You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby ldrcycles » Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:55 pm
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby minhyy » Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:06 pm
wobbling - couldn't say that I have so far, but then again I think the fastest I've hit on this bike is mid 50s and did not experience anything peculiar at that speed. Will mention if it does wobble later on. Are you still using the original VP headset on it?ldrcycles wrote:Have you ever noticed any wobbling from the front end of your Samurai? I've got one hanging in the shed at the moment but both myself and my brother found it to be quite skittish at high speed.
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby duncan16v » Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:52 pm
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby familyguy » Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:58 am
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby hillchaser » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:13 pm
I recently joined the retro crew and picked up this Paconi. It has campa drop outs and cranks (not sure what type) and a serial number under the BB that looks something like 810 40 . The back hub is cooked I think and the shifters aren't working but I'll gradually fix all that and have heaps of fun riding it as a single speed since I can't change. I love the bike and still trying to work out if I should go to a black seat or keep the Yellow Bassano. Would be keen to see what others think would work....but overall I'm really happy with my little piece of aussie history.
On a final note I live near Braeside in Victoria and I rode down the Paconi factory last week hoping to get Kevin to Id the frame and hopefully confirm it was a Paconi. However it is closed for a few months as he is not well. So would love to hear how one goes about identifying a frame like this.
Would love to post images but can't see how to attach them .. Please let me know how I can do this.
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby singlespeedscott » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:39 pm
It looks much nicer with the traditional bend handlebars.familyguy wrote:I've already made another change...switched to Cinelli 64-42 (Giro D'Italia) bars once I had some time to make the Campag ergo's play nice with the shape. The anatomic Cinelli Touch were just too weird and too big. I just wish the camera would catch the right colour of this bike, it's not that blue!
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby familyguy » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:34 pm
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby ldrcycles » Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:19 pm
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby singlespeedscott » Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:47 pm
Nothing wrong with Tange 2. Good stuff. My GEFSCO is Tange 2 and the 24" frame is less then 2kg. The whole bike built up is just on 9kg with 10 speed Campagnolo and a heavy Brooks Pro saddle.
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby minhyy » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:08 pm
if anyone has a 24mm seatpost lying around........
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby ldrcycles » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:19 pm
It's both very comfortable and responsive, and it's a hell of an improvement in weight over the Mercier but still quite sluggish climbing once the momentum runs out. Maybe Geoff knew how to get the best out of Tange . I haven't weighed the bare frame but i'd be very surprised if it was less than 2.1.
Minhyy, it is, and there's another foot or more still in the frame! What length 24mm seatpost do you need?
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You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby singlespeedscott » Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:07 pm
ldrcycles wrote:55cm square, I was actually going to take a photo with the very long seatpost at max height just to give you conniptions but I got the height spot on and couldn't be bothered .
Actually your small frames have inspired me to do something similar with a Technotrats built bike I picked up the other day.
It's a 56 square frame built from Columbus Gara, a plain gauged chromoly. Nothing flash but it's got some nice tyre clearance and I think between that and the strong tubing it would be perfect for this years Noosa Strada Bianchi ride. It will be a bit of a drop to the bars but should be great for powering up the dirt climbs.
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby Lots of steel bikes » Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:22 pm
Looks like we should have a separate thread 'Tall people on small bikes'. I usually ride a 62 with a short top tube. This ones a 54 but fits well.singlespeedscott wrote:ldrcycles wrote:55cm square, I was actually going to take a photo with the very long seatpost at max height just to give you conniptions but I got the height spot on and couldn't be bothered .
Actually your small frames have inspired me to do something similar with a Technotrats built bike I picked up the other day.
It's a 56 square frame built from Columbus Gara, a plain gauged chromoly. Nothing flash but it's got some nice tyre clearance and I think between that and the strong tubing it would be perfect for this years Noosa Strada Bianchi ride. It will be a bit of a drop to the bars but should be great for powering up the dirt climbs.
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby rheicel » Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:35 pm
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Postby rheicel » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:04 pm
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Postby hillchaser » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:58 pm
Here are my photoshillchaser wrote:Hi all,
I recently joined the retro crew and picked up this Paconi. It has campa drop outs and cranks (not sure what type) and a serial number under the BB that looks something like 810 40 . The back hub is cooked I think and the shifters aren't working but I'll gradually fix all that and have heaps of fun riding it as a single speed since I can't change. I love the bike and still trying to work out if I should go to a black seat or keep the Yellow Bassano. Would be keen to see what others think would work....but overall I'm really happy with my little piece of aussie history.
On a final note I live near Braeside in Victoria and I rode down the Paconi factory last week hoping to get Kevin to Id the frame and hopefully confirm it was a Paconi. However it is closed for a few months as he is not well. So would love to hear how one goes about identifying a frame like this.
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Postby find_bruce » Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:43 pm
Nice bike hillchaser. You are close on linking to the pics - flicker makes it easy to post your pics, you just need to choose "grab the bb code"hillchaser wrote:Here are my photoshillchaser wrote:Hi all,
I recently joined the retro crew and picked up this Paconi. It has campa drop outs and cranks (not sure what type) and a serial number under the BB that looks something like 810 40 . The back hub is cooked I think and the shifters aren't working but I'll gradually fix all that and have heaps of fun riding it as a single speed since I can't change. I love the bike and still trying to work out if I should go to a black seat or keep the Yellow Bassano. Would be keen to see what others think would work....but overall I'm really happy with my little piece of aussie history.
On a final note I live near Braeside in Victoria and I rode down the Paconi factory last week hoping to get Kevin to Id the frame and hopefully confirm it was a Paconi. However it is closed for a few months as he is not well. So would love to hear how one goes about identifying a frame like this.
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20140201_102939 by Threepwood1, on Flickr
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby hillchaser » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:50 pm
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby PANZR » Sun Feb 09, 2014 2:52 pm
I finally got my recently renovated Pinny on the road
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby Miyata_912 » Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:53 pm
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Postby adam_b83 » Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:13 am
very nice panzr!PANZR wrote:I finally got my recently renovated Pinny on the road
i recieved my newest project a few weeks ago. needs new decals and a cut and polish.
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby PANZR » Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:37 am
You have some incredible bikes Adam
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