Hi,
I came across this list when seeking information about a bike I recently
brought.
Over the years I have brought and rebuilt for use several oldish steel
framed bikes. Whilst not usually meeting this lists definition of classic's
as the are not pre 1983, I have been able to buy a few nice bikes from the
late eighties and early nineties cheaply and rebuild them for myself,
friends and families often with updated components. The second-hand values
of older bikes being often very cheap as most people seem to be obsessed
with new aluminium framed bikes. I hate the idea of bikes becoming
disposable consumer products built only to last a few years rather than
machines that can be used for life as was the way with many bikes from the
past. Usually these bikes are mountain bikes particularly steel framed bikes
from Marin who seemed to me to make their frames with an attention to detail
and quality lacking in many other modern manufacturers. their bikes from the
period make excellent usable bikes.
I have recent;y brought a 1992 British Eagle Touristique, which is pictured
her
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all the best
Pete Marshall
"The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." Ferdinand Magellan
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