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Magneet Sprinter
got this today for $25.00
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...10511-1719.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...10511-1820.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...10511-1820.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...10511-1821.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...10511-1820.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...10511-1821.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...10511-1821.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...10511-1903.jpg I don't know much about it other than it has horizontal dropouts and had some sort of tubeless 700 tires. |
I also don't know how to get the crankset off
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sell it back for $15 and call it a day.
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Originally Posted by just dank
(Post 12630004)
I also don't know how to get the crankset off
Also, those are tubular (sewup) tires that you glue onto the rims. Those are totally shot, but you can buy serviceable economy replacements for about $25 each. |
Aero fork crown yummy
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Wow nice find! I see a lot of potential with some elbow grease.
And ZOMG 1st edition chub hub!?!?! Seriously that's what first popped into my head when I saw that rear hub. |
That's a really sweet find!
Relevant info I found in C and V: I actually own a Magneet; model "sprint". Because I actually have one, I know a bit about the company. The original company produced bicycles until 1969, where-upon the Magneet company was bought out by the larger Dutch manufacturer Batavus, the spelling of which I believe I have just mangled badly. Batavus produced bikes under the Magneet name until about 1972. Most of the Magneets were city bikes. I bought mine at an auction for a fiver, attracted by the odd nameplate, the Campagnolo mechs and shifters, the wild seat, and the very cool old wignuts for the hubs. It's too small for me; if it were my size I'd have built it up by now into a fixie or something. Nothing special, although the paint is very good. I think mine dates from the Batavus (?) period, because the Campy Gran Turismo derailleurs weren't made until 1970, near as I can figure (they might be later upgrades; but the GTs are very low end Campy, so it is possible they were stock). It has "racer" brakes (a Mafac knock off, I believe), cottered cranks, the same lugs and paint scheme as yours. Steel rims. Somewhere on-line there are some Magneet brochures from far earlier than either of our bikes; I looked and couldn't find them again, but I gave a fairly cursory google search. What I've been able to find suggests the bike was threaded French, though I have yet to take mine apart and actually find out. I'd have built it into a fixie for someone else, but it's a cool frame, so I may build it up for my next girlfriend or something. |
Really like the frame! Should be good with some elbow grease like someone else said.
The crank is pretty neat looking too, i'd try to get some Alum polish and go to town on it! |
That's one cool bike! I love the vintage decals.
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Sweet find. Keep us posted on how it turns out for you.
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Cant be certain, but it looks like the fork blades may be bent, something worth checking.
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Originally Posted by Kayce
(Post 12630747)
Cant be certain, but it looks like the fork blades may be bent, something worth checking.
That's a great looking bike, btw. Polish up those cottered cranks if you can find replacement pins and keep it classy. |
I'd love to keep it old. Unfortunately the paint was **** on it, and I've spent all night taking it off. Will paint it purple again as a bike for my gf
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Go to a local Sherwin Williams paint store, buy a tub of wood bleach. It'll be crystalized, looks like large rock salt. The key ingredient is Oxalic acid. Mix like 1 tbs per gallon of water, and let all rusty parts soak over night. it will completely get rid of the rust.
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Originally Posted by stryper
(Post 12631030)
Go to a local Sherwin Williams paint store, buy a tub of wood bleach. It'll be crystalized, looks like large rock salt. The key ingredient is Oxalic acid. Mix like 1 tbs per gallon of water, and let all rusty parts soak over night. it will completely get rid of the rust.
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Originally Posted by striknein
(Post 12631073)
Too late. He already trashed it.
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Originally Posted by striknein
(Post 12631073)
Too late. He already trashed it.
Originally Posted by just dank
(Post 12630891)
I'd love to keep it old. Unfortunately the paint was **** on it, and I've spent all night taking it off. Will paint it purple again as a bike for my gf
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that bike was beautiful, nothing too special but a unique paint job with some real character, would have looked amazing with a good cleaning and some polish, it'll still make a good bike, just a shame you had to start to learn stripping and painting on something old and pretty, good luck with it
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Even badly worn original paint looks better on a vintage bike. The paint on this early 1970s Mercier was in pretty bad shape, probably worse than the OP's, but I'm glad I just cleaned it as best I could and left it alone.
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I've been around bikes for a long time, I worked as a bike mechanic throughout high school. Definitely not my first time stripping and painting. Wish I could have left the paint but it was literally scratching off with no effort. Rust wasn't the issue. It could have been a repaint as when I took off the sticker there was red paint with white primer underneath. I will repaint it purple though as I liked it.
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Originally Posted by just dank
(Post 12633095)
I worked as a bike mechanic throughout high school
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Originally Posted by just dank
(Post 12633095)
i worked as a bike mechanic throughout high school but i was too stoned to remember much of it.
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OP was a mechanic, yet was perplexed on a cottered crank and
(in his words)some sort of tubeless tires? |
Originally Posted by seventythree
(Post 12634146)
OP was a mechanic, yet was perplexed on a cottered crank and
(in his words)some sort of tubeless tires? |
not everyone works in a shop where cottered cranks and tubeless tires are common knowledge. they can still know the ins and out of a bike pretty damn well. i did service/builds in a shop for a year in high school. can I build a bike, true a wheel, service almost anything? yes. can i work on the suspension of a 15k mtb, do anything w tubeless wheels, or build a wheel from scratch? no. it was a shop in the suburbs of a city, none of that stuff ever came through. would i ever take my bike there for something i didn't know how to do? no.
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