"...and that's how we improved the ride quality." :)

I agree, in that i can't think of any reason to chop the tube this way other than to steal a locked bike​​; and aluminum is easier to cut than kryptonite. But then why not cut off the whole top tube, rather than just a short section?

But I'm amazed that the bike is still ridable this way.

Aluminum tube v. hardened steel seems an easy choice if you want it quick and don't really care what shape the bike comes in. OTOH isn't one cut enough?
We have all sorts of under-the-freeway chop shops and the bike supply seems endless. It's a wonder anybody around here tries using a public rack at all.

This Mikado 3-sp was observed in captivity at a church rummage sale. Not my size and no price, but cool looking. I initially thought is was a Miyata.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0fc815a6_k.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...8938ae74_k.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...870e847f_k.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c0c2b3d1_k.jpg

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...264effce77.jpg
​​​​​​- man, that looks like a '60ies Cinelli!
- ja ja :thumb:​​​​

German guy rode from Stuttgart to the Spanish coast. Big panniers but he travelled light, no more than 15 pounds of stuff I think.

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:thumb:

What's that?!

No interest in a Sears Steyr "with famous Shimano gears" ( - Alan Ludden)

Mr. Roebuck appears to have had a good deal of use - note the "swimmer's shoulders" exhibited by his bar...

The Mikado bears little resemblance to the Chevrolet pickup truck of the same name


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on those pedals! Cage or plates missing.

He was wearing cheap sneakers, one tough German. Was talking about restoring the bike though, "maybe next year".

Modern step through or top tube missing to aid in lock removal.......good candidate for the Halloween Franken_bike competition. :innocent:
Best, Ben

Two-fer, a Bob and a Greg this morning:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...d4bc22412.jpeg

Saw this Dursley Pedersen inside an office space in Stoughton Wisconsin

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5c5e3fcb_k.jpg

Saw this on Swing's website - hundred-year-old coffee roasters by the White House. I think the one on the right is a Rivendell, what's the bike on the left?
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1a0ee91764.jpg

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the letter G on the seat tube transfer should twig a memory for the right reader...


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[MENTION=183978]dmarkun[/MENTION]

I bet that's another Riv..;)

Quickbeam SS, about 2017

https://www.bikeforums.net/singlespe...ed-frames.html

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:thumb:

https://process.filepicker.io/Aevbsi...npQaKPa1qIHDCB

[me auld peepers hath bitten me in the hindquarters yet again:(]


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To be fair it was a crappy pic. ;)

My Riv radar can be pretty strong sometimes and we has a Rivelo meetup this summer and I had seen a couple lately.

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:D

first met Grant in 'lxxvii when he was clerking at the Berkeley branch o' REI

recall getting some "bobs" newsletters later on

have made not effort to keep up once the Rivendell enterprise launched

so am by the present decades behind ;)

good eye on your part :thumb:


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Yep, I get it and am a fan but won't be going out of my way to procure one at this juncture. ;)

This one's probably going to die in the streets here. Never heard of a "Del Puppo" brand, almost sounds like a joke for a French bike, but I found some pics online and this: one man operation, made to measure bikes, based in Sainte Florine in the vicinity of Clermond Ferrond, existed for 31 years, folded in 2009.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...6621996a4f.jpg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...a13fefc841.jpg

Time for a covert extraction. :twitchy:

Only just found this thread... From some years ago, outside an L station not that far from Wrigley Field.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...f017789821.jpg

I would DEFINITELY extract this bicycle! The lugs, the Vitus tubing — what's not to like? Some of the gear on it looks very juicy too. Just gotta match a fork for the geometry. I hope you keep us posted. This hulk is screaming for a rescue!

Not my doing, hopefully it is liberated at some point once and for all. ;)

I've not lived in Canada for many years, and I don't know about urban life in the USA. So I am wondering and asking myself this question:

If a person can provide some evidence that a bicycle has been abandoned, is there an authority in either Canadian or American cities that one can appeal to in order to gain possession? Some apparently abandoned bicycles that have appeared in these many pages are just too rich and enviable to end up in some destructive city removal program.

One interesting segue involves something I came across on my last visit "home" to Vancouver in 2017: not far from a friend's downtown shop in a landmark city square was a scruffy, but otherwise very tasty bicycle anchored to a pole. I asked my friend about it because it was there every day for some weeks — apparently unmoved. My friend told be it was a "decoy" bicycle. Bicycle theft had become so rampant that city authorities had staked out some bicycles with electronic devices installed in them. If removed, they could be tracked and perhaps lead to the apprehension of the culprits — chop shop operators and so on. I took this as more than just BS because Mr friend is very up on city affairs.