jamesdak 

I wanted a way to really show off my Italian Giordana steel road bike so I picked this up off Ebay. That's my LeMond on there right now as a "test". But the Giordana will go up there just as soon as I get it back from the shop.



That whole wall will get covered in cycling memorabilia.

Nachoman

Let me guess, you're not married.

Maelochs

Right on. My first thought when I saw the pic was "That's sweet, but how could I ever get my wife to go for it?"

corrado33

Shouldn't it be "drive side out?" (Just kidding, rack looks nice, bike even more so. )

Aubergine 

I must be lucky. My wife is content if there's only one bike blocking the coat closet near the front door.

jamesdak 

It's all in how you present it. The oak display is a perfect match to the oak furniture and looks so much better than the black metal stand I was using. Plus less clutter on the floor. Win/win!

OldTryGuy

Very nice!!!

Right side out, cranks in line with seat tube-right down, wheels with valves at 0600. Can't remember what rule number????

TriDanny47

To the OP - sweet setup, nice job!

Single guys can do what we like! My perspective as a happily never married no kids single for life guy ... Women come and go, bikes stay with you for the most part forever unless you total it in an accident or it's stolen.

Oh so many decades ago ... Ok very early 1990's, I took up cycling in a fairly serious way - had about 3 or 4 good years back then riding around my little corner of the Great Lakes/Midwest for exercise and to blow off steam while the world did its thing - such as riots in CA, war in Kuwait, an attempted coup d'etat in Moscow ... Spent a lot of quality time on the bike escaping the burdens of the world. Went out and bought an "expensive at the time for me" better bike my second season IIRC - Cannondale SM700, about a grand in spring of 1991.

Had this girlfriend at the time who got increasingly pissed about it ... I guess she couldn't understand why a young guy in his 20's would spend time riding a bike instead of spending time with her.

Happy to say ... I still got the Cannondale and I still love it.

As for the ex-girlfriend ... Don't know don't care.

JohnDThompson 

Shouldn't the drive side be facing out, though?

Maelochs

Bikes age better too ... and if you tried top stick your girlfriend on a shelf so she'd be out of the way and still look good ....

jamesdak 

Put it this way to see if anyone would notice the big gap between the chain rings. Testing a set of the Wickwerks 53/34 chain rings for a friend on it.

jamesdak 

So, like this?

bogydave

Oh my. His & hers !
Very slick!
Now you need to change the hat. LOL

OldTryGuy

My Paramount is a 1983 Waterford that my wife insisted that I get. My 2013 Giant Propel Advanced SL3 was my choice after wife insisted that I get the SL0. SL0 was only $5,000 more. Been married to love of my life for 42+ years. Most are not as fortunate as me.

SWEET and looking good, , but ........not quite there yet.......

Large front ring and small rear sprocket-indicates power , pedals horizontal-very hard to do, and valves should be straight plus centered within the limits of the writings on the tires.

YES, people call me anal.

jamesdak 

Actually, I wish I could find magenta bar tape to match the paint. Looks like I am stuck with white. And it needs skin wall tires still for the correct vintage look. Just trying to figure out what tires to use as this is a rider.

IrishBrewer

There's good reason for the practice of centering the valve stems on three tire name/logo. When you get a flat and remove the tube, you should try to locate the hole and thoroughly scrutinize that same area of the tire to make sure you don't still have some debris that could result in another flat.

Drive side out just makes sense but the rest is indeed OCD (or CDO for those of you who insist on alphabetical ordering).

Maelochs

Best advice I have heard about all that is to center the valve above the pressure recommendation ... for those of us maybe running different tires front and rear on different bikes, that will always be info we are looking for when changing a tire.

To be really OCD display purposes, shouldn't you hide the valves behind fork legs/seat stays and have the lettering at the bottom of the tires?

veganbikes

I like my Conti Grand Prix Classics. They aren't skinwall but are a nice tire with a decently classy look that will work well for 80s bikes.

Not that it will match up perfectly but Newbaums makes some nice cloth tape. I did a harlequin wrap on the old Cilo (and also on the Langster) and it looks real nice. It isn't easy to do but it is doable and if you can swing it go for a three color wrap (which is actually a 4 color wrap with one color repeated) I did three colors with white and eggplant at the bottom of the drops and then levers up I did black and eggplant.

jamesdak 

That is a nice look. And while researching them I see where Conti is doing the same with GP4000s now too. Thanks for the info.

Dave Cutter

For a few years I kept some sort of vintage bicycle hanging on the wall of my Home Office. The bicycles would rotate to the wall position before finding a new home. But particularly in the cold winter off season... I really enjoyed having the bike displayed on the wall. The nice wooden display rack looks much nicer than my stock metal version. Thanks for sharing your "look".

My wife is OK with what I do with "my" space. I recently converted the Office (I am retired now) into a man cave. A TV now takes the place where the bike was hung. I have room to use a trainer with the bike.... and watch cycling videos on the TV. I removed the desk and added some exercise equipment as well.

Come spring when I put the trainer in the closet..... I may re-hang a bike (on a different wall). Or... I might try one of those two-bike gravity racks. Whatever I do... I will continue to keep a clean vintage bike inside. I like the look and I like how it feels.

trailangel

Nice, but.. shouldn't there be a beer holder?

veganbikes

No problem. I love Conti, they make my favorite tires.

jamesdak 

Mine too, they ride nice and I never seem to flat. Sometimes I get amazed by all the cuts in the GP 4000s and yet they just keep rolling. Or the time I locked up a rear to avoid an accident. Got home over 10 miles later and found I had ground all the way through the rubber to the casing and yet no flat!

The Vittoria Open Pave CG I'm trying on my Lemond has already flattened once in the back after only maybe a months use. The jury is still out on that tire even though it does ride real nice with latex tubes. [h=1][/h]