The rear rack is the best bit on it.takai wrote:Any thoughts on this one:
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Postby grantw » Wed Dec 05, 2012 11:07 am
closely followed by the kickstandBRLVR.v2 wrote:The rear rack is the best bit on it.takai wrote:Any thoughts on this one:
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Postby Tasman » Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:20 pm
The trouble is that I can't bring myself to cut it up, it's too nice. The spokes are stainless steel, 1.8mm at the (brass) nipple but 1.5mm for the rest of their length and wired together where they cross with that wire then covered in solder. The axle spins freely and the rim is fairly true.
I may put it up on the 'bay and see what I can get or maybe see what I can swap it for. Hmmm, decisions, decisions.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby morini » Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:22 pm
http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewt ... 23&t=43248" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If your a collector, keep the bike in standard nick and hide it for twenty years or so. Or if your after a warm fussy feeling donate it to the Salvos. There's better things around you could use to build fixed wheel dick winder bikes than this.
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Postby frailer5 » Sun Feb 03, 2013 4:07 pm
Ricardo Elite, '87 Keith Davis/Pegasus, '92 Team Miyata Ti.
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Postby HappyHumber » Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:29 pm
Hopped on the runabout hack to ride down the bottle-o last weekend and picked up an Large sized Avanti MTB. A cheaper model, but mostly with servicable bits. Only thing really wrong with it is that the replacable steel RD hanger got bashed in and bent. Previous owner/thief obviously clueless/p!55ed mangled it a bit with some gouging to the ally dropout. I pulled off the chain & mangled Alivio derailleur...... et voila perfect SS MTB candidate. Mech. disc brakes, rims and tubes seem perfectly functional as is.
Today, on my way home through the 'burb from from an Audax ride, coming from a different direction.... a Malvern Star Mixte with Golden Arrow F+R Derailleurs. Frame itself isn't too bad compared against some Malverns of the period; with a wacky middle tube lug for the mixte downtube and even forged drop outs. Surprised it even has alloy lady bars!
Oh yeah.. and a Repco RT sport. 1020 Hi-Ten goodness. Fascinating old remnants of a 4 AA battery powered cycle computer. The frame tubing should be good for my brazing practice. All the other bits & bones will be on my verge tomorrow
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Postby peterk » Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:46 pm
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Postby HappyHumber » Sun Feb 17, 2013 5:01 pm
I'm always careful in Armadalepeterk wrote:Be carefull out there!!!
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Postby drubie » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:51 pm
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Postby munga » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:58 pm
i can't be good looking and intelligent..morini wrote:He lives in Armidale N.S.W. not Armidale W.A..
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Postby HappyHumber » Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:06 pm
Had to laugh at the hubs; "Chair" Brand with a little logo of, you guessed it, a chair.
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Postby HappyHumber » Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:08 pm
It's Armadale over here in Washington.morini wrote:He lives in Armidale N.S.W. not Armidale W.A..
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Postby familyguy » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:14 am
Come across a few pairs, always really smooth hubs. Someone might correct me if I'm wrong, but Chair brand became Sunshine became Sansin became Suntour. Or something like that. Bit of history to them.HappyHumber wrote:Stripped down the Mixte just now. Reasonable quality bits, which surprised me for most other contemporary Malvern Stars I've come across. H codes on the Shimano bits all suggest 1983. Obviously a loved bike for at least good portion of its life... it got a regular coatings of grease, making it a pleasure, if a dirty one, to disassemble.
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Postby Wal42 » Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:57 am
Here's a piece from Sheldon Brown's site, rather than me sit here & type it.................
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"Sansin/Sunshine
Sanshin made Sunshine hubs. My understanding is that the company picked "Sunshine" as a brand name since it sounded close to Sanshin, non-Japanese had trouble pronouncing Sanshin, and Sunshine has nice English-language connotations. Around 1985 the company seems to have dropped Sunshine and labeled its product Sanshin.
In addition to producing product under its own label, Sanshin also acted as a subcontractor for SunTour; all SunTour-labelled hubs came from Sanshin. I don't know if there was any corporate cross-ownership, but, in the late '80s, Sanshin's president was Mamoru Kawai, the younger son of Junzo Kawai, Maeda/SunTour's chairman.
Sanshin's factory was in Shiga-ken, maybe an hour from Maeda's offices in Sakai-shi. In the mid-'80s, Sanshin was diversifying a bit into forging auto parts. I don't know what happened to them when Maeda was purchased then went under.
Sanshin made a beautiful ProAm model high-flange hub in the late '70s. The flanges only had 5 cut-outs, leaving a distinctive star-shaped center section. Very nice bearing quality, lots of polish and pretty anodizing.
--Paul Brodek"- Unquote.
Hope this explains it a little, it was a fairly close relationship between the 2 companies.
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Postby Matt Zac » Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:20 am
Nonetheless, yesterday's school run returned a roughed up but very much complete GT Chucker 2.0 (disk brakes and single speed conversion!), a tidy Malvern star mtb and a Dick Tresidder unicycle that I'm yet to goad WyvernRH with
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Postby HappyHumber » Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:11 pm
From your description... I'd say it isn't too shabbyEnfantDeGuerre wrote:Can you tell anything about the bike from the lug set?
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Postby munga » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:56 pm
was also interested in that for parts, but factor in travel time, and a too-big frame with a dent seemed like an unprofitable proposition. nice score.morini wrote:Looks like the Hoffy I bought off ebay last night. It's a mixture of SR, Sugino, Zeus, Campag, Cinelli, Shimano and Suntour parts. Interesting bike.
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Postby landscapecadmonkey » Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:50 pm
Unknown brand ? Has had a repaint, looks like with a brush, esp on the gold lugs.
Couldnt ride past, so grabbed it. Its a bit of a basket case, broken spokes, rust, cant move the seat post bolt yet.
Just taking the photos a moment ago, saw that i had some other, less rusted and functioning 27" 6speed wheels.
A quick wheelset swap over (rear dropouts are little banged up, so some filing) plus much Inox on all parts.... AND IT RIDES AGAIN !! With some new inners, it would be good to go.
New wheels, inox all over, tyres pumped and ready to go !
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