Anyone build a faux vintage path racer type bike?
10-29-21, 09:13 PM
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Definitely a worthwhile project which provides a different riding experience. Mine is a 1964 Holdsworth Typhoon club racer set up as a single speed. It has the prerequisite mustache bars, leather grips & white tyres. Wheels are semi modern rims laced to Campagnolo Gran Sport hubs. Crankset is a cheapo Stronglight swaged arm alloy unit & brakes are Weinmann 500s activated by their “city” levers. Before Covid, I was riding it once a week. Now, I don’t get much time on it.
DONE
Cheers,
Van
DONE
Cheers,
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10-30-21, 10:01 AM
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so i think i've determined the donor frame for this project.. a gaspipe torpado that i couldn't figure out what to do with. i think i'll do gloss black rustoleum but mask off the chrome lugs and leave the head tube white as is with the riveted head badge. i have some black 1st gen dura ace hubs to lace up with black rims and black spokes, some cream colored 35/700c tires, a black ofmega mistral RD, single chainring front, but hbars and saddle undetermined right now.
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10-30-21, 10:24 AM
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so i think i've determined the donor frame for this project.. a gaspipe torpado that i couldn't figure out what to do with. i think i'll do gloss black rustoleum but mask off the chrome lugs and leave the head tube white as is with the riveted head badge. i have some black 1st gen dura ace hubs to lace up with black rims and black spokes, some cream colored 35/700c tires, a black ofmega mistral RD, single chainring front, but hbars and saddle undetermined right now.
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10-30-21, 10:30 AM
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i was going to use a moto grand record frame, but after looking at it this morning, i think i'll sell it. it's a bit too tall for me anyway. don't know the pedigree on this torpado... probably late 60's or early 70's boom bike. i got it dirt cheap because the seller thought it was a "torpedo" and not worth a trip to the dump. and after looking at my handy dandy "the vintage bicycle" book from steel vintage bikes, there are plenty of chromed lugs on bikes from the 30's onward.
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10-30-21, 04:36 PM
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choosing handlebars for this project is so difficult. and the soma website has a sale going on for a few days. oh, the pressure...
10-31-21, 07:55 PM
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Nice frame. I like where you're going with the wheels/tyres. If it were my frame, I wouldn't paint it, but that's me. Whatever gets you riding it. I would say, build it up and ride it before painting to make sue it fits.
10-31-21, 08:52 PM
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too late for the painting plans... not many days of acceptable temps for out of doors painting, so sanded and prepped it today, masking fluid arrives tomorrow for the lugs, and hoping for paint application monday through mid week before the november cold settles in. rustoleum gloss black enamel, with some clear coat if i don't do my usual and get impatient (or overconfident) and run the paint somewhere!
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Built this last year. I always put 24 tooth rear cogs on Raleighs to give them better hill climbing ability but you can go down to about 14 teeth if you really want to.
11-01-21, 09:09 AM
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i thought about keeping with a single speed but it's too hilly, so going to have to have at least 5 speeds. looking at my slowly growing collection box of parts, this bike is going to end up being blasphemous and no doubt an affront to to vintage puristas, but what the hell...
11-02-21, 11:57 AM
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well, as was no doubt totally predictable, i gaffed up the paint job. i must have been out sick on the day that Obi Wan was teaching patience. the rustoleum enamel gloss black went on beautifully, with no runs and actually quite glossy! i couldn't wait like the angel on my right shoulder was whispering in my ear ... had to listen instead to the devil guy on my other shoulder, so not even 24 hours had gone by and I applied rustoleum enamel clear gloss and right before my eyes, my beautiful paint job became something out of the post WW2 nuclear test at Bikini atoll, or a B&W photo of a dry lake bed on mars, or a really old elephant's testicles. so now having knocked the laughing little devil off of my shoulder (don't worry though, he'll be back i'm sure..), i'm ponding my next move.
