Decided it was a good candidate for Narhay's Clunker Challenge, it will give me a chance to decide if it's worthy of further resurrection or if it's a parts bike. Got it running last night and the initial test ride was very promising. If I go further with the rehab it won't be a keeper for obvious reasons, it's too damn short. Yes, both the stem and seat post are in past the minimum insertion marks....... It would make somebody a good campus bike or commuter, it's just banged up enough to be totally unattractive but still fully functional.

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I picked up two tubular wheelsets with the grey super hard annodized araya aero 2 rims and Campy hubs, 7 speed freewheels, for $35. Guy had stripped two team level Panasonic's, donated the frames, tossed the rest of the Campagnolo parts, but hung on to the wheels. Kills. Me. Aaaaagh.

I'll second that.................. Aaaaagh!!! :eek::bang:

Paramount Series 30
 

All mine for $25!

Nice score!

I am no expert but those appear to be tubular tires and yes they do get glued on, nice SunTour bar-cons

Nice bike, well worth keeping. Be careful with that rear derailleur; it's worth more than you might imagine. Don't try to remove it by sticking a wrench in the Allen socket on the upper pivot as that will likely ruin the derailleur. Instead, remove the wheel and find the Allen socket on the inside and remove that bolt.

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$50 find while in LA for work. Cleaned up quite nice with soap and a little bit of elbow grease. Now time to polish.

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A few weeks ago I answered an ad for a "Fugi bike" with blurry, indistinct photos, but just having seen cb400bil's Team Fuji posted, was able to identify the bike. Ad listed it for $xx, had been marked down from $xx.
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Guy is a public school teacher who does hauling and odd jobs over the summer, and a landlord had asked him to clean out his basement.
I showed up for the buy with $xxx dollars, and I spent it all.
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That's right... there was a SECOND Team Fuji in similar condition. The ad fuji had the original seatpost, but changed everything else. The custom painted bike with "Jim Wright" in script on the top tube had the original stem, and I believe original cranks and shifting gear. So, now I have to build up both of these. The plan is to re-repaint the Jim Wright back to Flamingo, put a new set of decals on it ($50+ from Velocals, already in the mail), and build it with modern running gear. There's enough original gear between the two frames that I can make one mostly original bike out of the others, minus wheels, of course.

edit: Not sure I want to post the purchase price, but suffice to say that either can be entered into the Clunker 100 challenge, with judicious fixes.

A conversation with a friend who owns a bike shop in another city led to discussion of the Clunker Challenge 100, which led to a conversation about this bike that had been sitting unclaimed in the attic for eight years before he bought the place 22 years earlier. I wound up paying him $1 per year it had been stored up there, a whopping $30 for this early 70s Bottecchia Deluxe minus saddle, seatpost and rear centerpull cable housing stop with mismatched brake levers.
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All the good bike boom gaspipe entry level stuff applies - nameless tubing, lackluster paint, steel 27-in rims with textured brake tracks, nutted 3-piece hubs, steel cottered cranks and Simplex Prestige derailleurs are all present. Slightly nicer than average was the choice of alloy Simplex shift levers, Universal centerpulls and alloy Carnielli handlebars and stem. While I could try to get this one going in time to be a second entry this year, I'll probably mothball it for 2019.

Picked this up today for $60. A mid 80's Raleigh Panasonic Team Cadet. I'm glad it's a cadet because if it was the team replica, it wouldn't be in my size!
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https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1869/...e1608f31_b.jpgIMG_5033 by 2cam16, on Flickr
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1812/...4557d6ed_b.jpgIMG_5032 by 2cam16, on Flickr

Thanks Law! That's what caught my eye.

This was given to me today from a long time co-worker. Tires appear to have been Glued on. Not familiar with these. Paint really rough with a bit of repaint in places. Components appear to be in great shape. Bar end shifters will be great for a long time drop bar project.
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Nice Tour de France! Stronglight headset and crankset, Mafac Competition brakes, up-scale Simplex RD & FD. Pedals, seat, brake levers and bar shifters are after-market, but the Campy hubs would have been original.
Replacement decals are available, if you like them that is. Frame and fork are probably Reynolds 531. Search for threads about restoring this bike!

I picked up this '80s Mercier today. Here is a picture from the ad. I have it up on the stand and am tearing it down. The guy I bought it from is in the military and was being deployed so he was getting rid of stuff. It didn't cost me much. It has Campy shifters, hubs, pedals, derailleurs, bottom bracket, headset and crankset.