A gifthorse's mouth.
 

Bought this yesterday for less than 200 $. A bit small for me but I had a 140 mm Goccia stem lying around that will make this bike next summers commuter for me. My old 8 speed DA Basso needs a new drivetrain badly, and this one seems to have quite some miles left before it needs anything. I did not see the dent in the downtube before I came home with the bike, but it does not seem to be critical. I will not race this one, just ride it to work and around town. It is a Norwegian DBS, mostly Chorus, rims Open 4 cd's and frame by Daccordi made of Nivachrome. Needs new cables, seat, hoods and tires.

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I just sold my catch of the day from last week, the GT Talera, for $150. I took the Serfas off, and put on a set of used Ritchey Moby bites. I got a bunch of hits at $125, but no one ever showed. I said WTH and jumped it to $150, and it sold in a couple of days. Sure am lovin the cash. Thanks Alex in the Green Mercedes SUV!!

I just got a Peuget PY-10 in carbon fiber. I think it's unique, but it was a bit pricey for me at $200. Though I guess it's a pretty good deal for what it is. I don't know, you guys tell me. Because I'd say 99% of people on this thread know more about bikes than me, haha.

I have nothing to contribute, but isn't hockeyteeth kind of a contradiction in terms?

That is a beauty, any idea of the year? I'd guess late '80s from the paint, nice find, was the owner a racer? I ask because $200 seems cheap to me.

The owner was a once female speedskater who said she bought it from a female road racer. She had long ago given up cycling, the tires are literally falling apart they are so rotten. I guess the bike is from the early nineties, I don't think they put the cable "guides" on the headtube in the eighties.

Those single-pivot marin's are very nice rides, probably every bit as good as any SP frame produced today. Stick an SPV or 5th element in that frame (and a Z1) and you'd have a great ride. Good luck finding a fork!

My catch of the day. On eBay, 1934 Sturmey-Archer TBF 2 speed fixed gear hub with drum brake. Cant wait for it to arrive and to build it up.

Bought this for ichi man (about $86 after yen --> $ conversion) in my small town of Nio-cho. It was actually a bike/scooter shop with scooter/motorcycle/car repair. Having just moved to Japan I was in desperate need of anything that wasn't a Japanese cruiser. The shop didn't have any real bikes and I don't speak Japanese. The old man went digging in his shed to pull this immaculate bike out. It looked as though it had been used for a couple months and thrown in storage. It at least from 1987 as there's an insurance sticker on it.

All Shimano 600 with BioPace chainrings. (Virtually no wear on any gears and chain measured like new)
Sansin Hubs (first letter D would also suggest '87) with unmarked tubular rims with panaracer tires (both held pressure for about 10 miles until the thread bubbled).
Working computer with cadance.

All weighing in at 22lbs.

This is probably the wrong forum to mention that I then stripped it and made it a fixie :D . I'll post a pic in the fixed thread next.

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I can't see your photo for some reason, but for the love of Eddy Merckx please tell us you didn't Dremel off the cable stops and such!

That's strange, I can see the pic.

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No power tools involved, but I did accidentallly crush the downtube shifter mounts. I thought these were threaded in, but maybe not? :(

It still isn't working, try imageshack.us to upload it, I'm intrigued.

Agreed. Also noted it is welded not lugged and has an ergo outfit which was introduced in the 90s.

My haul from yesterday.

1972 Raleigh Sports in only fair condition...
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1963? (SN = N008933) Columbia 5 speed with weird parts.
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Anybody want the Raliegh? I don't have space for it.

:eek: Is that one of thoase AMF Raleighs? Look at the oil puddle under it! :lol:

I'd take, but I low on room too. :(

Did I finally find something to brag about? I found this today while hitting the garage sales. It was parked near the staircase of an appartment. It was not locked up and obviously neglected, so I left a note at all the doors close by (there was nobody home at any of them). The guy called me within a few minutes and sold it to me for $20.

I'm not sure what to do with it. I was thinking of using the rims, brakes, bars, BB, Crankset and stem on my UO8, but I'm wondering if I would be better off selling the bike complete and buying the parts I need elsewhere. What would this bike be worth if I cleaned it up flipped it? What do you think the frame alone would be worth?

My other Peugeot
 

Here's the other bike, this one fits me. I bought it a week ago for $40. I am planning on doing a fixie with this one, perhaps with the parts from Peugeot in my previous post.

Centurion Super Le Mans
 

Coming back from a Target run with a trunk full of soda and toilet paper, My wife suggested we stop at a garage sale around the corner. I said, sure--I haven't been to a garage sale in years. Sitting at the end of the driveway when we pulled up: A Centurion Super Le Mans strapped into a Vetta trainer. The whole shebang was $30. I looked closer. Tange frame, Araya alloys with F&R Q/R, Suntour VX componentry, Dia-compe brakes, my size--SOLD. I didn't argue or haggle.

I've got it all cleaned up (it was full of dust and cobwebs) and aired up the tires--we'll see if they hold air (tires are 1 1/8 and rated to 100 psi). Took off the rack (Vetta) and fender (Weinmann) and re-set the brakes. Wheels spin smooth and true, and when I wiped the grease cake off the hubs, the "Sunshine" engraving showed up.

I know nothing about it, but I'm thinking this was a decent find. Here's pics. Anyone know anything about Centurion? Or how to work the Vetta trainer? Just roll on it?

EDIT: After reviewing some posts here regarding Centurion and Sheldon Brown's article, note that this has the Tange Champion No. 5 tubing, but uses the Suntour Vx componentry (not Shimano). I guess this was equivalent to Reynolds 531? Also, I believe this pegs it to the early 80s. And yes, that is a owners' manual hanging from the handlebars (no dates on it though).

I believe tange 5 is a relatively thick gauge tubing and I have only ever seen it used on mountain bikes but it makes sense to be used on a touring bike I suppose. I would bet that baby has hi-tensile stays also. so not even close to 531. Personally I wouldn't want a 531 touring frame, especially in my size (61-62cm) as it would about as stiff as a wet noodle.

I picked up this Sears today along with some parts I needed (and some I didn't) $25 for the whole lot. Made by huffy, but not complete crap, Araya rims... I put on some old white walls, It looks neat.
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Mos6502: Thats classy! Where you scoring all these bikes? And where did you get those white walls? I'd love to find a pair in that size.

Do you know the model name of that sears? Is it "sea pines" or something? I have the girls version like that, also in black, though the fenders arent pin stripped.

To a large extent, it depends on where you live, but I doubt you'll make more than a modest increase on it. Does that bike have two front wheels? At the very least, you'll need to put a freewheel on it.

The white walls are old - I actually got them off of another old Sears, an Austrian made one which was missing too many parts to be useful, but the tires were still good so I saved them.

This bike doesn't seem to have a model name, and strangely it has no serial number on the frame either - so maybe it's not a huffy - but the chain wheel, chain guard, and dropouts all look like Huffy components, though on closer inspection though the front fork is atypical for a Huffy, as are the seat-stays. I'm stumped. It's obviously not a Columbia, an AMF, or a Murray, but has no Huffy serial numbers ~ did Huffy ever stamp them anywhere other than the headtube or rear dropouts?

And yeah I got these last three bikes from the same person, I made a post about it in the craiglist finds thread, he even had a Jeunet for $10, which I'd take if it weren't way too tall for me - he also claims to have a Motobecane in much better condition (the jeunet has been sitting in his backyard in rainy WA for a few years). I may go back to him to get some more parts, but I've got enough complete bikes now.