I believe it is effectively camouflaged to keep those desparate Madtown college hooligans with spoke envy and bolt cutters from stalking you to Appleton. Its the bike equivalent of a paint spattered pair of Red Wings with good soles. It will take you far.
Don Wilson
Los Olivos, CA
> Howard Darr wrote:
> > I have some sentiment that a classic commuter
> should have a high funk
> > factor.
> >
> > Mine is a maserati that was low end and has about
> as much patina as a
> > bike can have.
>
> I'm with you on that. Mine is an old Italian frame
> of unknown provenance
> I acquired third-hand. The guy I got it from
> purchased it used in the
> early 70s with a mix of Italian components. He
> decked it out as a
> touring bike (although it has fairly tight geometry)
> and rode it across
> the US in the 1976 Bikecentennial event. Some years
> after that he began
> having problems with the bottom bracket -- it always
> seemed to be loose
> when he rode it, but he was unable to find any play
> when he put it on
> the workstand. He eventually brought it to Yellow
> Jersey in Madison,
> where they discovered that the BB shell had cracked
> all the way around
> the seat tube socket.
>
> He had the components transfered to a new frame and
> was going to toss
> the old one, but gave it to me instead. I eventually
> replaced the
> original cracked Italian-thread BB shell with an
> investment cast
> English-thread shell and built it up as my commuter
> bike. The frame is
> now painted in flat white primer; nothing else.
>
> The frame appears to be at least moderately
> high-end: Campy 1010
> dropouts, Prugnant lugs with windows, and fully
> chromed under a
> greenish-gold paint. No traces of the original
> manufacturer were on the
> frame when I acquired it, and the owner couldn't
> recall any when he got
> it either.
>
> I've built it up with a mish-mash of parts: Sugino
> triple crank, Duopar
> RD and Cyclone FD, Ofmega Sintesi pedals, funky
> Maillard front and rear
> drum brake hubs I've never seen anywhere else,
> Soubitez halogen
> generator lights, Snoopy bell, etc.
>
>
>
http://www.os2.dhs.org/
>
> --
> John (john@os2.dhs.org)
> Appleton WI USA
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