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Postby cray- » Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:07 pm
twowheels wrote:not mine ... maybe someone on this thread might like this Repco/Nishiki
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Vintage-Nishiki- ... dZViewItem
Bike looks strangely familair.....I like the price on mine better

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Postby stevendavid75 » Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:03 pm
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Repco-Superlite- ... dZViewItem
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Postby kukamunga » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:21 pm
kukamunga wrote:Ok, Repco-philes. Can you help me with the era of my most recent Repco pick up?
Heavy steel lugged road frame. Rear facing horizontal dropouts. 28.8 seat tube, 26.2 seatpost. Rear brake outer cable guides (x3) under top tube. Clamp-on 'huret' down tube shifters, front derailleur and 'Svelto' model rear derailleur, with clamp-on cable guides (x2). 'Nerva' crankset w/ bolt on 40/50 chainrings.
Purple paint work w/ gold and white pinstriping, gold 'REPCO' on down tube. Logos on head tube and seat tube feature a white bird of prey (eagle?) with wings up/outstretched, perched in a gold ring (red background) with a crown on top and gold scroll beneath. Various white, gold and red background on logo.
Steel drop bars, SR alloy stem, Weinmann 730 s/p brakes, are, I imagine, later upgrades to bike. No wheels.
Any ideas?
Finally, some piccies!!!









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Postby HappyHumber » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:16 pm
Any indication of what sort of steel the frame maybe? hi-ten/cro-mo/tange?
The lugwork reminds me of that scene in 'The Castle' where Darryl points out the wrought iron-work under his eaves is actually plastic.

I thought it quite unusual its got rear facing drop-outs, to.
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Postby WyvernRH » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:42 pm
kukamunga wrote:Hmmm.... 2 weeks and no reply. Bump it up
I only kust noticed this one, not generally being a REPCO type of guy but this one looks really interesting. It could be quite old, say late 50's early 60's. The frame and lugs look nicely made and the sweep on those forks suggests they are made of something better than mild steel

If we assume this age period then the chainset/gears would be middle range stuff and rear facing dropouts the norm.
I think its quite a nice bike!

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Postby Kid_Carbine » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:03 pm
Im sure some whacked out fixed wheel freak would think it a godsend & he'd be right, this would make up into a very nice single speed ride, fixed or freewheel.
The age? Possibly mid 60's in my estimate.
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Postby kukamunga » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:37 pm

EDIT: Oh, are all fixed wheeled riders 'whacked out freaks', or just some?


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Postby Kid_Carbine » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:07 pm
kukamunga wrote:Ok, thanks. But what about the components, especially the archaic 'svelto' rear derailleur? Any ideas?A friend of mine has a big book about the history of derailleurs. I should chase him up.
EDIT: Oh, are all fixed wheeled riders 'whacked out freaks', or just some?![]()
Hang on, I'll check my dictionary of 'whacked out freaks'
Hmmmmm, that's interesting, ............. oh, didn't know that before, ...... well well, I never, ...... oh wow, ........... Bloody 'ell, I wouldnt'a thought that, ........ Oh, I see.
Well, on the important question, it says, .... "pretty much"

As for the derailleurs, I think that reference to your mates book would be a good idea.
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Postby 531db » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:32 pm
kukamunga wrote:Ok, thanks. But what about the components, especially the archaic 'svelto' rear derailleur? Any ideas?A friend of mine has a big book about the history of derailleurs. I should chase him up.
EDIT: Oh, are all fixed wheeled riders 'whacked out freaks', or just some?![]()
You have a Huret Svelto rear derailleur, introduced in 1962/1963 as a replacement for the Huret Tour de France model, manufactured until the mid 1970's when the vastly superior offerings from Suntour and Shimano led to it's demise.
Postby MountGower » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:07 pm
The most potential I have seen from a Repco. I would be interested to hear back about the weight of the bare frame and also the fork. Not because I am a weenie, but just to assess the quality of the tubing.
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Postby ukalipt » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:43 pm
kukamunga wrote: Oh, are all fixed wheeled riders 'whacked out freaks', or just some?![]()
all > most?
i may be way out of line here, but here is my 2 cents worth.
maybe it isn't a repco? [i am now in the "duck" position]
possibly someone at a later stage in the bikes life added the repco decals.
kukamunga, does the type look as though it has been hand painted on?
i am so not an expert but most bikes i have seen with hand painted decals
have rarely had a full slab san serif font.
it does seem like a very weird mix graphically to have
such fine pin striping with a full slab almost "plastered" over the top.
just a thought????
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Postby kukamunga » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:37 am



