This is a Bike Thread

I have nearly as many bikes as I do knives :cool: Mostly I'm a fan of Italian road bikes, but I do have a few MTBs as well. I started out riding MTBs in 1985, so I've seen lots of changes over the years. I won't bother giving details for everything, but here's the current stable.

Road:

1970s Somec (full Super Record)
1970s Ciöcc (Campy 50th Anniversary gruppo)
1980 Ciöcc (Mockba '80)
1992 Ciöcc
1995 Bianchi Cyclo-Cross (set up as wet weather road bike)
1996 Cramerotti (set up as single speed)
1997 Bellesi

MTB:

1988 Cannondale
1989 Scapin (full Campy Euclid)
1993 Ibis Mt. Trials
1999 Dirt Works Cannibal

Frames waiting to be built:
1980s Ciöcc Cyclocross
1980s Pinarello Time Trial (funny bike)
2003 Fondriest Stratus Plus

A couple of pics....

The 50th Anniv. Ciöcc
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The Dirt Works
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Friends don't let friends ride shimaNO :D
 
I'm a cyclist when the boating, fishing and hunting don't get in the way. Down to five currently--commuter (Giant), road (Raleigh Supercourse), offroad (Raleigh inferno frame build), single-speed road (Specialized Allez) and ancient Nishiki road bike. 2700 miles in '06, only about 2100 last year.

Those are some gorgeous classic road bikes, BH. I'd like to find some sweet older road bikes, but they don't exist around here.

'Bents are getting more popular, and the price is coming down. J&B Cycles out of Florida markets the Sun brand, many models, a lot of bike for the $$. I have a riding buddy who really likes his Bachetta, and some of the trikes like the Catrikes look like a lot of fun.
 
mwerner said:
As I tend to rebuild and sell old bikes, I go through a bunch of them. My current ride is a very vintage (1972 or thereabouts) Cilo (That's a Belgian brand) with a Columbus frame and (mostly) Shimano 600 components.
I've extensively rebuilt the thing, replacing the crappy Malliard wheels and hubs with Shimano items, and going from a 6-speed freewheel to an 8-speed freehub.

The brakes are still rather marginal Wienemanns, I keep looking for a pair of long-reach Shimano 600 calipers at a reasonable price.

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I also have a home-built recumbent which is a highly-refined version of the cheap "No Weld" plans you can buy online.
(No pics right now)
It's made up of at least 3 different bikes, weighs 38 pounds, and actually rides quite well.

For Oldfogey asking about "bents", there are lots of models available, and they tend to be more costly than regular bikes due to the relatively low sales.
Here's a link to "Bikeforums":
http://www.bikeforums.net/
Which has an active recumbent thread as well as tons more information.
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I think Cilo is a Swiss made brand. Became quite popular when the dimunitive Swiss climbing ace Beat Breu won KOM in the TDF many years back. And yet another Swiss with a Cilo- time trialist specialist Daniel Gisiger won the GP de Nations.

N.

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I forgot to post my singlespeed.

This was my first real mountain bike. When I started riding harder and needed full suspension, I decided to convert this into SS instead of selling it off. It's VERY fast and beefy. It's not very light of course, but I beat this one up too.

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biking has clearly replaced fishing and knives as my primary hobby


i ride a pegoretti "big leg emma" with a record group set. i also just got a new tommasini fire frame to replace my old one that got mushed by a suburban. i was able to move most of my chorus groupset over. replaced the cassette and cranks with centaur. the new groupsets are getting too light and expensive. i wore out a $375 record cassette in 4400 miles...i got close to 10k miles out of my chorus one. titanium and carbon fiber are fine on knives but they sure dont hold up as well on the drivetrain of a bike.


i have a cannondale mtb. very rarely go off road with it. just piddle around with the kids
 
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Custom Sycip; Reynolds 853 Goodness

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My beloved Bontrager Race put into SS service the last few years.

Lenny
 
I was able to find precious little on the Cilo firm. Although the decals do say "Cilo Swiss', I seem to recall that the marque was headquartered in Belgium...

They made a full line of bikes, apparently, and even fielded at least one TDF team.

This one is obviously not a top-of-the-line job, and was obviously intended as a sport-commuter.
 
Yup. The Tour de France (TDF) team was Cilo- Aufina which Breu and Gisiger rode for. Many years ago, I' ve seen several of these team issued bikes with the markings of "Swiss Made" on the seat tubes closest to the bottom bracket shell. Perhaps the non team issued bikes were manuactured elsewhere.

N.

www.dozierknives.com/forum
 
Have a '02 Klein Quantum----but its kind of taken a back seat to my Suzuki 1200 the last few years----really need to get back to cycling---I'm getting fat and lazy.
 
