Showroom '89 Basso! Build or sell?
07-07-07, 11:36 AM
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Showroom '89 Basso! Build / sell / hang?
Just came across this, but I'm having trouble with the idea of actually riding it...it's too gorgeous! Chrome and paint are perfect and I'd be sick if I dinged something...
What would you do?
What would you do?
07-07-07, 11:38 AM
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A beautiful bike is still just a bike. Ride the **** out of it!
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07-07-07, 12:05 PM
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buit it with Campagnolo vintage parts ... with GEARS! don't convert it to FG
07-07-07, 12:14 PM
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Why is this thread even here? If you build that as a fixed gear,
I will personally come to where you live, steal your bike, rebuild
it with a full Campy gruppo, and return the bike to you promptly
upon payment.
So just take care of it. If I had that, it would be a weekend rider,
or something I parked safely in the back room or in my office at
work. If you don't leave it locked up, it shouldn't get any dings,
but it definitely deserves to be ridden.
I will personally come to where you live, steal your bike, rebuild
it with a full Campy gruppo, and return the bike to you promptly
upon payment.
So just take care of it. If I had that, it would be a weekend rider,
or something I parked safely in the back room or in my office at
work. If you don't leave it locked up, it shouldn't get any dings,
but it definitely deserves to be ridden.
07-07-07, 12:27 PM
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people are stupid. if you want to build it fixed do it. just don't doing anything dumb like hack off the braze ons and there's no problem. i ride a nice road frame like that as a fixed gear and love it (personally my feeling is the bike gods are way more offended by njs track frames on the road anyway).
07-07-07, 12:29 PM
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C-Record. You've already got the DT shifters and headset.
07-07-07, 01:04 PM
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Build it right with a Campy road gruppo and ride the ever-loving **** out of it.
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07-07-07, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by gargiulo.mike
ride it into the ground
07-07-07, 01:15 PM
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At least a victory groupo. Preferably c-record. Looks like early ninties?
[edit:And as said before, if you do ride it fixed, for the love of god (or whoever owns it after you) don't cut off any braze-ons. I'm pretty pissed that I got a sweet 60's english path racer frame that someone decided to cut the deraileur hanger off of. Not that I would have used it, but still...]
[edit:And as said before, if you do ride it fixed, for the love of god (or whoever owns it after you) don't cut off any braze-ons. I'm pretty pissed that I got a sweet 60's english path racer frame that someone decided to cut the deraileur hanger off of. Not that I would have used it, but still...]
07-07-07, 01:18 PM
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Probably still in the eighties, judging by the horizontal dropouts.
07-07-07, 02:31 PM
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my buddy rides an old basso with chromes fork/lugs it has the bent tt and st and it makes for a beautiful conversion...just dont you ever hack of any braze-ons. that way it can always be setup with gear later if wanted.
07-07-07, 05:15 PM
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rattlecan that, hack off the braze-ons, fix it and give it a full groupo de nashbar.
07-07-07, 05:24 PM
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Bulletproof cranks, suicide hub, tt protector, track bars, and Oury grips.
Then throw a kickstand on there and wait for everyone else to catch on.
You might consider powdercoating in flat black. Grrrrr.
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Bulletproof cranks, suicide hub, tt protector, track bars, and Oury grips.
Then throw a kickstand on there and wait for everyone else to catch on.
You might consider powdercoating in flat black. Grrrrr.
07-07-07, 07:47 PM
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If you're stressed about dinging it, either get over it, or sell it and get a bike you can live with.
I just traded a bike I loved too much, because I worried about riding it in the rain, locking it up, etc. It was lovely, but riding it stressed me out. Traded it for a cyclocross bike (Nobilette!) that I plan on racing this fall.
I just traded a bike I loved too much, because I worried about riding it in the rain, locking it up, etc. It was lovely, but riding it stressed me out. Traded it for a cyclocross bike (Nobilette!) that I plan on racing this fall.
07-07-07, 09:23 PM
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GEARS! like more than 1 of them