I have a nice bike that I am about to finish restoring, and I will not be riding it in its completed "display" state. I had to work way too hard to find the correct toeclips, toestraps and NOS tubulars (among other stuff). That was only 1985 vintage stuff, I can't imagine trying to find NOS 1960's tires! There is nothing special about the frame, it's a hand-brazed Trek 770. All the parts are correct date SR. My plan is to enjoying riding this bike again, but to preserve some of the wear-prone and hard-t- replace parts. To that end, I plan to switch out the wheels with similar-looking modern clinchers and switch to my normal Time pedals or some less precious clip and strap models. This will take about 10 minutes before and after each ride. I will never even have to glue my vintage tires! Someday I might through together a set of old-looking modern tubulars to regain that aspect of the ride and handling.
Tom Dalton
> Here is the question which I have been pondering
> lately. Say you had a classic bicycle which had
> never been ridden, would you ride it or not ride it?
> How many of you guys do ride some or all of your
> really pristeen bikes? Are there some bikes you
> would ride, some you would keep nice?
>
> The reason I ask is that I am just about to finish
> making up my first classic bike - Colnago Mexico
> 1982 with Super Record. It is all NOS, so it has
> never been ridden, and I am really divided between
> keeping it perfectly mint, or taking it for the
> occassional ride. I am certainly not planning to
> sell it ever, but it seems odd taking all this stuff
> out of the boxes and sitting on it on a dirty road!
>
> I guess there is the 'made to be ridden' school and
> the 'preserve history' school. Any comments would
> be appreciated.
>
> Jon Bridges. Auckland, New Zealand.
>
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