Man I can never find a score like that in Seattle maybe I'll have to make a trip to Whidbey Island :D I have been thinking one of those hybrids like a Multi track would make a great commuter, nice score OP

It was just the type of frame I have been looking for, for a commuter and touring. Just keep your eyes peeled and maybe you'll get lucky.
Was just in Seattle Capitol hill and Pike Place today. Lot of nice bikes to be seen but also a lot of stripped frames locked to bike racks. :twitchy:

Yeah I often wonder what happens to those poor abandoned frames still locked to a rack, I assume the city comes around with some bolt cutters very once in a blue moon and the frames go to the great scrap yard in the sky :(

Picked up a RockHopper comp for cheap on FB marketplace and with the help of @T-Mar and others was able to ID it as a 1989 model.

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As Found
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Prices have come down a LOT in the city. About a month ago I saw a 720 multitrack at Dearborn St. goodwill for $40 and, on the same day, interestingly enough, a 700 multitrack for $35 at Ballard goodwill. Passed on both of em, but Goodwill has a lot of great deals these days

Holy Crap!
 

I think your Rockhopper is more like an '87, judging from the Biopace rings. I have it's twin.

Holy Campagnolo! Great Tullio's ghost! I got to clean out three shop drawers worth of Campagnolo bits from a shop that's been in operation for more than 40 years for less than some eBay sellers would charge for that Zeus 26.8 seatpost. If I start now, when I emerge in the spring I might have most of it sorted out and identified ...

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^^^^^ Complete with security patrol:
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Nice haul!

Okay, so one more now. I was in Bruges last Saturday, parked and was walking into town when I saw a bike shop with a bike hanging up with a price tag on it. Spotting it immediately from a distance and I knew it was something special. It was very special. It was cheap. So I agreed to buy it. When I went into the guys office in the back to pay, he started explaining to me whose bicycle it was. Guy was deceased, it was his personal bike and the bike had been hanging in the house since, and the family was interested in letting it go. He tells me the guys name and it doesn't register to me at first, but then he says 11 days in the yellow jersey....Tour de France stage wins.... Eddy Merckx's top domestique....

He was not racing anymore when he died so young, but was managing a German bicycle racing team, which may explain the German labels on this Martelly built frame.

It belonged to Georges Vandenberghe. Look him up...colorful history....I now have one of his machines.
Georges Van Den Berghe

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That's one sweet find with history behind it. You should contact Merckxx to relive some memories with his teammate.

@coolkat are you seeing these online or are you a jet setting goodwill shopper? :D thanks for the info I might have to give the one in Burien another chance, it was slim pickings last time I went

haha, i was there for a few days in the summer and couldn't resist taking a look. I lived in Seattle until 2016 so I'm familiar with bonkers prices Goodwill used to charge.

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A free bike from an elderly neighbor who was moving to another state a couple weeks ago. It's a 1974 Grand Prix. I put the new tires on it, also a new rear derailleur as the Simplex was toast. It was filthy with grime and surface rust and had been hanging on a garage wall for least 25 years.

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Never know what you're going to find at the garage sales.

I wouldn't have gone for this '89 Axis today, but it was cheap and I recognized some good components on it. I aim to cannibalize the cockpit stuff (stem, shifters, levers) for a buddy's bike. There are definitely some differences between this and a stock Axis, according to the catalog scans I checked out:
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There are no decals or identifying marks on the cranks. They look Cook Brothers-ish and are an odd size (177mm). The dust caps say Sugino. Non-driveside crank is cracked bad:
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Cool fork, too:
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The Apex was a long way up the DB food chain IIRC. Be a shame to tear it apart. Same with your Bridgestone MB-5, ir could make a very respectable gravel bike.

Sigh, the bike magnet strikes again... Came across this '85 Club Fuji this morning and on impulse took it home. It's in decent shape except for a little rust on the top tube cable guides and a lot on the left side top headtube lug. Easy enough to repair that and touch up - but not sure where I'll go with it yet, doubtful I'll keep it.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...10ce47cf07.jpg
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Torker LX
 

Not C&V but......Found this set out with the trash the other morning while out riding. Nice cranks and aluminum rims. Did some research on it, turns out its a pretty good model. Think I'll try to learn to ride it when the weather is more hospitable.



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Nice 83, first year for the 520.