You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby munga » Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:08 pm

whoa! me likey!

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby hitchhiker » Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:58 pm

Yep, I like the look of that Somec a lot

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby foo on patrol » Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:15 am

trackside wrote:Ok...talked with bill this morning.
This photo is after the 1963 Wagga Wheelrace.
Bill won it on the 5 star. ..2nd was Bill Lawrie and 3rd Herb Longhurst.
He mentioned a few other rides on it....winning his heat in the austral qualifying for the final....except Oscar Platner illegally through on the duck boards and was awarded the win when he should have been disqualified. Officials offered to set him an easy ride to re qualify because they wanted the world sprint champion in the final regardless. Dad told them to stick it up they're arse because he'd already qualified and if they weren't going to put him in the final now then he wasn't going to be there for the next opportunity. ...because he'd be in cootamundra racing. And that's exactly what happened.
Ok just went through the recording some more.
He said he won the Darling River Wheelrace on it, at Bourke.
That was the first major wheelrace he won on it....think he got another picture somewhere with him and as I remember the green satin sash...
He set a half mile track record on it at cootamundra off 5 yards.
Run 2nd in the Bendigo Golden Mile on it.
Led out Ken McCarthy for the last lap and a half holding off Barry Waddell, Graeme Gilmore and Joe Siovola. After the race Tasi Johnson said "you got too much start" bill replied "no they're not good enough to catch me " he reckons they were still in conflict from the sun tours (there may have been some revenge there because the scratchmen didn't want to include him in their joke...so bill went flying bicycles you formed up with Ken and took 1st and 2nd giving them a bigger split than the other 3 combined.
The year at the ANA Carnival with the grand prix. ...He said there were 6 wheelraces during the carnival. He won 4 of them but didn't qualify for the major. Wasted energy and he never did that again.
He showed promise early....as a 17 yo he won the QLD Senior 25 mile road title....He remembers Hubert Opperman's younger brother Bruce being in that one....1954.
He also won the QLD 10 mile track championship at Hawthorne park by more than a lap. ...being a paced race....took a lap and hit them again. Obviously not on that frame though.

He didn't get the opportunity to race this frame much as while working as a technician for the PMG (telecom/telstra)..He fell out of the roof at Reynolds chains in benalla and broke his back.
and that was game over....paralyzed for 3 months he eventually got to see Henry Crop who performed a laminectomy...with a 50/50 chance of success. ...and the odds fell in his favor. Still walking. .Andy hough the first hour of every day is a drag for him.
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You need to post all this stuff on The Cycling Scrapbook, Trackie on Facebook. There is some truly amazing history posted on there and a great insight to the past. :idea:

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby foo on patrol » Sat Sep 20, 2014 7:17 am

X3. 8)

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby trackside » Tue Sep 23, 2014 1:23 pm

Took me a while to extract it all from the old man....but know i have its story....i will through it all up.

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby Gyula » Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:27 pm

Hi everyone. I am new here. Just recently I got a protour 200 series road bike. Had a good bike more than 20 years ago
That I had to let go. This one sparked an old flame in me. I'll post some photos as soon as I work out how to post them.
Cheers.

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby Gyula » Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:42 pm

My first bike was a four speed chechoslovakian built "Favorit" . My old man bought it for me in late seventies. It could have been mid sixties made. Would love to still have it but it is long gone .

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby timdoughnut » Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:20 am

Gyula wrote:My first bike was a four speed chechoslovakian built "Favorit" . My old man bought it for me in late seventies. It could have been mid sixties made. Would love to still have it but it is long gone .
I'm sure someone on here would be able to point you in the right direction to find one, I've only been on here a few days but have been through about 100 threads and the diversity of bikes and people on here is amazing. Try your luck buddy
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby tooslowtorace » Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:36 pm

Here is my rebuilt ride, I've owned it since new in '95 and ridden pretty much everything possible on it; road races, crits, reliability trials, audaxs, spotifs, I've toured and trained on it in ice and snow. It is on it's third groupset but still has it's original paint and headset and after a bit of a diet is at it's lightest at 17.8lbs

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby ldrcycles » Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:43 pm

Gyula wrote:My first bike was a four speed chechoslovakian built "Favorit" . My old man bought it for me in late seventies. It could have been mid sixties made. Would love to still have it but it is long gone .

This thread has instructions on how to post photos- viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23303" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Favorit hubs are fairly common but i've never even heard of a complete Favorit bike. Hopefully one of the experts on here will be able to help though.

I had a ProTour a few years back, and it was a nice bit of gear.
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby Gyula » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:51 pm

Here are some photos(I hope:)) of my vintage.<div style="width:480px;text-align:right;"><embed width="480" height="360" src="http://pic2.pbsrc.com/flash/rss_slideshow.swf" flashvars="rssFeed=http://feed47.photobucket.com/albums/f1 ... 8/feed.rss" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" /><a href="javascript:void(0);" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/share/icons/ ... geturs.gif" style="border:none;" /></a><a href="http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f199/Gyula0408/" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/share/icons/ ... iewall.gif" style="border:none;" alt="Gyula0408's/albums/f199 album on Photobucket" /></a></div>

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby Gyula » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:16 pm

Maybe this will work.http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Gyula0408/library/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby AUbicycles » Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:58 pm

On photobucket, below share an embed click on IMG which copies the following.

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You then (unfortunately) have to stripe it back to have just the stuff between the IMG tags like this

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and that will give you this beauty

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby Gyula » Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:44 am

Thanks mate. I'll try it next time.

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby magilla0_2 » Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:13 am

Found this little number yesterday, 2 star Malvern Star, I think its 26".
Frame is good but crud paint, chain guard looks good.
Forks have got a bit of a bend in them can any one suggest how to fix this or recommend someone that can ?
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby Malvern lung » Thu Oct 09, 2014 2:51 pm

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Hey everybody I'm getting used to a lot of this but I think I got the link right could really use with some help on year and pica can't seem to find bugger all. Pretty sure she's s Malvern star think its one of the imports of the time

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby munga » Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:13 pm

how about we mod this thread a little and delete all the junk. this is meant to be a showcase thread, not a hard rubbish gallery
or maybe i need some sleep.

no offense to the hard rubbish collectors - you're doing a fine job rescuing stuff that would otherwise end up scrapped.

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby singlespeedscott » Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:01 am

I thought that's what this thread's about, scoring cracking bikes for next to nix?
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby elantra » Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:59 pm

tooslowtorace wrote: Image
That bike is just sooo clean - quite an achievement to get a bike as clean as that !

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby ldrcycles » Fri Oct 10, 2014 6:53 pm

singlespeedscott wrote:I thought that's what this thread's about, scoring cracking bikes for next to nix?
That would be the "hard rubbish and tip finds" thread.
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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby adam_b83 » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:42 pm

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sort of finished this guy. need to get the 600 ax to mavic montherly wheels built then it will be done!

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby rustychisel » Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:34 pm

adam_b83 wrote: sort of finished this guy. need to get the 600 ax to mavic montherly wheels built then it will be done!

Oh that's beautiful. Don't like the saddle position at all but that's just a pearl of a bike.

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby Gyula » Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:13 pm

adam_b83 wrote:Image
sort of finished this guy. need to get the 600 ax to mavic montherly wheels built then it will be done!
Very nice mate.

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby munga » Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:31 pm

much aeros! many fasts!

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Re: You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!

Postby ldrcycles » Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:13 am

+4, very cool.
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