My initial description of 'heavy steel road frame' is probably incorrect. The seat tube (28.8 ) and seat post sizes (26.2) I gave (assuming I measured correctly) give an idea that this aint a real heavyweight, and just look at those slender stays!

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Postby Kid_Carbine » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:15 am
kukamunga wrote:(no 'Imperial' measurements please!)?
Why not? The bike was built in the Imperial measurement era, it was built to Imperial dimensions & I was expected to learn all this metric stuff cold turkey [it wasn't taught at school] so perhaps it's time for the metric generation to learn a bit about the real world.
Lesson 1.
The main triangle tubing is either 1" or 1-1/8". See, nothing hard about that.
Just divide 1" by two, then again by 2 & on untill you have 16ths couldn't be easier.
The Number 3 seat pin [26.2?] was normally seen in 'good' frames. With some luck you mis-measured & it's really a Number 4 seat pin [26.8] which was used in 'better' frames. Number 5 seat pins [27.2] would be seen in the 'best' frames, frequently Teynolds 531 double butted.
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Postby WyvernRH » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:22 pm
possibly someone at a later stage in the bikes life added the repco decals.
kukamunga, does the type look as though it has been hand painted on?
i am so not an expert but most bikes i have seen with hand painted decals
have rarely had a full slab san serif font.
it does seem like a very weird mix graphically to have
such fine pin striping with a full slab almost "plastered" over the top.
just a thought????[/quote]
Looking again, this might be a pretty good idea. The head and seat tube transfers look VERY much like the "generic" transfers that bike shops could buy and apply to their creations, hand painting the shop details on the scrollwork etc. The hand applied paint tends to fade and vanish before the transfer disintegrates. I have a couple of bikes with the remains of this type of transfer as does Cludance I believe.
If this is so I wouldn't have thought a big company like Repco would have used generic transfers but have their own printed?
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Postby kukamunga » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:19 pm
Kid_Carbine wrote:kukamunga wrote:(no 'Imperial' measurements please!)?
Why not? The bike was built in the Imperial measurement era, it was built to Imperial dimensions & I was expected to learn all this metric stuff cold turkey [it wasn't taught at school] so perhaps it's time for the metric generation to learn a bit about the real world
I was born in 1963 and was taught both imperial and metric in my younger years at public schools. My father and I were both fitters and turners. The garage at my mums still contains jars and draws full of BSW, UNC, UNF, BSF...... nuts, bolts, taps, dies..... but also metric stuff.
Fast forward to 2008 - the 'metric age'



And it's easier, for me, to remember 26.2mm seat post and 28.8mm seat tube to whatever imperial equivalent they might be. And what's with guage? 14G spokes are thicker than 15G spokes.... where's the logic in that?

I take it you've read this before

All these odd-numbers, fractions and discrepancies equate to a very difficult system to learn. The standard homo sapien has ten digits on their hands (and ten on their feet). What a sensible number to base an international system of measurement on!
We (earthlings) are more rapidly technologising ourselves into extinction at an ever accelerating rate thanks to the metric system!!! Ten cheers for the metric system. Hip-hip.......



Oh, and by the way. My kitchen scales are metric

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Postby Kid_Carbine » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:45 pm
MountGower.......... 2.4kg/ 700gm
MichaelB...............2.65kg/ 840gm
K.C. .....................3.68543kg [or more] Combined mass frame & fork, bare. [130oz]
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