^^^^ Curious what kind of $$ they're asking? Super cool!

$1800? At that price it would need some market research.

Yes! Now that you mention it, I remember hearing that very same thing and had forgot about it :cool:

Oh yeah, GEL up front is asking for it with two cross wheel. It needed constant truing but I only used them on race days. I had a set of GL 330 laced up to a brand new set of Super Record hubs (I think they are the exactly the same as Nuovo record). I decided to have a shop take off the hubs and rreplace with DA so I can use their casette. In the end, they were too busy and too slow and it ended up lost. I never found them. It was brand new from about 1989. It would have been a perfect match to my Casati. Yep, 14-19 Suntour Ultra 6 speed with a 42x52 crank. I rode Regina CX freewheel for a few years and they are durable then the Regina America came out, it lasted one season. Even had the alum few wheels, lasted also one season. Those Ultra 6 or 7s are damn good and durable too. Never broke one even after they were abused for several years.

My daily commute:
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There is one in Broward at Picolo

Recently spent some time at the homestead to visit family and while there shipped my old bike back to Cali ahead of me. Gonna refresh/restore the old girl. Been hanging in my parents’ garage for the last 45 years. I need to source a replacement seat. I tore the original back when I performed a redneck chopper mod on it.

Going to clean it up, try and keep the original frame paint and patina while having the chrome re-done. Hopefully the rear slick can be saved. Put a lot of miles on this thing and the front tire should probably be replaced. We’ll see. Can’t recall now whether it had a front fender. I suspect it did and that it succumbed to the chopper mod as well.:D

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Came apart for shipping far easier than I suspected it would.

Amazon is your friend. Many different sources available these days.

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This is quite possibly the worst instructional YouTube video I've ever seen.
I take that back. This video is by far and away the biggest waste of time I've had in a long time.
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The setup; I needed to figure out how to release the brake calipers on a Campy Record bike to swap out tires for a friend.

This video is 4 and a half minutes of absolute horseshirt to explain what could be filmed in five seconds. The shots of the chain movement almost made me send this guy a box of dog**** to his home just on principle. ( I would never really do that_ )

Un-freaking-be-leeve-able.

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On my 1996 era record, there is a button on the levers you push in to release them, is that the same on the newer stuff too?

Yep. It's super easy, when you know. I've always only had Sram/Shimano...so I never knew!

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couple morehttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1697419593.jpg
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pm me if you want more pics. I can email them to you. If you are still interested, we can talk a bit over the phone. Good thing about Merlin is that original stickers can still be had.

^^^ That is absolutely gorgeous. :eek: PM sent.

I was peaking in the window of Mike Wolfe's (American Pickers) private garage in downtown Columbia, Tennessee Thursday and spotted this. A very early track bike. Looked like a wood rim on the front.

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Thanks Byron.

Yeah beginning to investigate sources. Interesting what I’ve learned about the Spyder bikes in the last week or so. Some US made, some Austrian. Single piece vs three piece cranks. The front tire of mine is a Swedish Trelleborg. The rear slick is a no name Japanese tire. Can’t reconcile the SN stamped on the drop out to either a Sears model or a Murray SN.

I recall it being a rear coaster only from new but, there’s an itch to add period features that it never had in my youth, LOL. Guess we never get tired of that kind of thing,,,, both tires are to dry rotted to use so, I’ll most likely source new repos. Can’t see trying to find usable original tires.

As cool as the old Schwinn muscle bikes are, I’m glad that I’m not restoring one, haha. The Porsche hobby is enough of a dollar suck, ha!

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So, this:
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Or this:
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1998 Selle Italia saddle catalog:

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I wound up buying the 2007 Tarmac Pro. Too good a deal to pass on + I found Specialized's frame sizing chart and, at 5'9", I am in the fit window for a 56cm. Don't fully understand that because on a conventional steel bike I'd have to slam the saddle down to the top tube to ride it :confused: I did what I could do as far as fit but the bike never felt right on several short test rides Eventually, I discovered it wasn't the frame but the handlebars - far too wide and far too much reach. Bought some 38cm 3T compact bars and a shorter stem and ... voila. Still may try a zero offset seatpost as well but fit is very good right now. I used to set all my bikes up with a tip of saddle to center of handlebars dimension. That doesn't account for reach. Now I do tip of saddle to tip of brake hoods.

The bike had been ridden fairly hard and the PO was a pure rider. There are 3 kinds of cyclists: riders who view bikes as tools only, guys who love the bikes but don't really ride much, and those who are both. So I stripped this bike down to the frame and started with polishing compound and a buffer. Got out all the scratches and scuffs. The frame probably looks better than new at this point. Tires were shot, so new rubber. Cable housings are cracking so those will be replaced (that's why I didn't cut them to length for the shorter reach bars yet). All Dura Ace gruppo save for a 2011 Ultegra crank (no, it's not in the recall). Apparently, the bike had a triple crank originally because the derailleur is still a triple - need to replace that. This pic was after my first proper shakedown ride on it today. About 20 miles.




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