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This is a Team Suntour time trial bike from the 80's. It is all original (except the front wheel) I also have the training wheelset. I use it at the local time trials for fun. It gets lots of attention

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=135533

Ooooooooooooo.....

I like those. I'll assume those are steel bars so you don't wear out the aluminum. Nice!

Also very nice. A NOS one with terrible pictures just sold on ebay for a little over $200.

C-Record.

-Kurt

As much as I like vintage frames, I've never gotten hung up on vintage components. I guess my #1 would be tri-color Shimano 600 followed by Suntour Superbe.
But I really get excited about Ultegra/600 8 speed brifters and vintage 8 speed road cassettes to match.

I'm definitely 90% SunTour. I have both years of Volare's, the 77 with Crane and the 78 with Dura Ace. I have a Bob Jackson I plan to build up with Campy, and a Mk II with Sunrace, but everything else is SunTour, mostly Superb, Cyclone, and Suberbe Pro. I also have been lucky enough to find genuine SunTour chains for all of my indexed bikes which is a must to squeeze out the best of the SunTour indexed shifting.

http://ehvfxd.khanh.nl/site/wp-conte...ck-505x675.jpg

Om nom nom.

They still make the Regal, it's with the Concor Supercorsa and the Rolls in their "Vintage Collection". In addition to the colours shown on their website, you can often find 'em with a (pretty tacky) white with big-ass-logos look.

Oh, and component lust? Dura-Ace 7400 and Suntour Superbe Pro for nailing a design that reflects pure performance. No frills, and in the case of Dura-Ace 7400, a design that somehow conveys aggressive high-performance.

Just let me wipe the drool off here...

I like your style, Sixty Fiver.

You still need to get out here to vancouver for some C&V riding, track-bike style. ;)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but for durability nothing beats the Stronglight A9:
http://www.velobase.com/CompImages/H...C2A965B0A.jpeg

Mavic cartridge bearing hubs, especially the 571/2's

I know it's not really old enough, but to my eye and appreciation for rebuildable, functional, and aesthatic nothing beats Shimano 7700 DA.

I also love the Ofmega Mistral cranks and Premier derailleurs

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3358/...c1a96c8e88.jpg

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Which I thought went very well with Campy Monoplanars on my Centurionelli build.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1224/...7150273559.jpg

Definitely *bleep,* *bleep* and *bleep.* ;)
Midrange Suntour MTB stuff for some fun builds.

I would love to have a set of those Campy brakes that are sort of like center pulls but don't have the wire. Sorry I can't remember the name. I will never own a set but would like a set to hang on
the wall just to look at. They are beatiful.

My racing days are pretty much done but I might be up for a few laps around the track... at some point I will own a set of Superbe track hubs and will build them up for a road bike that will of course need Superbe brakes.

I run a Sansin tandem hub on my hybrid / tourer which is identical to the Superbe track hubs (save for a few more spoke drillings) as Sansin made these for Suntour... I have never owned a smoother or better made hub than this and have got to play with and built up a set of Superbe track hubs for a client. It was hard not to drool over my work.

If I get out to Vancouver to do some riding I will see if I can bring the Cooper with me... you will have to forgive me for bringing a geared bike and this too is an object of bike lust for more than a few folks.

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/cooper1a.jpg

Nah, it was missing. Although it does have very nice machining, I'm really not a big fan of the twisted spider look. Seems unnecessarily 'futuristic' looking to me. I'll have to agree with you on the 600 EX star headset, though. A work of art.

Oh, and I replaced my crankset with a 'road' triple, not a 'compact' triple. It's bad enough to be impugned for riding a road triple! (I've got the compact triple on another bike)

The link does not work, but I would very much like to see that bike.

I have first generation Dura Ace hubs on my 1974 Paramount. For some strange reason, I like them more than Campy.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/l...uraAceHub3.jpg

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I am way out of my league here I see.

If I am going to measure lust by what things I have hoarded beyond rational need, then it has to be early MTB frames and bits. I happen to think that rigid steel MTB make the best platform for someone like me to play around with. But that hardly justifies the swarm of frames in my rafters.

j

I don't hoard, but I do tend to pick up any mid grade or higher Suntour components I see at reasonable prices. I have been recycling these parts through various rebuilds. So I try to keep a couple of groups on hand.

+1

I love finding those mid eighties, handbuilt, lugged steel mtb's that say "Kuwahara" or "Apollo".

The early Shimano Deore Stag's Head group is really beautiful, especially the cold forged crank, and I found a complete group attached to a vintage ad nearly mint Kuwahara this summer... it also had the high flange Sansin hubs laced 36/3 to Araya RM 20 wheels.