March is for brown and gold bikes
 

Well, it's Mud Season, so that means brown, and gold can go along with that.

Show us your brown bikes, your gold bikes, and maybe even your brown and gold bikes.

This time I remember I have one. It's a 1973 Raleigh Twenty, unfinished for literally years. I rebuilt both wheels. The front has a Sturmey Archer drum brake hub whose inside are all scrape-y, so I have to smooth that out. The rear wheel has the original AW hub, and both have aluminum rims. I'm switching to a 1" threadless headset. To make it all fit, I need to shorten the head tube. The rear brake doesn't work well, but the front brake is good, a whole lot better than the unconscionably bad original front caliper brake.


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Brown and gold. Soon to be converted to 700c.

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@Sir_Name, fixed or free?

1982 Trek 720
 

1982 Trek 720; some of the posters affectionately call this color "poo" brown:

As pictured free, but a big part of the 700c swap is a Normandy flip flop hub. It’ll be my first venture into riding fixed, so should be interesting. It was supposed to be my winter bike this year but a move got in the way of those plans. Just need to final tension the rear wheel, get some tires, install some Mafac Racers I have put aside, and a couple other odds and ends before riding. Hoping it’ll be a good rain bike for the spring.

My recently resurrected 1974 Motobecane Grand Touring fits the bill perfectly!

Kinda brown and gold at the same time. 64 Moulton 4 Speed with upgrades.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9B...=w1170-h896-no

My Bianchi. I owe you a picture. :)

Built up this Coffee brown 1969 Super Course as a town bike for a friend, before that it had been sitting in his basement for at least two decades as a neglected road bike.

before
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4289/...50c8c5a6_k.jpgSuper course beginning by Ryan Surface, on Flickr

after
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4247/...7380458c_h.jpgSuper course finished by Ryan Surface, on Flickr

Yay!

My favorite brown bike:

https://myalbum.com/photo/7fxMGaHHxaSk/1k0.jpg

More brown:

https://myalbum.com/photo/TTlXvRlJkEbz/1k0.jpg

Gold:

https://myalbum.com/photo/5JVj8ALK3aGD/1k0.jpg

A pair of Raleigh Sports
 

These are my only brown bikes, Raleighs from the 1970's.

Raleigh built supercycles sold at Canadian Tire
 

Both these girls are small frame early 70's Raleighs with Sturmey-Archer AW hubs.
Different shades of gold. Hurry spring!

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DD

1981 trek 610
 

Originally came to me as blue but currently my favorite TREK color, chestnut.

Simply stunning...

Rodriguez Seattle Trillium
 

Brown and Gold it is

http://i.imgur.com/tKHU0pjh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sSpHiIMh.jpg
Gazelle Grand Tourist

Love my old Dawes...
https://s5.postimg.org/m83g1otdj/DSC_3173.jpg

Ah, the bike that went to Paris. :)

It's not classic and although it's a 1982 I wouldn't call it vintage either but it IS brown and gold........

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/oF0d7H.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/V1cSam.jpg

Not the prettiest thing but it rides oh so sweet, better than it has any right to. It's getting another overhaul in the next week or so with vintage Suntour XCE drivetrain, a 3 pc. Sakae triple crankset and better Araya rims on Suntour hubs.