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08-13-18, 09:39 AM
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08-15-18, 02:13 PM
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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.
08-15-18, 02:24 PM
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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.
08-15-18, 02:45 PM
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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.
08-15-18, 04:42 PM
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Thanks for the removal tip,JD. I have a cherry ou-10 that while dialing in the shifting I managed to break spring in simplex derailer. This piece will look great on that bike.
08-16-18, 10:26 AM
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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.
08-16-18, 01:15 PM
...addicted...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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08-17-18, 07:29 AM
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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.
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.
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.
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08-20-18, 01:39 PM
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Literally saved from the dump. I don’t think it has much value. It has exage sport lx group and a wrecked rear wheel along with lots of dings but I could not let a straight frame die. I have been wanting a Celeste Bianchi (lugged frame) in my size so it may be a candidate for a repaint.
08-23-18, 04:01 PM
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08-24-18, 10:59 AM
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Literally saved from the dump. I don’t think it has much value. It has exage sport lx group and a wrecked rear wheel along with lots of dings but I could not let a straight frame die. I have been wanting a Celeste Bianchi (lugged frame) in my size so it may be a candidate for a repaint.
08-24-18, 11:01 AM
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08-25-18, 10:42 AM
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Literally saved from a steel scrap yard in Germany as a nearly bare frame. The only thing which saved it was the Campy headset and bottom bracket cup, which caught the eye of the picker, who snagged it for his bike friend in Poland, who sold it to me, not knowing what it was.
Klaus Peter Thaler’s team Puch. Team serial number 001. Confirmed by him to be the bike he rode in the 1982 TdF, as well as many others. He was 4x WC in CX, twice as an amateur and twice as a pro and took 7th in the road WC in 1982, but not on this bike.
08-25-18, 11:01 AM
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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!
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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!
08-25-18, 05:55 PM
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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.
08-25-18, 06:47 PM
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Literally saved from a steel scrap yard in Germany as a nearly bare frame. The only thing which saved it was the Campy headset and bottom bracket cup, which caught the eye of the picker, who snagged it for his bike friend in Poland, who sold it to me, not knowing what it was.
Klaus Peter Thaler’s team Puch. Team serial number 001. Confirmed by him to be the bike he rode in the 1982 TdF, as well as many others. He was 4x WC in CX, twice as an amateur and twice as a pro and took 7th in the road WC in 1982, but not on this bike.
08-28-18, 01:48 PM
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These were pulled off a high end Azuki Mixte. Instead of throwing them I thought I would see if they can be taken down to good pad. They looked original to the bike which was from the late 70’s, early 80’s. When did Kool Stop start making the Continental pads anyway?
08-28-18, 02:13 PM
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Literally saved from a steel scrap yard in Germany as a nearly bare frame. The only thing which saved it was the Campy headset and bottom bracket cup, which caught the eye of the picker, who snagged it for his bike friend in Poland, who sold it to me, not knowing what it was.
Klaus Peter Thaler’s team Puch. Team serial number 001. Confirmed by him to be the bike he rode in the 1982 TdF, as well as many others. He was 4x WC in CX, twice as an amateur and twice as a pro and took 7th in the road WC in 1982, but not on this bike.
08-29-18, 03:48 AM
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Late 1972 or 1973 Gitane Tour de France
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.
This was Gitane's equivalent of the Peugeot PX-10 model. Most owners of both models love those bikes.
Judging by how low the seat is, it looks like it was TOO BIG for who ever was riding it. You should be able to stand over the top tube and have 1" to 2 " of clearance between you and the tube - in case you ever have to do a quick dismount.
From Schwinn, a good starting point:
The stem is WAAAYYY TOO HIGH. It should be inserted at least 75mm - 80mm (3") into the steerer. Before it's ridden I'd recommend that the fork be pulled and the threads at the top of the steerer be inspected for any cracks.
When the expander wedge is tightened in the threads they can bulge and cracks develop.
There's lots of info concerning the rest of the bike. A Google search on Bike Forums for specific questions is faster and easier than the forum search engine.
Also, some people like "safety levers" but they are unsafe for lots of reasons, especially the Weinmann/DiaCompe ones on your bike.
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08-29-18, 03:52 AM
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Not really saved from the dump nor is the bike vintage (around the year 2000, I think) but for fifty dollars, a near mint Trek mountain bike is not a bad deal...
Needless to say, it does not fit, or interest, me and I did intend to make a fast fifty bucks by listing it, locally, on-line. Until my youngest grand daughter got her pretty little eyes on the bike, claiming it for herself, immediately. She will have to grow an inch, or so, but by next summer, when my wife and I bring her to spend a month with us at the lake, the bike will likely be good for her to ride (I hope)...
Needless to say, it does not fit, or interest, me and I did intend to make a fast fifty bucks by listing it, locally, on-line. Until my youngest grand daughter got her pretty little eyes on the bike, claiming it for herself, immediately. She will have to grow an inch, or so, but by next summer, when my wife and I bring her to spend a month with us at the lake, the bike will likely be good for her to ride (I hope)...
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09-01-18, 03:20 PM
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09-01-18, 10:19 PM
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Dr. Frankenstein I presume?
Nice day today saw a truck full of bikes going down the road, I mean full like 35 bikes stacked three high. I couldn't resist finding out more about them so I pulled along side and asked the guy, "What's up with all the bikes?" Turns out he is on his way home from a police auction where he had purchased the bikes. He was just a mile from his home and invited me to come take a look. With so many bikes it was hard to focus on anything in particular kind of like looking into a stuffed storage container. I started to check out the bikes as he and his son started unloading. A red frame road bike caught my eye and all I could see of it was what looked like a rising sun on the back of the seat post tube. Turned out to be a Nashbar Road Mk II a little scratched up and a 26" rear wheel in place of the original. Next to it was a Gary Fisher Mamba mountain but it didn't look right. Aliens walk among us this is the proof. 700 wheel set shoehorned into the 26" frame with road caliper brakes. Here's the scary part everything worked right down to the road bike corncob rear gear cluster. Scored both bikes for $30
09-05-18, 06:23 PM
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Picked up some Suntour bear claws.
Plus, they came with a bike.
A little beat, but what the hell.
Plus, they came with a bike.
A little beat, but what the hell.
09-07-18, 10:48 AM
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Got to a rummage sale just in time to see someone walk off with this Schwinn Le Tour Tourist.
Great color - Price was $1.
Great color - Price was $1.