Oxalic Acid

Patina

Chainguard

Original finish

Park FFS-2

Bicycle Research blocks

"I've got one of those - PM me if you want it free of charge!"

3 Cross, 36 hole wheel.

Cottered Cranks!

Square Taper

Quill Stem

Toe straps with buttons!

-Shin

The crime of Drewing. Drewness. Un-Drewing.

1935, 1953, 1954, 1966, 1970 - Heck, any year of manufacture more than 20 years ago!

Straight QR skewer levers

Chromed double butted spokes

Tied & soldered

Bearings & Cones

Norm
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/courses/...ages/norm3.jpg

Norman
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...rman_Bates.jpg

Norman
http://jamesbrantley.net/Portrait_of..._Soda_Jerk.jpg

Norman
http://homepages.tesco.net/houseofst...ke/norman2.jpg

Cotter Press

And I very seriously doubt that anyone with a carbon frame has ever been advised to try a hammer instead of a cotter press :)

Bio Pace

Framesaver

Normandy
http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/...andy_front.jpg

The dump

chromed seat stays

old Campy Record

Cottered cranks? Claw for the derailleur? Steel rims? A great bike to ride around the neighborhood, but it wasn't worth $<insert amount here...>

proofhide...

and my personal favorite -> drop bolts :(

Cash?
Check?
Campy?

-Kurt

:thumb:

an older "Normandy" (notice the quotation marks)

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...andyScript.jpg

I can't believe no one mentioned: SUNTOUR!

http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/...1-filtered.jpg

-Shin

This is where the words "cool" and "Varsity" might appear in the same sentence.

Helicomatic...
This is the only forum that probably uses this term.

Swiss thread
”What do I have here?“
Serial number database
Nervex
151 BCD
Shellac
Flamboyant

Nothing says "Raleigh" easier then "26 TPI."

-Kurt

Another C&V norm:

Don't forget April 1 will be very different, in a scratch your head fun way (unless the new forum software cannot handle our shenanigans)!

A C&V norm P.S.: Note that Kurt joined a month earlier in 2005, but has 10,000+ more posts. Oh how words are wasted on youth! :innocent: :p