cycleheimer

+1 Great suggestion!!! I'd have it cleaned and built into a nice commuter/touring bike overnight!!! These were not cheap bikes when new.

BTW, nice color. Celeste/Sea Foam green?

CrossCut (not an Apex)

SteveSGP

Picked up this World Traveler at Goodwill the other day and I'm having trouble dating it, little help please?

auchencrow

[QUOTE=toytech;12547809]Somehow everyone missed a Raleigh Grand Sports today on Craiglist with Dura Ace deraileurs and Stronglight cranks... must have been the stem shifters that threw everyone off.

QUOTE]

toytech - Am I to assume that "everyone" excludes the first person in the above post**********???

toytech

everyone but my son and I apparently it was up for almost a full day(he is the one who spotted it and told me about it)

frantik

Flowers always help




is there a 4 digit code stamped on the badge?

sykerocker 

Off the top of my head, without any numbers, I'd feel safe in saying 1972 or 1973. That's the years I remember them being made.

auchencrow

I don't want to know what you paid for it - a GS going incognito - blending in with all the Huffy's and Free Spirits on your local CL - But I am sure it was good.
Script logo yet - White and Lagoon blue, like a little piece of Paradise!
Congrats!

(Let's see again, it all cleaned up soon!)

SteveSGP

Thanks guys, no number on the head badge but the '72-'73 sounds about right to me as well.

Chris_in_Miami

The LBS has a Blackburn MTN front rack in the same color as yours if you want to have a matching set. They also have a generic rear rack in neon pink

frantik

^ you are a bad bad man...

Chris_in_Miami

I'm a world-class enabler. Spending other people's money is a passion of mine.

BobHufford

Oh my ... one of my grail bikes (and my size too). I shouldn't be hating you on Easter, so I won't. Envy? No doubt!

Congrats,

Bob

BobHufford

2Gxxxxx decodes to July of 1972 for the frame build. Was considered a 1973 "model". Schwinn's first import along with the World Voyageur.

https://www.schwinnbikeforum.com/SLDB...73wowners1.htm

Bob

frantik

yep i love the color.. that's actually why i bought it in the first place.. i didn't even realize it was so high quality until i started looking at it more closely. I always thought diamond back was a low end brand.. i didn't know it was the same company as centurion. i did the ol "lift test" though and could tell it would build up nice

just need to find a donor bike for it now. it's got weird "u-brakes" in the rear which i will have to find

Midwest Ullrich

Scored a pair of matching Ultegra 6500 Mavic open pro wheel set for $75. The wheels are true and skewers have only minor scratches. I am surprised I could get them 3 days after the CL posting was listed. I hope I did not overpay!

Velorate

I restored my dad’s old 74 Fuji touring bike. He gave it away to a local scrap dealer...where is sat for two years... until I found it, pulled from the heap and tossed beside a garden shed under some roofing!
It called for a tear down and re-paint. I kept most of the original parts:
Campy derailleurs, Gnutti hubs, Ambrosio rims, Nitto bars, Dia Compe brakes, etc.
This was the result:

Sixty Fiver

Finding the rear brake should not be that hard... Shimano made lots of them and I will keep an eye out for as donor for ya.

They are a little harder to set up and take a little more tlc than cantis or v brakes but do offer some great stopping power... they are really good for cleaner riding conditions as they do collect a lot of dirt and mud.

With that being said...I run a set on my winter bike and as long as you keep them adjusted and keep the bushing lubed they are great.

The other route is to spend $50.00 and have a frame builder add some v brake / canti posts for you.

Smokinapankake

I've had a few of these now and can tell you without a doubt they are nice nice nice. Only thing lacking is a 3rd bottle mount and low rider brazeons.
Both mine came with the cooler than U-brake rollercams. A little (not much) more difficult to set up, but they give phenomenal power when done correctly. Mine also came with a super neat Nitto quill stem with a clamp on extension, much like today's threadless stems. Very cool feature, and I've been looking for some time now for another, to no avail. Mine were both built with Tange MTB double butted tubing; the larger one (20" seat tube) had two bottle braze-ons on top of the down tube, the smaller one (18"seat tube) had one on both down and seat tubes. I took my larger one to a local guy and had him add two bottles (one under the down tube, one on the seat tube, for a total of 4) and relocate the brake posts to the seatstays. Sadly, he did a hack job and ruined the frame. So now it sits on my basement wall.

Edit: Meant to say that they lack dual eyelets on the dropouts F&R, not lowrider mounts.

BHOFM

New to this "vintage thing", I just finished an old Trek with a "chain hanger", what is it for? Dumb questions,, to hang a chain??

Why, It is special? The old Trek was according to the bike shop, a "special order bike" when new.

Before:



After:

frantik

^ those are actually the kind of tires i was thinking about putting on the diamond back

and the chain hanger is for hanging the chain yo.. i guess to keep it off the chain stay

frantik

it's also got mounts for racks and fenders on the front and back.. the front has weird braze ons on the side of the fork

alecw35

Theres a junk yard in town that Ive got a few things from. I got a pair of 700c wheels. 9 speed cassette, shimano hubs, 24 bladed spokes on deep v black alloy rims. was going to get tyres and put them on the Rossin I got a few weeks ago. Wheels were £1. I got a mtb disc front wheel at the same time. so 33 pence a wheel.

I was up at the junk yard yesterday. I found a GT LTS2 frame, swingarm, shock, headset cartridges and XT mech. all a bit corroded. I left it at the side, as I found this Univega. Univega Alpina. I think its from mid 90s. Shimano xt rear mech. LX cantilevers. DX levers. The man in the office said put £1 in the charity box. I put all my coins in there. about 73 pence. Bike is my size. Ive got a pair of exage hubs Im going to build up. so might use this. I had originally wanted it for parts tho.

I had my Xmas bike. a bike I had found in the woods, then put in police lost property.

Its an Apollo FS26. Low end bike from a chain store, I used to work for. Its ok. I strapped the univega frame to my rucksack and biked home 10 miles. pedal was sticking in my neck, so my heads like that today

cycleheimer

Alexw35,

That was a pretty decent bike, and still is if it is in good condition. You can get more information on it from Bikepedia. You can search around the listings for Univega Alpinas until you locate yours.

Here is the link:

https://bikepedia.com/QuickBike/BikeS...0507&Type=bike

toytech

Like this?

Roger M 

I picked this up, and it's in pretty nice nice shape with only a couple nicks in the paint. Looks like it has all of the original parts.





Anyone know how to clean suede?