Richard,
Glad to have you aboard. In case you're real new and you haven't heard yet, you may be pleased to learn that some of those pending restorations will not out of neccessity send you to the poor house. Soon we will begin wotk on a project that will put exactly those kinds of projects back into the catagory of affordable and practical. So don't flush your cash just yet; if you can hold it for just a little while longer you will be rewarded monitarily.
I hope your computer chair is equipt with a seatbelt; sometimes this list can be a wild ride! Not compared to other lists apparently; but sometimes we hit a bump in the road (and then sometimes someone will back up and run it over again to made sure it's dead) like a short time ago. Hang with us, suck wheel (lurk ) if you have to, and get ready for more fun than the time you put that ferret down your pants!
Greetings from the class clown.
Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
Lunchtime is over, back to the salt mines.
>
> Hi CR,
>
> I'm new to your list a few weeks ago. I enjoy day rides of up to 100
> miles per day--mostly on roads--using tandems as well conventional singles.
> "Bobish" is probably the best description of my bikeplay during recent
> years, and I'll probably always have a bobish side. I also have a
> developing weakness for classics and a newer value for keeping things
> period correct. I have a special nostalgic fondness for Raleighs and would
> still like to have a shot-back Pro and a Competition II someday--but not
> until some other bike projects are done.
>
> My (really our) pre 1990 bikes, in chronological order, are:
>
> 19xx Shapleigh Hardware Special.
> *************************
> As the name suggests, this is a welded consumer machine, and perhaps not
> worthy of the interest of this group. I acquired this boy racer for free
> as a frame and a loose collection of some original parts and have never
> made any progress toward restoring it. I wonder if it was made by
> Columbia, may in the thirties, maybe earlier. The headbadge says "St.
> Louis, Missouri" which is where I found the bike and still live. I have
> the original New Departure coaster brake hub, the pista style bars and
> stem, the seatpost and saddle, the one-piece inch-pitch crank, and that's
> about it.
>
> 1951 Raleigh Lenton Sports
> *********************
> 531 straight guage main tubes. Lenton green. Sturmey Archer AW. Great
> rider. About to be restored to its original dignity. Yes, I do know that
> I'll lose money on this project. I have all the original parts except the
> brakes (both levers and calipers). And the Bluemels mudguards are broken.
>
> 1968 Peugeot PX10
> ***************
> Rough condition. Poor chrome. Good alignment. No dents. White. Bike
> store foil sticker. I'm not riding it right now. It's next on the
> restoration list. Yup. I know I'll lose money on this one too. I have
> the original parts except the AVA rims. But I have beautiful pair of mint
> Wolber Gentleman rims which seem spiritually correct. Somebody had drilled
> extra spoke holes in the AVA's (for what purpose I can't say) and they were
> cruddy. So I pitched 'em.
>
> 1971 Raleigh Int'l
> *************
> Light olive. Not quite mint but almost. It even has the original bar tape
> and lever hoods. It's olive, and it has the regular heron cutout
> headbadge. Am building some clincher wheels for riding while keeping
> sew-up wheels original.
>
> 197x Peugeot UE-8
> **************
> BMX drive train and Zoom Brahmas. I leave it outside as campus
> transportation.
>
> 1975 Crescent Stainless
> ******************
> Like the Raleigh and the Peugeot, this has Nervex lugs. It also has
> Suntour dropouts with eyelets. Purchased as a frame that had been
> scavenged, it's always had a more or less functional but unmatched list of
> parts. For years, this was my only bike. For other years, this was my
> only single. I also use it with a second set of wheels and 35mm knobbies
> for rough stuff. I consider this my true all-rounder, though I have a
> Rivendell A/R that's a gorgeous tourer. Someplace I have long piece that I
> wrote for internet-bob about doing a solo century on this bike on a
> 96-degree day the week after my mom died. It's introspective and maudlin,
> but I'd share it again off list if anybody has too much time on his/her hands.
>
> 1976 Peugeot UO-18
> ***************
> BMX single speed and North Rounders. It's Kelly Green which is a
> Color-Me-Beautiful color for an autumn. This is Chestnut's campus bike
> that lives outdoors.
>
> 1982 Rodriguez tandem (serial MB16)
> ****************************
> Fillet brazed by someone you all know and his name ain't Angel. This one
> can't really count as my bike. It's ours. We got it new when $2600 was a
> chunk o' change for us. This group would probably be ticked if I told you
> all the changes its been through over the years, and knew the component
> list that was on it then -- and the other list that's on it now. I've
> treated it as a rider. We didn't even begin thinking of it as a classic
> until a couple years ago. And since then I've done some more stuff.
> Sorry, but it's our ride and it suits us. We like the 24" rear top tube
> and don't like the modern standard of 28". It has a kidback that will be
> just great when our son Michael finally gets married and sires a grandchild.
>
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>
> I know that you're not interested in post 1989 stuff with bobish parts
> collections, so I won't list them. I do have one 1990 bike that you might
> consider a classic lightweight.
>
> 1990 Serotta Titan EX (ex CR Brian Blum)
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> Great riding bike. Dura Ace Downtube-8, Cinelli 1A/66. Raspberry color
> with an unoriginal titanium B17. It has eyelets in the rear for a rack but
> I've never mounted a rack. Thank you Brian.
>
> To each of you that got through that, thanks for listening. I enjoy the
> list and hope to participate more in the future,
>
> Richard
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> Richard Booth, CIS Director
> The Principia
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