You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
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You beauty - let everyone see what you've got!
Postby LuckyPierre » Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:46 am
Let's start (well, Europa has already started) by showing off our bikes. A couple of simple conditions - no carbon and no aluminium frame components should just about do it. Even I wouldn't want to be stuck with steel rims - but if you've got 'em, flaunt 'em.
Alan from the Canberra Bicycle Museum says that the term 'vintage light' is the usual one for what many (some?) of us are talking about - bikes of the 1970's and 80's. He says that vintage light classes usually exclude indexed gears, which became available in 1985. That means Tojo wouldn't fit, so I'm sticking with 'retro' and making up our own rules!
I'd like each contributor to add a new topic for their bike, rather than have one big long topic with lots of bikes in it. Anyway, let me know what you think we should do.
Can contributors please re-size images to 320x240 pixels before posting them? It's really easy in PhotoBucket and I'm sure that other image servers have similar facilities
Thanks
Peter
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Postby europa » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:31 pm
Garage? Garage? I'm outraged. My Europa lives INSIDE. Sheesh. You can't leave a lady out in the shed.
I bought her in the mid eighties and she's essentially unmodified (though currently wearing a Shimano 600 front derailleur). Ofmega 'R' groupset. In her commuting days, she wore mudguards, a carrier and a dynamo (I had one of the early halogen lighting systems on her and boy are they bright).
I was talking to the technical director of the AIS here a few weeks back and it turns out he used to run the shop where I bought her, only for a couple of years, but he may have been the bloke who did the sale. Anyways, he was able to clear up her history a bit. In those days, Europa were importing frames and building them up, as well as making some of their own. My bike is probably a Nishiki frame (good quality frames in those days) and with the good gear, she's a sweetie.
Dat's my girl.
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How Old?
Postby heavymetal » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:42 pm
Or is it just no carbon and no aluminium?
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Re: How Old?
Postby mikesbytes » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:32 am
And/Or distance? 50,000k +bicyclewa wrote:How old does a bike have to be to qualify for the Retro biking area?
Or is it just no carbon and no aluminium?
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Re: the goods
Postby mikesbytes » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:33 am
Canberra Bicycle Museumgarden_lark wrote:
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Postby garden_lark » Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:58 am
it's the Evandale Nightmare, which frequents the evandale village fair and national penny farthing championships in tasmania every february.
people have been making bicycles from bed heads for more than 100 years now.
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Re: How Old?
Postby LuckyPierre » Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:16 pm
I'm not going to be pedantic about it, but I'll put some suggestions in the 'sticky' when I get back from the museum this afternoon.bicyclewa wrote:How old does a bike have to be to qualify for the Retro biking area?
Or is it just no carbon and no aluminium?
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an oldie but a goodie
Postby garden_lark » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:33 pm
??Canberra Bicycle Museum
here's another precious ride...
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Re: an oldie but a goodie
Postby mikesbytes » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:20 pm
The bed head bike is in the Canberra Bicycle Museumgarden_lark wrote:mikesbytes, why did you sayCanberra Bicycle Museum
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sleepy byes
Postby garden_lark » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:52 pm
Ahh... A bed head bike, not this one. The builder of this bike has made several, mostly back at home in Dublin. This one lives in Murray Street, Evandale, Tasmania.mikesbytes wrote: The bed head bike is in the Canberra Bicycle Museum
There are lots in the UK. This pic is from 1930.
I've seen a tallbike made from a bunk bed head, too. Oversize tubing eat your heart out.
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precious tourer
Postby garden_lark » Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:02 pm
my friend recently rode from perth to adelaide on this bike at age 70, using pack racks and back packs no BOB or panniers.
*hero*
never mind the cannondale with the try-hard 16 spoke rims in the background...
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Postby cludence » Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:23 pm
Karen.
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1986 Hercules
Postby Akadoo » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:36 pm
It has origional tyres, there is quite a bit of rust on the chromed bits which I have cleaned as much as possible and preserved with silicone wax.
Is this one of the last of their productions? I am interested to learn more.
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Postby mikesbytes » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:20 pm
Burn plenty of Glycogen
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Postby LuckyPierre » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:37 pm
Sorry, I'm finding a litte collection of posts where the unread flag isn't appearing - yours was one of them.davo231481 wrote:well i guess by the deafening silence that i have been exiled to the mtb site. the tribe has spoken.
No, I wouldn't condemn you to the mtb site - put your beast up. I'd prefer things that were a bit older, but I'd prefer very flexible rules 'rules' even more! The fact that it's largely an 'alloy-free zone' means that it has to be a good thing!
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Postby europa » Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:52 pm
She dates from the seventies. He scored her last year. Come summer, we converted her to a track bike but now he wants to ride to school every day - up and down the Expressway hill I wouldn't let him ride his OCR2, so I've rebuilt the Gitane - using some of his old bits, some bits from the Europa now they aren't needed and some new.
Mavic wheels - original
Shimano Eagle 2 rear derailleur - original
Six speed cluster - new - originally five and the six really didn't want to fit in there but with a spacer and removing the spoke protector (it fouled the dr) the six now does
Original chainrings complete with massive warp so I can't adjust the front dr properly
Shimano600 front derailleur - NEW - bought it last year and it did a couple of months on the Europa
Suntour friction shifters - from the Europa
Weinman brakes and levers - original - with new cables and pads they actually stop the bike
The rest is more or less original.
A grand old bike works again
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Postby wombatoutofhell » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:03 pm
My other brother has a Malvern Star racer that dates from the 50's. It was upgraded a bit during the 80's when her got it-was originally a 3 speed derailleur which was the weirdest contraption i ever saw on a bike. he replaced it late 80's with a custom built Farliegh bike-no idea if anyones heard of them. He was working with Bob Farliegh at the time at Goldcross Cycles back when they only had 1 store. he still has that bike too, in great condition.
I'll try to get some pics
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