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Probably not the best use of $11. It's a Hard Rock Sport with Suntour XCM. From the corrosion, it looks like it lived in a boat. The seat is stuck and everything is rusted, but all the bearings are smooth. It looks like some one pumped up the tires and sprayed some lithium grease around, and rode it till the rusted chain broke..

I figure the 7 speeds Suntour freewheel is worth the price of admission, and the XCM bits will go in the box of midrange Suntour indexed shifty stuff.

​​​​​​Assuming the seatpost comes out, the frame is probably a good candidate for Phosphoric acid, Penetrol and wax.

The rusty spokes are a bummer. The hubs are worth saving. I ride a bike with the same rims, and have a bunch of them on orphan wheels, and on project bikes. I'm going to look for serviceable zinc spokes, to see if I can get the cost down low enough to rationalize rebuilding wheels like this.
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P.S. It took me a minute to notice that the frame has horizontal drop outs, which is a major plus in Beaterville.

It's a Zebrakenko Golden Sports with nothing wrong with it! The tires even hold air!

I will clean it up, replace a few cables, and probably sell it. It's too big for me.


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Donation to the pile. Getting that time of year when you can't leave things sitting out so I got right on it. Took off a lot of funky accessories but only needed a saddle otherwise.
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you did well:thumb:Lovely color, Alivio tranmission is very good for commuting and offroading on light terrains.

I'm pretty sure that's an IRO Rob Roy. I recall there was a more affordable group buy version in a green color.

At the time, for whatever reason, I didn't get one, but it should be solid. I saw one locked up here-and-there in Albuquerque when I lived there, but never bumped into the owner.

I couldn't stomach letting all that go for less than $10!

Here's My latest catch. I'm going to go and pick it up tomorrow. Full Campagnolo bike including 6 tubulars, a pump, shoes, helmet, and an extra handlebar. You can say that I more or less just payed for the parts and got the bike for free.

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Mr.Toolbox's Fuji reminded me that I never mentioned my Fuji. A year or so ago, I bought a Fuji The Finest from Portland CL, but I couldn't connect with the seller, so my son Chris picked it up and stashed it in his basement for me. I finally got the opportunity to mess around with it on my current PDX trip. Here's what it looked like when Chris confirmed that the stem and seatpost weren't stuck:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw...4S9GPis68=w600

I sent out a couple "care packages" containing parts and tools I thought I'd need, then on this trip started working on it. I made significant progress, but had forgotten to send out a spoke wrench. The rear wheel seems pretty straight, but the front has a very pronounced wobble. I might yet track one down here in Portland, but I more-or-less decided to just ride Chris's bike while I'm here and ship the Fuji back home where I have a full suite of tools at my disposal. Here's what it currently looks like:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw...l43DSJDQ2=w600

The box in the background is the shipping container for the return trip home.

The bike has some unusual (to me) bits. One, it has a Fujita Hupel Rider seatpost. Two, it has Ukai plastic-filled tubular rims. Poking around the net, I only saw a track variant, but the brake tracks on these are clearly wide enoug for road use. They are laced to Sunshine 5345 hubs with what appeared to be fairly light double-butted stainless steel spokes. I'll check the gauge when I get home.

smontanaro Hit me up if you need to borrow a spoke wrench while in town.

Thanks RustyJames. I think if I continue to work on the bike here I should be able to find one that I can just leave with Chris.

Super! Very unusual to find a Crescent that nice. They look pretty good and that orange is very distinctive but most have very low end parts on them.

When it rains, it pours
 

Not quite save from the dump, but managed to snag an 83 Trek 640, almost all original but unfortunately a lot of black paint applied:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...e89f2acf15.jpg

As much as I hate to break up a mostly original bike, the frame would be great for my nephew and the Campy bits should more than reimburse what I paid.

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nothing like an orange CCCXX and just in time for All Hallows Eve! :)


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Picked up this mysterious Canadian Raleigh Chill in a police auction... It was/is a complete bike -- I've already been working on it, but the wheels came with it -- and in relatively good condition for its age (probably 1996). Still had the plastic covering the crank bolt! Was surprised to find a fully functional sealed bearing bottom bracket on a bike this old, though I'm not really sure when those started coming into fashion so perhaps it's not that strange. It's main unique feature is the reflective paint, which makes this thing shine at night with each passing car. This will be perfect for my intended use of it... with a name like Chill, the plan is to make it into my new winter commuter, so I'm glad I'll be easier to see when the sun starts to go down before 5pm. Will send updates when it's done!

