okay I'm bored, post up your bikes that you built up with parts that suited you, not necessarily the "right" or period parts, bikes that reflect your style and preferences with new and old parts. This is my fixed gear commuter (locally built!). I put older dura ace cranks on it, VO parts, mavic wheels, new brooks swift saddle, etc.

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I can play bored...

I have about 4 going at the moment, all are stalled waiting on strategic components

But here is one I managed to get 100%, well 99%, still needs bar tape. 1989 Giant Iguana, drive train is pretty much stock Suntour XCM, I did add a wide range freewheel. Full Jandd Expedition racks, Planet Bike fenders, Nashbar trekking bars, Origin 8 stem, new seat post and a Brooks Flyer saddle. Tires are Gotham City kevlar. Also put in a new bottom bracket, probably an SR.

Aaron

That would be all my bikes, probably.

All of my other bikes are largely "correct", with campy NR or SR groups, dura ace,, zeus, etc. Makes it easy to decide on replacement parts, but sometimes spendy.

Bored & out of ideas, apparently.

'88 Trek 900 MTB frame that was given to me through a post on Freecycle.org about 4 years ago, including some of the components. Gave it some wheels robbed from a Gary Fisher Wahoo that I never cared for (since replaced with some new wheels). Put drops, Tektro levers, linear pull brakes and road tires on it this year. Since this photo, I've replaced the bars with different drops that put the hoods in a better location for me, changed the tires out for Panaracer Paselas and added a Brooks B17 just the other day.

It's now an LHT. "Long Haul Trekker". Need to take an updated pic.


Old Red by Yo Spiff, on Flickr

those bikes look great.. i love to see what everyones bikes look like get all kinds of good ideas \m/\m/

This one has some odd mixes - classic Cinelli bars/stem, classic seatpost, Look SPDs, Silca, 80s Cobra bottles...but a raging fury of Campy 11sp where it counts.



This bike is definitely an odd duck - from the dirt drop style bars, to the v-brake/aero levers to the Suntour commands. It was built to be functional on a budget - with one piece of bling (the headbadge):





Another true frankenstein - nittos, tubus, 105 9sp triple, dia-come NGC 982 (best canti EVER), campy aero post (just because), honjos with an expedition frame built as a sports tourer. The result is the most versatile, useful bike I've had the pleasure of riding. If I ever get two months to tour, I'd gear down and use barcons.

Without a doubt, my '82 Schwinn Superior. It is the only build I've done where each and every component was chosen to suit my taste in style and function. Granted, nothing strayed from C&V (though strictly speaking, the V/O fenders and generic stainless bottle are K.O.F.), but that's because I had no particular component preferences outside of C&V to begin with:



It's not the best hard-riding bike I have, but it certainly is the most effortless of the fleet to shift and brake with.

-kurt

You've all seen this before I suppose.....

1983 Raleigh Marathon with a 2-speed kickback hub, Brooks B66 and cruiser bars.

Is that Alfred E Newman? pretty cool...

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What, me worry?

I think all my bikes fall into this category, but the most mixed up for the sake of utility and cost-effectiveness is my Colner 1x7.

This is the bike I ride around town when I don't need cargo capabilities.





Campagnolo brakes, Shimano 105 RD, Retroshift, Suntour Superbe cranks, sunrace FW, VO wheels.

Now has black Soma Hwy 1 bars and blue cloth tape.

I know I've said this before Wolf, but that is a killer build and I love the orange. How is that shifting working for you? Can we have a close up?

Thanks Aaron. That's good stuff coming from you. Don't have too much in the way of closeups but here's a couple.

The back:


And me riding it. Another thing that's changed since these photos is that Grady sent me some Challenge Parigi-Roubaix tires


As for the shifting, it works very well. This bike is geared really low for me though, with the 45T chainring I am almost always in the smallest cog. I think a 48 or 50 would work better, as chainline is best about 3 cogs in.

Interesting idea for a thread. I'll post this one first. scouring CL one day I found this over in in....OH Yardley I think about 30 or so min north of Philly. I got the frame/fork, HS,BB and the Deore LS brakes.



For those of you who have not seen it a zillion times on here is a Bianchi Boarala Cross bike from about '90/91 with a Columbus MAX OR tubeset. I couldn't decide if I wanted to make a 'cross out of it or more a touring/randonneurer bike. Then an idea struck..... I always wanted a 5+ IGH bike. I got a nice set of Salsa Delgado rims with shimano Alfine "Redstripe" {Yeah BEER!** rear hub and dynamo in the front. then simply because I had it I added a CampI triple crank.




Because of the vertical dropouts I needed a chain tensioner but an old Duara Ace RD took care of that. Because of the 'high wire' cable routing and the big oval tubes running the FD and rear cable tricky, since I couldn't just ignore the brazeons and use clamps. It is not pretty in places but the shifting is smooth. OH a cheap old stem adaptor and stem hold the bars and CampI levers pull the Deore cantis pretty well. A JTEK barcon shifter controlls the gears but get confusing because it operates backwards from a normal barcon.

I agree this is a great looking set up and kind of gives me an idea. I have this Bianchi frame I need to do somethign with.... then there is that chainguard.... a set of Moustache bars..... Rally RD........ those Galli brakes and cranks or maybe the blue Galli to match the cranks...... but then I may have to powder coat the red frame.....

Kestrel RT700. Trying to sell the frame for someone, but I may just buy it. I do like it, noise and all.
Microshift brifters/FD/RD because they're light and black and I'm saving the better stuff for my Ironman.
Campy Chorus crankset on Record bb because the BB is stuck. Doesn't hurt that it's magnificent.
Campy Record rings because they're the only 9sp rings I have.
Campy housing because it's already cut and routed, and routing = PITA on this one.
DA 7900 wheelset, because I'm trying to sell them for someone, will probably buy them myself.
Ultegra calipers because that's all I had that wasn't Campy.
Tufo clincher tubulars because they're light seem pretty tough.
Aero seatpost-I had to buy it becaue the round one looked dorky
XC/MTB SI Flite Gel Flow XC because it's all I had.
Cinelli gel cork wrap because I traded for it, I'm not a gel wrap guy.
Stem/bar were purchased from a guy who had a $600 frame I wanted, but I could only afford the stem/bar.
Ultegra chain I bought with no pins, but I had an SRAM master link.

It really is made of spares, and maybe it's fitting that my frankenbike would be modern.
My steel stuff fits in my head, neatly. The modern stuff is more of random thoughts.

I'm about 1% away from having it dead quiet, if a carbon frame can be.
The Microshift items, well, they're light, is all I can say. A different feel.
18.33 lbs as you see it.

"Bored & out of ideas, apparently"

"Interesting idea for a thread"

now that that's settled here is my zeus that is 96.57% orignal, and the remainder to yield what I wanted to try out - a zeus city bike.

Just don't follow that with "hey, watch this!"

Then again, it could be spectacular....

To balance out the preponderance of garage queens being shown off on this thread, here's my '71 Raleigh Int'l, which I use for commuting year round:



Mix of SunTour, Shimano, Stronglight, Mavic, V-O, GB, Tektro, Wald, Weinmann, Brooks, and Panaracer. Now sporting an SP dynohub front wheel and LED lamp:

Sorry, my mistake; you never had any to begin with.

Every bike in the family fleet fits your profile.

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Ok, here's my Phillips fixy, stage one;

And then I changed the fenders and the saddle;