I don't and can't afford to run a car so I cycle everywhere. I worked out it costs me $15.00 a year to run as tyres last about 2 years if you let them get down to the orange! ;)
 
I ride a Javis. The bike is set up sweet for the weather in Oregon. It is a really diverse bike. It is suited well forthe mountains or the road.
 
I have a Colnago C40, a Waterford 2200, and a Nishiki Alien. Colnago over $6,000, Waterford $3,200, and Nishiki $1,000.

Obviously I like cycling and went over 2,300 miles last season. Long live fine bicycles, my 2008 Lexus RX 400H, My knife collection, and my watch collection including a Rolex TT GMT-Master II c, Tag Heuer Kirium Chronometer, MTM Navy SEAL Dive Watch.
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Typical male, loves toys.

Terry Newton 1st Post
From Michigan
 
Latest bike:
  • Spectrum Titanium Super
  • Campagnolo Record kit
  • Campagnolo Hyperon Ultra wheelset
 
I finaly took a few photos:

Here's my 1972 Mercian Professional which I've had since age 14. Some of the components have been slightly updated, but its basic Campy Nouvo Record:

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Here's my commuting bike -- a titanium Airborne Carpe Diem with Campy Centaur triple -- very comfy ride:

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And here's a 2001 titanium Airborne Zeppelin, with Campy Chorus 10-speed. Note the stem riser -- my 49 year old back can't bend so low anymore:

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This is a Raleigh DL-1 Tourist -- a design that goes back to the early 1900s. Note the rod-operated stirrup brakes and sprung leather Brooks saddle. It has 28" balloon tires and a 46" wheelbase. Super comfy ride. This is my "user" DL-1. I have a nicer one in storage:

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This is one I threw together with spare parts on a Raleigh Super Course 531 frame:

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I still have the Peugot track (Campy Record track) bike I raced as a kid. It's in storage along with a '72 Bottechia Professional and a Lotus Pro, both with full Campy Nouvo Record.
 
singlespeed rocks! I ride s.s that started as a specialized hardrock and got tricked out to s.s by me
 
j williams said:
singlespeed rocks! I ride s.s that started as a specialized hardrock and got tricked out to s.s by me
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I think all of the single speed stuff available today is great. I was riding single speed fixed gear for commuting, training, and track racing way back in the 70s. Oh man I'm old! :(
 
Keith, you are definitely speaking my language! Love the Mercian and the Raleighs. I have an '82 Panasonic Sport 1000 sitting in my garage waiting for a fixie overhaul, pending funds. It seems like my projects are just piling up over time.
 
I would love to build a fixie track style bike, just another project I have on my list. Most of the s.s. stuff I have I got from Misfit Psycles out of canada. They are a great company, and customer service is top notch. I used a surly chain tensioner, crank bros platform pedals. Cranks and bottom bracket came from nashbar on huge clearence-like 8.00 for shimano cranks and 6.00 for shimano b.b. I heard somewhere that if you want to convert a geared bike, that you should have real good skewers in the wheels. I used HOPE skewers- frankly awesome IMHO. Also upgraded the handlebars, put bmx grips and bar end plugs on them, new seat T.H.E., Tires, brakes, headset, stem, and now I would like to upgrade the ridiculusly heavy rst fork. I am just waiting to find one on sale enough to snag up. I think that building a s.s. taught me alot about bike repair and maintnence, and I could have got one for what I put in mine, but it was worth the hours working on it, scouring the net and bike shops for parts, and building it w/ my own hands.
 
There's a lot of different ways to go on fixed gear these days. You can do it on the cheap with basically any 70s-80s vintage lightweight bike by replacing the freewheel with a cog and using loctite and a bottom bracket ring to help keep it in place, moving axle spacers around, and then redishing the wheel. I've done many of these for my friends. On the other end of the spectrum you can take a high end single speed/track frame and get Phil Wood hubs and Campy track components and really go to to town. I've seen a couple of local messenger bikes like that.

For several years in the 90s I went to a lot of garage sales and bought many 70s-80s vintage lightweights and 3-speeds for $5-20. I'd fix them up and sell them or give them away -- a good number as fixed gear bikes.

I built favorite commuter/training fixed gear bike was built on an old 531 Dawes frame with all Campy components.

These days my knees have a hard time with fixies, so I'm down to my Peugeot track bike that I raced on as a kid.

Local bikies call me "Lugs" because, despite the ti bikes shown above, I favor lugged steel. In fact my next project will be to transfer the Campy Chorus group to a current production lugged steel frame. Steel is real!
 
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