to sell scrap metal at will absolutely not sell you anything out of their metal piles! Except at one sort of of you go to the management office you can arrange to buy future like items if your willing to negotiate a price that makes it worth their time to have the men sort it out. Personally I've never bothered trying this as I truely couldn't afford what I've already spent on bicycles and parts for them this year. Two broken down cars and the third car having issues and I'm putting money into bicycles, my priorities are messed up.
Originally Posted by rekmeyata
(Post 19093260)
I haven't seen a many good deals on used bikes either in about 3, maybe 4 years, people are selling old junk bikes labeling them as vintage and selling them for far more then the junk value they're actually worth. Apparently by putting on the vintage label it makes the bike worth another $350; but this phenomenon isn't just only the used cycling market it's also a lot of other stuff too. I guess with the baby boomers coming of age and wanting to buy things that were in their past is driving up prices like crazy, once the baby boomers die and the buying frenzy of having something vintage is gone then prices will drop...by then it won't matter to me either since more than likely I too will be gone.
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Originally Posted by game_player_s
(Post 19093886)
The junkyards I've been to to sell scrap metal at will absolutely not sell you anything out of their metal piles! Except at one sort of of you go to the management office you can arrange to buy future like items if your willing to negotiate a price that makes it worth their time to have the men sort it out. Personally I've never bothered trying this as I truely couldn't afford what I've already spent on bicycles and parts for them this year. Two broken down cars and the third car having issues and I'm putting money into bicycles, my priorities are messed up.
Same around here most people have been asking consistently $100 or more for old department store bikes, such as those marked "J.C. Penny" and "Sears" because they're *gasp* "vintage". At an estate sale being handled by and estate liquidation company just back in August I found what looked to be a 1980's model 10-speed huffy, they wanted $175 for it! |
1983 Peugeot PFN10
Apologies for the cross-posting from the Single Speed and Fixed Gear Forum, but I did actually dig this out of a pile of bikes destined for the scrap heap. I'm going to build it up into a fixed gear. My first bike build! More pics and info here.
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Originally Posted by dweenk
(Post 19072055)
I didn't actually catch this , is sort of sank to me. I think it is a department store brand (Executive) - I am pretty sure that one of the Mad Men would have been proud to ride it back in the day;).
The welded frame was made in Austria, the 3 speed hub and shifter are Shimano, and the saddle appears to be a Messinger or Persons. The bike has a strange bottom bracket/crank where the drive side crank arm and axle are one piece - the non-drive side is cottered. I have not seen one of these before. It is complete, but was in pieces. I think it will donate a few of parts and then it will be a giveaway after fixing it. hello dweenk, have encountered this marque as well and like you assume it to be that of a chain store. do not know/recall which one. cycle made by steyr. chainset is a thun. you may discover that what appears at first to be a wedgebolt is rather a pinchbolt. these sets are easily serviced without recourse to special tools. also sometimes referred to as thompson-simplex. they do not employ the shell's threads. there has been a discussion of this badge over at the schwinn forum. one poster suggested it may belong to one of the kresge group of companies: http://www.schwinnbikeforum.com/index.php?topic=22806.0 my guesstimate would be that it is slightly later than the mad men era. you may wish to post it to the "show us your austrian bikes" thread:http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...ian-bikes.html --------------------- |
junk yard bikes
I saw I was quoted about my local junk yard. It's a small, small town scrap yard. I know the owner and his family. But they do let people just walk in, look through the piles and buy things. I've picked up Weber grills, fencing for my garden, and dozens of bikes. But on the bikes, it's just not the same as it was 10 years ago or even last year. In fact, I haven't picked up a bike from there this year!
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Originally Posted by rdjohannes
(Post 19098527)
I saw I was quoted about my local junk yard. It's a small, small town scrap yard. I know the owner and his family. But they do let people just walk in, look through the piles and buy things. I've picked up Weber grills, fencing for my garden, and dozens of bikes. But on the bikes, it's just not the same as it was 10 years ago or even last year. In fact, I haven't picked up a bike from there this year!
They would not let me pull it out and set it aside, since items not sold at the auction were destined for the recycler or the landfill. I had no cash or checkbook with me so raced home and back prepared to spend enough to make my wife mad and when I returned they'd heaved several washers and dryers into the dumpster on top of the bike. I didn't even want to see what might have happened. |
Goodwill is notorious for destroying donated items, one of many contributing factors to them loosing charitable organization status in both the states of Georgia and South Carolina. Sadly this has not stopped people from donating goods to them.
Back in the late 90's my parents had the unfortunate experience of discovering they were victims of credit fraud and because it had not entirely been caught in time found themselves on the hook for nearly $100,000 in bills that were all fraudulent. We survived by raiding the dumpsters behind one of the local Goodwill's on Friday nights and flipping the stuff we found at the flea market the following morning for nearly two straight years. Goodwill eventually caught on to how popular their dumpsters were and eventually replaced them with fully enclosed compacting disposal units. It's rather tragic to think about the wastefulness they get away with. |
Gitane Resurrection
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Just took this in trade, has quite a bit of chipped paint but otherwise is in great shape and surprisingly the decals are all in excellent condition. Wheelset is an oddity, matching Araya rims with a DuraAce front hub and a Deore XT rear hub. FD is a Deore LX and the rear is a long cage 105. TA Specialties triple crankset. First order of business will be a stem and handlebar change.
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Many years ago, I found and saved a "17 Specialized Hard Rock from the side of the dumpster in our complex. All it had was the rear wheel, no tire, no seat. Added some parts to it including front susp. and turned it into my first "real" mountain bike. (red bike in the foreground which was replaced by my present HardRock Disc in the background).
Today I kinda saved a Shogun 300. A lady gave it to me. Garaged, hardly ridden, bought new mack in the late 80's to early 90's. Will give it a cleaning and once over probably tomorrow. I'll probably ride it for a bit or forever, lol |
Found my new bar bike, old Atala city bike.
http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/...psgltxbs4q.jpg Patina http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/...psvh99bfa2.jpg http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/...psifpepzpx.jpg http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/...ps79wy3vaq.jpg The big shift http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/...psm70ui1mn.jpg Dork disc needs to go http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/...psmqczsmwa.jpg |
Easy to find the shift lever if you're a little tipsy. :)
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Nice barcycle.
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Originally Posted by Vonruden
(Post 19106842)
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Great bar bike - 90% of the public would think, "too ugly to steal".
Just watch out for us C&V types - "wow, cool bike!" Post pictures if you clean and update it! |
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