1) i can just leave it as is and call it the old timey look and build the bike anyway as a monument to what impatience looks like
2) i can do item 1 but get out my modelers airbrush and paint some rusty brown here and there and repeat the old timey look mantra as if i really meant to have it look like that
3) strip the paint and try again next spring
4) take the carcass to the recycle bin at the dump well after dark while wearing a disguise.
no need for anyone to give me advise... i'm sure i won't listen.
time to head to the beer store....
1) i can just leave it as is and call it the old timey look and build the bike anyway as a monument to what impatience looks like
2) i can do item 1 but get out my modelers airbrush and paint some rusty brown here and there and repeat the old timey look mantra as if i really meant to have it look like that
3) strip the paint and try again next spring
4) take the carcass to the recycle bin at the dump well after dark while wearing a disguise.
no need for anyone to give me advise... i'm sure i won't listen.
time to head to the beer store....
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11-05-21, 10:01 AM
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well, as was no doubt totally predictable, i gaffed up the paint job. i must have been out sick on the day that Obi Wan was teaching patience. the rustoleum enamel gloss black went on beautifully, with no runs and actually quite glossy! i couldn't wait like the angel on my right shoulder was whispering in my ear ... had to listen instead to the devil guy on my other shoulder, so not even 24 hours had gone by and I applied rustoleum enamel clear gloss and right before my eyes, my beautiful paint job became something out of the post WW2 nuclear test at Bikini atoll, or a B&W photo of a dry lake bed on mars, or a really old elephant's testicles. so now having knocked the laughing little devil off of my shoulder (don't worry though, he'll be back i'm sure..), i'm ponding my next move.
1) i can just leave it as is and call it the old timey look and build the bike anyway as a monument to what impatience looks like
2) i can do item 1 but get out my modelers airbrush and paint some rusty brown here and there and repeat the old timey look mantra as if i really meant to have it look like that
3) strip the paint and try again next spring
4) take the carcass to the recycle bin at the dump well after dark while wearing a disguise.
no need for anyone to give me advise... i'm sure i won't listen.
time to head to the beer store....
1) i can just leave it as is and call it the old timey look and build the bike anyway as a monument to what impatience looks like
2) i can do item 1 but get out my modelers airbrush and paint some rusty brown here and there and repeat the old timey look mantra as if i really meant to have it look like that
3) strip the paint and try again next spring
4) take the carcass to the recycle bin at the dump well after dark while wearing a disguise.
no need for anyone to give me advise... i'm sure i won't listen.
time to head to the beer store....
Cheers,
Van
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11-05-21, 10:19 AM
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Inspired by the path racers, but not meant to look old. Metax stainless steel frame I built about 15 years ago I guess. Have a Champion Flyer sprung saddle on it now. Smooooth. It weighs about 20 pounds.
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[QUOTE=cocoabeachcrab;22285284]after reading with interest this thread.. How Rare Are 1900s - 1920s Road Bikes? , i was reminded of a covid lockdown project i was pondering... a faux vintage look alike but with easier to find components and frameset. i have an early 70's Moto grand record frame that is rough but undamaged, and had considered doing a weathered and aged paint job with lug lining to accent those nice lugs, maybe some Lauterwasser bars, a well worn leather saddle, that sort of look. no labels or decals on the frame, just going for an old timey look but easier to source parts for servicing. anyone have some inspiration pics of projects like this on this nor easter day for me to drool over?[/QUOTE
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Yes. I used a 68cm KHS with Soma Major Taylor bars and Nervar cottered cranks.
Here is the bike.
Here is the bike.
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02-23-22, 08:21 PM
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I've never posted it to this thread, but it fits the overall vibe. Unknown frame from the co-op with 55mm of bb drop. Dented in the toptube from where a bottle jack had been used to break a ulock look to have occurred before the powdercoat. NOS DeepVs from the same co-op trip laced with 1.8/1.5/1.8 spokes. 32mm rear tire, 35mm front is maxed out. Knockoff moustache bar. I think it's just under 20lbs. I have far too many bikes, but this is one of them I can't rationalize selling. Probably because it would be worthless to anyone but me.
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The Raleigh is not a single/fixed , Alfine 11, with upside down velo orange city bars
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