Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby familyguy » Thu May 23, 2013 2:34 pm
Still got the OG bike shop sticker on it:
This is the worst of the rust, and there's nothing inside the tubes of note:
Nice Fuji fork crown:
Does anyone have a source of info on Fuji tubing details? I've got two Fuji's...this one (Fuji VALite triple butted 178) and a Fuji Finest II (Fuji double butted 331). Both bikes seem to take a 26.8 post. The 331 may be rebranded Ishiwata 022. The steerer tube of the Sagres has Tange stamped into it, so the 178 may be a Tange set. But in the absence of decent info, that's all I can guess.
1985 Fuji Sagres triple butted 178:
1979 Fuji Finest II DB 331:
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby singlespeedscott » Thu May 23, 2013 4:46 pm
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby hiflange » Sun May 26, 2013 9:00 pm
Frame number 1P623. I'm a novice in the black art of MS frame dating but I'm going to hazard a guess that it was a 1951 Perth build. maybe? edit; or 1941?
sadly someone has rammed a too large seatpost in so it's backside not so pretty...
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby barefoot » Mon May 27, 2013 8:22 am
Your dog has very good taste! Mine only tended to pick up sticks when on walks.RobertFrith wrote:Walked the dog over to my folks this arvo, picked this up on the way...
I'm also fairly clueless in the details of old Malverns, but I'm surprised to see the seat stays brazed on like that. Most old frames I've noticed have bolted/rivetted seat stays. Could be indicative of... something
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby singlespeedscott » Mon May 27, 2013 9:20 pm
thats only the cheap and nasty ones.barefoot wrote:
I'm also fairly clueless in the details of old Malverns, but I'm surprised to see the seat stays brazed on like that. Most old frames I've noticed have bolted/rivetted seat stays. Could be indicative of... something
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby barefoot » Mon May 27, 2013 9:46 pm
Ah ha, so this detail could be indicative that the frame is not cheap and nastysinglespeedscott wrote:thats only the cheap and nasty ones.barefoot wrote:I'm also fairly clueless in the details of old Malverns, but I'm surprised to see the seat stays brazed on like that. Most old frames I've noticed have bolted/rivetted seat stays. Could be indicative of... something
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Postby trailgumby » Mon May 27, 2013 9:55 pm
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby hiflange » Mon May 27, 2013 10:35 pm
Yep, pretty tragic, would have required a deal of force too. Anyway at least it's aluminium, I reckon it'll be a relatively easy job to ream it out. It's a nice frame, and like any 72 year old a few scars and blemishes are to be expectedtrailgumby wrote:That was a cheap and terribly nasty thing they did with the seat post, though <shudder!>
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby WyvernRH » Tue May 28, 2013 8:30 am
The forks on yours look original but it looks like someone has added the brake drilling (it is well off centre!) or is that how they came?
You might want to braze a patch at the bottom of the cutout slot when you have it back to normal to stop that crack going any further. You won't see it at the back and you can make it look pretty.
Cheers
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby hiflange » Tue May 28, 2013 11:26 am
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby WyvernRH » Tue May 28, 2013 12:07 pm
It is made of some sort of seamless plain gauge tubing except for the top tube which I know is butted 531 cos it was badly dented and I replaced it when I was given the frame many years ago.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby vanbree » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:16 am
004 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
003 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
002 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
001 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
005 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby silentbutdeadly » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:40 am
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby LugNut » Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:41 pm
This is the sort of find that keeps me interested in hard rubbish One mans trash...vanbree wrote:Picked this one up recently, 4130 mainframetubes, suntour dropouts &running gear, hubs are sunshine.
That fork crown is fantastic. You probably know this already, but these mid 80s MTBs make some of the best 26 inch touring bikes you can get your hands on. A lot of the early Japanese branded ones came out of the Kuwahara factory, check for a sticker on the non drive chain stay.
It would probably have the clearance for a Resist Nomad, currently my favourite tyre. They're lightweight and soft, like riding on a (fast moving and extremely grippy?) cloud.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby singlespeedscott » Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:59 pm
That is sweet as. I just love those Bullmoose handlebars.vanbree wrote:Picked this one up recently, 4130 mainframetubes, suntour dropouts &running gear, hubs are sunshine.
004 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
003 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
002 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
001 by adrianvanbreemen, on Flickr
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby munga » Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:16 pm
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby grantw » Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:54 pm
gotta get me a new hat!munga wrote:nothin' up the sleeve!
Back OT though, that's a great find vanbree, I'd love to have something like that built up for errands and shopping, perhaps even a bit of touring.
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
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Re: Hard Rubbish/Flea market finds
Postby HappyHumber » Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:19 pm
Dammit.. the signal to noise ratio in this thread is gettin' pretty crap these days.
Hit me up via the BNA dm; I'll get an alert. If y'know, you know.
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