Watching bikes in classifieds
10-11-24, 01:00 PM
#101
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If I find a nice deal/bike I post it on the deals thread so I don't buy it.
Working good so far, and I still view another bike as taking time away from my current rides. Many months ago I dang near got a bike a month the deals were so good, looks like they have slowed down a little but I also see some bikes go same day or very quick since others are looking in my area.
It's just the high end bikes at good prices that take longer to sell.
All of the bikes were made before I was born but my parents rode them and I started out on vintage so to me it's normal to ride old steel. Most of my generation was more into MTB's but I bailed a decade ago on chasing the tech so I am old school in that too...
Working good so far, and I still view another bike as taking time away from my current rides. Many months ago I dang near got a bike a month the deals were so good, looks like they have slowed down a little but I also see some bikes go same day or very quick since others are looking in my area.
It's just the high end bikes at good prices that take longer to sell.
All of the bikes were made before I was born but my parents rode them and I started out on vintage so to me it's normal to ride old steel. Most of my generation was more into MTB's but I bailed a decade ago on chasing the tech so I am old school in that too...
10-11-24, 03:32 PM
#103
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If anyone is wondering what repechage and I are talking about when we mention Altenburger brakes (which long predated Shimano's versions of dual-pivot brakes), here's a photo, borrowed from this thread:
I have a Weinmann dual pivot caliper.
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10-11-24, 04:46 PM
#104
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TREK Marlin 5 with extensive mods.....
Marin Fairfax SC5 built from a NOS frame...
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10-16-24, 10:50 PM
#105
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I remember vividly the shock when a member of our local bike club showed up to a ride in the fall of 1964, proudly showing off his recently purchased top-of-the-line Atala, equipped with the first truly complete Campagnolo gruppo any of us had ever seen: Campy was now making brakes! And those brakes were, astonishingly, side pulls! Heresy!
10-16-24, 10:56 PM
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10-17-24, 09:16 AM
#107
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Someone came to my office who had recently turned 80 and she noted that she was on her way to visit her mother in a rest home because her mother demands to be visited twice per week. I asked her how old her mother was and she replied, "103". You never know!
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Classic American and British Roadsters, Utility Bikes, and Sporting Bikes (1935-1979):
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10-17-24, 10:22 AM
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I'm trying to wear out one of my riders so that I can replace it when that affordable Masi GC M59 appears in the classifieds.
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