Older road bikes
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Older road bikes
Postby Ph billet » Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:24 am
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby humanbeing » Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:56 pm
Enjoy your classic, it'll be around long after all the chinese carbon frames are in landfill.
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Postby AverageSpeed » Sun Jan 27, 2013 1:35 pm
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby Wal42 » Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:42 pm
If there's not something similar in Sydney, why don't you organise something for fellow local retro riders.
Munga (up here in Brisbane) got some special Retro Riders jersey's done for a group of us up here, he was looking for people interested in getting some if he organised another printing. The jersey's are good quality, fairly cheap (when you consider the price that is charged for some of the better quality gear), he was removing the local Brisbane bits, so maybe you can organise a bunch down there, get your jersey's (so you show off your love of steel retro bikes) & get out there & spread the word.
Here's a link to the jersey post -
http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewt ... 23&t=60373" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby Hamster » Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:43 pm
How very strange!!!
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby Wazza » Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:11 pm
Ph Billet,
I have spent a fair amount of time in Sydney in the last 18mths and I usually stay around Milsons Point. I had noticed an increase in steel frames being used by commuters and not just fixes and single speeds so they're catching on
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby Hamster » Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:40 am
And me of course - but that's more a function of my age than the age of my bikes . I'm about to start working on a bike the same age as me and that is getting old almost pre-historic .Dan wrote:I suspect a lot of us are riding bikes that are older than we are. Except Wazza.
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby rogerrabbit » Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:28 am
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby WyvernRH » Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:29 am
Me Also I pre-date most of my bicycles but I do have quite a few older than me. I also have the happy co-incidence of owning a Carlton Catalina that was made in Worksop in the same year and month that I came into the world in London (June 1958 if you are interested)Dan wrote:I suspect a lot of us are riding bikes that are older than we are. Except Wazza.
Cheers
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby Wal42 » Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:42 am
Wish I had of kept that first Malvern Star that I had in the early 70's, probably be worth something now (no, not that much really), it was a ladies road bike with stem shift, that I welded a section of box steel into it so it looked like a mans bike. Was only a bare frame when I got it, now 40 years later I'm still building the damn things.
I need another hobby.
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Re: Older road bikes
Postby Ph billet » Mon Jan 28, 2013 2:50 pm
rogerrabbit wrote:. If you want to come for a ride on the oldies up the Akuna Bay and West Head area, let me know.
Roger (Seaforth)
That would be a cool place to ride, but I'm out in the south west,might have trouble keepping up ,rode the last Goulburn to Liverpool in 93 and finished in the main bunch,now 50 Ks is hard for me
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