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Wife's vintage Gary Fisher.
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Cruisertrash’s vintage bike trash - all are welcome
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Not old- - - Vintage lol
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New saddle day.
First the old:
And the new:
I wanted copper rivets because they look cool, so I got copper rivets from eBay for a decent price. This makes … five B17s in the house haha.
The old saddle (with silver rivets) is the best broken in Brooks I currently have. It’s perfect. The copper one will get there with time though: Right now it needs the nose adjusted for more tension. It looks pretty unused but is actually a little floppy from the previous owner’s miles. If the nose adjustment doesn’t work I’ll lace it like the old one.
Also threw some new bar tape on this bike. I tried out the BTP brand fake leather and it was awful. My LBS had some woven bar tape that looked cool - also BTP brand - so I’m trying that.
No new acquisitions and I’m trying hard to keep it that way. In fact I might sell the 1984 Trek 830. I’ve had it for 10 years and really loved it, but it doesn’t get the miles anymore.
First the old:
And the new:
I wanted copper rivets because they look cool, so I got copper rivets from eBay for a decent price. This makes … five B17s in the house haha.
The old saddle (with silver rivets) is the best broken in Brooks I currently have. It’s perfect. The copper one will get there with time though: Right now it needs the nose adjusted for more tension. It looks pretty unused but is actually a little floppy from the previous owner’s miles. If the nose adjustment doesn’t work I’ll lace it like the old one.
Also threw some new bar tape on this bike. I tried out the BTP brand fake leather and it was awful. My LBS had some woven bar tape that looked cool - also BTP brand - so I’m trying that.
No new acquisitions and I’m trying hard to keep it that way. In fact I might sell the 1984 Trek 830. I’ve had it for 10 years and really loved it, but it doesn’t get the miles anymore.
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Oh now we’re bringing BMX into it?? I’m all for it because that’s where I started, I was a bmx kid. As kids we rode all over our end of town looking for patches of woods so we could build jumps. Anyway, that’s an excellent Kuwahara! The mags are just so good.
Same. We were a pack of smelly feral kids on Motomags. It was glorious
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When I was about 8 years old, my parents got me a new bike for my birthday and I was allowed to pick it out as long as we bought it from one particular shop - which their friend "coincidentally" owned. They had GTs, Redlines, and Diamondbacks but they also made what they called "ugly bikes". They'd take pieces and parts of whatever they had laying around, spray paint each part a different garish 90s color or pattern, and then assemble. So that's what I got. Mine had a hot pink fork, orange and slime green frame, and there was definitely splatter effect somewhere. I thought I was hot s*** riding around on that thing ... until one day I got jumped by four kids a few years older than me. They thought the bike was cool too, and wanted to take it! They a few some punches on me before a classmate's mom happened to be walking by, recognized me, and scared them off. I got rid of that one pretty quick after that and went back to the shop and bought a Diamonback Viper, which was not the greatest but I rode that damn thing all over the city until it got stolen outside of a store. I was 14 and was checking out the latest CDs in a Best Buy with my girlfriend, as one did in the middle 90s. I bought a bike lock the next week haha.
Man, bmx bikes hold a lot of memories for me!
Thanks...I figured vintage is vintage. I started BMX in Maryland in 1978 on a black/gold Mongoose...it was stolen, so used insurance money for a chrome Supergoose. Moved back to Colorado in 1981 and BMX gave way to Freestyle, and this Kuwahara was built by a budding freestyle rider who worked at The Bike Shop. It’s one of the more rare bikes of the era, with VCG 100% OEM bikes selling north of $5K.
Aaaagh…same here, The good old days
Gotta put that one in the Lost Loves thread
Stopped by a local shop going out of business-sad as it's the only shop where you can find vintage parts and bikes! Anyway, they had this hanging in the back. And $10 later it's my next project. Can't wait to find a set of coaster brake wheels and get this girl ripping again.
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Chicago!!
Is the shop still actively selling stuff? You gotta let us know about these things!
They are pretty low on everything. Still had some piles of older mtb and road parts. And a few bikes. But, otherwise almost empty. Sad times for sure!
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I had to have a couple pieces of Italian bling on the Trek (seat post and headset). It’s part of that bikes “tour around the world” motif haha.
I end up riding the Holdsworth around the neighborhood more often than anything else. If I’m going 10 blocks or less, that’s the bike. It’s so simple and easy.
Well they weren't vintage when I bought them 
'86 Brodie Romax. Has become a bit of a legendary bike in these parts (the brodie, not mine in particular...). Hand made, fillet brazed.
I think its an '88 - Pinarello Montello in chromo velato with full Super Record other than C record seat post and Look pedals. Still sporting the original tubulars. Apparently its a minor miracle the original decals are still completely intact.
Year undetermined but early 80s Colnago Super. Belonged to a really close friend who passed away. I considered doing a restoration of it but decided to keep it as he had it.
'86 Brodie Romax. Has become a bit of a legendary bike in these parts (the brodie, not mine in particular...). Hand made, fillet brazed.
I think its an '88 - Pinarello Montello in chromo velato with full Super Record other than C record seat post and Look pedals. Still sporting the original tubulars. Apparently its a minor miracle the original decals are still completely intact.
Year undetermined but early 80s Colnago Super. Belonged to a really close friend who passed away. I considered doing a restoration of it but decided to keep it as he had it.
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Hot damn, that’s a nice stable. The Brodie geometry looks well ahead of its time for 1987. Never heard of them, but handmade & fillet brazed = quality. The road bikes both look pristine. My only comment on those is that the chainrings & straight blocks on both make my knees hurt. Those bikes are for maintaining high speed and never letting off the throttle. So do you get much saddle time on those?Well they weren't vintage when I bought them
'86 Brodie Romax. Has become a bit of a legendary bike in these parts (the brodie, not mine in particular...). Hand made, fillet brazed.
I think its an '88 - Pinarello Montello in chromo velato with full Super Record other than C record seat post and Look pedals. Still sporting the original tubulars. Apparently its a minor miracle the original decals are still completely intact.
Year undetermined but early 80s Colnago Super. Belonged to a really close friend who passed away. I considered doing a restoration of it but decided to keep it as he had it.