Ultimate Bike Thread....

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

First good sweat of the year. It's been chilly here. Mid-70 yesterday.

That trail looks like a lot of fun.
This showed up on Facebook marketplace.

[CurtEgerer]

^^^ That's a great deal on a Pinarello!

edit: that's just an OK deal. After finding the ad, it would need the correct hubs (and possibly rims), stem, brake levers, and handlebars to make it 'right'. I think the decal set is readily available. Cosmetics could be cleaned up quite a bit. But for $1000-1200 one could probably find one in 'needs nothing' excellent condition.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

Looks pretty. And scary.

That derailleur, on the other hand, is jewelry.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

^^^ That's a great deal on a Pinarello!

edit: that's just an OK deal. After finding the ad, it would need the correct hubs (and possibly rims), stem, brake levers, and handlebars to make it 'right'. I think the decal set is readily available. Cosmetics could be cleaned up quite a bit. But for $1000-1200 one could probably find one in 'needs nothing' excellent condition.



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I thought you might appreciate it, maybe make an offer on it, since like most of us, you don’t have enough projects. And I agree, the pictures you posted are definitely true “Art”, and I remember when everyone was drilling out everything (including me) to save some ounces ..

On the other end of the spectrum .
A knock off of a 80s RedLine RL II.
I know, why in the hell would I have “that”, considering my collection.
Mr BMX makes knock offs of many BMX bikes, it was brought up on a few BMX forums. At the time, he was doing Hutch Trick-Star freestyle frame set. Obviously, people were questioning the quality and how close to the real thing. I offered, if he sent me one, that I could compare it to mine, and since I have had a lot of actual riding time as well as owning several and still having one.




Well, he offered to give me one, if I paid for shipping.
BITD, I would test bikes for a few distributors, and thought it would be fun.
I sent the money for the shipping and then nothing, he forgot about the arrangement, and moved on to the next thing project. I said no problem, just refund me the money I paid for shipping. Well, he didn’t want to refund me, but offered me a RedLine instead. I pointed out that I don’t have the same experience with the RL II, and couldn’t give the same experience as with the Hutch.





I wasn’t expecting the handlebars that I call”FakeLifter”, since they are copies of the 80$ RedLine “Fork Lifter”, they were not cheap in the 80s and are really not cheap now.
And , I just happen to have a set on my 20” race bike from the 80s so I can at least compare those. Obviously I won’t be using anything valuable vintage parts, fortunately there is plenty of components being rereleased by the original manufacturers , so No vintage parts will be sacrificed on this experiment.

[CurtEgerer]

[CurtEgerer]

WTH???

[herr_oberst]

^

Just a plastic fairing on an alu rim. A Mavic thing from back in the day. It doesn't even look like c/f...

I'd still be miffed.

[Racerbvd]

[Racerbvd]

[sc_rufctr]

From Sir Richard

[LEAKYSEALS951]

More progress on the Xi Zinping express. Got some rivenuts and mounted a braze on type front derailleur clamp and a 3rd water bottle mount to the downtube.


The downtube was scary thin, so I added some layers of CF, which is drying as we speak. Add some packing tape, baseboard electric heat, and viola! The bike is becoming alive!!!!

[greglepore]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

More progress on the Xi Zinping express. Got some rivenuts and mounted a braze on type front derailleur clamp and a 3rd water bottle mount to the downtube.


The downtube was scary thin, so I added some layers of CF, which is drying as we speak. Add some packing tape, baseboard electric heat, and viola! The bike is becoming alive!!!!

I have just the saddle for that bike...either a carbon flite or a slightly damaged Berk that you can repair...

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by greglepore

I have just the saddle for that bike...either a carbon flite or a slightly damaged Berk that you can repair...

Sweet! Rain stopped- going for shakedown spin.

[Racerbvd]

[look 171]

Bryon, tell me about those phone numbers? Only 5 digits with a hyphen after the first number? Is that how they use to do this?

[herr_oberst]

Byron, Where did you get those dubraes?

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by look 171

Bryon, tell me about those phone numbers? Only 5 digits with a hyphen after the first number? Is that how they use to do this?

That’s a phone book for 1951 Jacksonville Florida .
I forget how it works , but that’s where the Brumos name came from.

[Jeff Higgins]

Try to ignore the crusty old curmudgeon squinting and trying to see the screen on his phone...

Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Schwinn is looking good! I wish we had a velodrome on near us. ^

Snow day today. All about process. Wanted to try some yellow/amber shellac. The tape started off yellow, became honey brown. Still too yellow for my taste. I went darker and added cordivan leather dye. Now it's a dark red/brown. Almost a burgundy. Looks better in person. That's a day long process to make something that's gonna get it's arse covered in dirt in the first ride.






Also mounted road/gravel width cranks into wide mtb width bottom bracket. Not easy task. Much redneckifying later, it actually works!






Now to wait for the snow to melt!

[LEAKYSEALS951]