Poor bike. If that's a Brooks Cambium saddle - which I think it is - then it would be worth salvaging.

I was going to the local general store just as a middle aged gent in in full riding kit stopped in on this. He didn't have a lock, so he took it into the semi-covered area where they store stuff like potting soil and vegetable starters. I followed him in and spoke to him briefly about it; he had just gotten it from his father in law and didn't know anything about it, so I told him what I could: bonded frame made from mag-alu anodized tubes; built up with 600 Tri-Color, unusual and of note to vintage bike nerds. I gave him an info card on the local metric century group ride and he sounded interested. Maybe he'll show up on it. :)

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Another poor guy on the NY city streets

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Well, imagine how I felt when my friend sent me an email with a link to a flickr account. She said "Isn't this your bike?" Sure enough someone in Portland saw my bike parked (I was inside the restaurant ordering food) and snapped a photo. One of the people who comment in the comment section of this person's flickr photo of my Hardrock Ultra was none other than [MENTION=188161]adventurepdx[/MENTION]. I had gone on a very long bike adventure that day from my town, to Portland, all around and it was time for dinner. Here's the photo:
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2950/...988d2a72_z.jpgUltra. by lumachrome, on Flickr

It's nice being spotted :)

An evolutionary mutant.

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Vlaanderen, I mean, Fells Point, Baltimore:

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Inner Harbor:

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Motobcane ghost bike.

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At our local library, a nice lavender Bertoni Corsa Mondiale, mid-80's, judging by the 600EX gruppo. (The fattie C-dale behind it doesn't count, because it's mine.)


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On a street in Berlin:

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Flandria 3-speed, probably a little newer than it looks.

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Grotefoto-UU7QD8DJ.jpg

I mentioned this bike in another post a few days but didn't realize I had pics of it. When I was stranded in Al Udeid Air Base back Sept of 2010 I saw the poor old Hercules. Odds are I could have simply gotten a pump aired up the tires and started riding it but I never got up the nerve. I thought about a bringing it home too but in the end our plans changed and we had to fly home commercial air from Calif back to N.J.

IIRC it was in a British berthing area so it could have been there for years.

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http://api.viglink.com/api/click?for...5f499e895c509c

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Does this count? ;)

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That looks so much like a Vitus 979 — even the dimple on the head tube — same. Was this frame really a Vitus in different livery?

Seen leaning against a warehouse in my old neighborhood, at a time when I had no more space in the basement and boxed bikes in the attic.
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The "Moto" in "Motobecane"...

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Spotted in the window of a retail storefront on Fifth Avenue. Let's see: low end Schwinn, pie plate, reflectors, stem shifters, turkey levers, steel rims- probably weighs about 30lbs. Can't say I'm terribly impressed :lol:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7691/...d1ce6847_b.jpg

Closer to 40 lbs, iirc.

My wife would say "honey, now that's a cute red bike. Lets go shop here."

One of the nicer C&Vs I've seen locked up outside.

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At the local health food store, vintage Schwinn World Sport with an interesting cockpit configuration.

No doubt owned by one of our many local hobo/triathlete/cat-ladies :)

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