I will probably post this in a separate forum to help with the ID, but I'm still curious about the bike. It's got a Shimano Altus groupset and the serial number is RD687309. According to this website, I've learned the following:
R = Built in Canada (if the stickers weren't enough)
D = March
6 = 1996... probably -- based on the style. I guess it could be 1986?

The rest of the numbers are a mystery to me and I can't seem to find any others like it by Googling... If you have any ideas or suggestions for where to post, let me know!

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...f3939f1f08.jpg

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...caafa437e8.jpg

Cool paint! 1996 maybe, but definitely not an '86 not unless they replaced some components. There was no Altus in '86. Are those gripshifters? They didn't have those in '86 either. You should take a nightime pic when you're done with the build. Would love to see the reflective paint in action!

Even unusual-er is this Vitus-tubed Crescent with an odd mix of parts that just turned up on FBM. Never knew they made these.

https://scontent.fric1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...-A&oe=653660CC

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...63187701273531

Skip,

That looks like a great bike to bring on next year's Tanner's ride! :)

Julian

Great to confirm, thanks! Yes, they're grip shifters and everything looks fairly 'stock', so I'm happy to assume 1996. I'll definitely blast some light at it in the darkness for a picture to share when it's ready to go. :thumb:

Still don't need any bikes.. a ridiculous Sunday was spent and a Motobecane Grand Touring came home. Still in the van, but pictures to follow after the sun's back up. I bought it from the original owner, though a cousin had borrowed it for an indeterminate number of years. It's spent 99 percent of its life in a garage though. I looked at some catalogs last night and haven't found a match. This bike has a Stronglight 49? Crankset and Mafac brakes and levers. The shifters and derailleurs are Suntour. It looks to have low miles, but I think I'll need to clean out what's left of 50 year old grease. The rear wheel is a bit out of true and it sounds like the derailleur guard is loose or rubbing, so I'll have to check that.

Here's the pictures from the listing. The stem was so high that it only just covered the expander cone slit. I checked the stearer tube and there's no damage. I hope he wasn't realy riding it like this, but no harm, no foul.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...cae2c13cf0.jpg
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Today's addition to the I want to be a frame builder when I grow up collection. Looks like an Oxweld w-22. I've got no idea if is useful, but figured I'd risk the $2...https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...8fead194c1.jpg

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When it rains, it pours.....
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the gift that keeps giving....
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400 pounds of steel. Sleeping like a baby after spending all day trying to kill me.

Just scored this 1987 Trek Elance 330 for $40.

Not my size, so not sure what I'll do with it, yet. Might harvest the saddle for my 90's Cannondale M1000.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ac249cd864.jpg
The paint on these 80's Treks are always fantastic. Beautiful bicycle. Dia compe Alpha II brakes, Suntour 5000 drivetrain.

From the warehouse sale
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...021b78f117.jpgA few other tidbits as well.

I have a really nice neighbor who asked me recently if I wanted his dad's old bike. Yes, of course I do.

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I haven't been posting recently; going through a little bicycle burnout. It happens to me occasionally, and I try not to feel guilty about it. Anyways, I thought everyone would get a kick out of my newest free bike!

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...cb758f05c.jpeg

He'd shown me a photo of it hanging upside down a few months ago, so I knew what it was, but figured he'd sold it or something. Nope. He wheeled it over the other day and said he didn't care what I did with it, but that he'd seen all of the bikes that I'd loved-up over the years, and figured it'd be a good fate for a special bike.

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I said, "You know it doesn't fit me right?" (I ride a 58) "But I'll overhaul it and put some clinchers on it, and you can take it for a ride. Let's start there."

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He thought that sounded good. He was the last person to ride it, more than thirty years ago! So it should be a fun project, and then who knows?

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Very nice neighbor, and a very nice bike.

You can go on the internet and search for how to remove rust from chrome, and you can clean up all that beautiful chrome work. And it the chrome is too far gone and doesn't clean up you can always have it rechromed, that bike would be worth the expense.

JacobLee I need to move to your neighborhood!!