Primitive Don

Thanks for the assist!

Kdogbikes

83 trek 520? Advertised as 500 but has triple crank. Picked this up while on vac in NC. been able to take it out on a couple short local rides. Going to need a work when I get home next week. Rigida rims spin true. Really cool for me to have Reynolds sticker in my stable.

Bikedued

Maybe a future catch, if they ever come down from the clouds. They posted it last week for $300, and I emailed. Zero response. Good, bad, or ugly. They post it again this week for $20 less. If they get below $200 I will consider it, actually around $100-$125 would get me to buy it. I know it's nothing special, but you don't see these too often, especially in this condition. I just like them, since they have that Professional style blue paint, bar ends, etc. I found one 7-8 years ago at the flea market, but it was a 27 inch frame. Gigantic in other words. Playing the wait and watch game for now. Any of you Houston guys know this person?,,,,BD

RALEIGH SUPER GRAND PRIX TOURING BIKE


Here's the one I found way back when. HEE YOOGE!

Azekii2

Catch of last week more like, early 70s Schwinn Super Sport. $40 and even came with a set of red label Arayas. Weird mix of components but the best part is the 3 piece crank and it fits my wife (French fit) pretty well. I'm happy

Bikedued

Campus green too. You hardly ever see them that color. I usually only see opaque blue or yellow.,,,,BD

rjhammett

I picked up this Benotto Modelo 2000 recently for $75. It was a real mix of components (all pretty nice). I gave it an overhaul and put Shimano 105 on it which I had. It is going to my daughter. BTW, there are no cracks near the bottom bracket.

SingleSpeeDemon

Scored this one on Saturday for $50.

ratfink76

AMAZING score:

rekmeyata

I 2nd that!!! That's incredible and an awesome find

SingleSpeeDemon

That's exactly what I told my wife when I told her I found another bike.

tyler_fred

Are you kidding me!?!?!? You suck!!! Just kidding...Great score!

rekmeyata

yeah, I bet she was jumping up and down with joy and glee, like mine does whenever I find another bike...

cycleheimer

No matter how good a bike score is, I've learned it's best to hide the kitchen knives before you bring the bike home.

Murray Missile 

OK, I know it's a lousy VARSITY............. but it looked so lonely I couldn't help myself. Bought it cheap from the original owner's son, it has some battle scars but everything works great except the brakes. OLD rock hard brake pads on steel rims, well, you know. Built November of 1974, it's one size too big but I can ride it, I just wish the "dance floor" was a little bigger. Tires don't match but both are in good shape and the rear is a fairly new Bontrager that still has the mold flash down the center. The fenders are in excellent condition, if I don't keep this one I will be keeping the fenders.

arex

I got a Varsity for my 9th birthday in '73, since I'd outgrown my 20" Royce Union in just a few years. Outgrew the Varsity pretty quickly, too, if I remember right. I was something of a mutant growing up. That Varsity took me a lot of places.

3speedslow

wait till you do take them off and find out where 5 lbs of the bike weight comes from. They are nice though, I have a pair saved up in the rafters. Why I have no idea. They are sized to the frame I believe.

oddjob2

Make's Mini look Maxi. Just got this tonight for a friend's 1 year old, who has been walking already for 2 months. Nice for a Jackson portrait.

Murray Missile 

I've swapped Schwinn fenders between different size frames before. I even put fenders off a 27" Collegiate on a 26" Probe MTB...... the tire to fender line on the front was off a little but the rear was perfect.

3speedslow

That is a good looking conversion! Might need to take a second run at using the fenders.

trail_monkey

Sorry it's not drive side pic. Rescued from a pile of bikes behind a guys house the other day. 1985 Panasonic DX 3000. Price=FREE!

game_player_s

Was on a sort of working vacation last week, complicated, but have a place I can stow say, a bike or two at relatives down there and ended up buying not one, but two bikes at yard sales on Saturday. First bike was anything but vintage, some otherwise un-noteworthy Wal*Mart "Next Avalon" branded affairs but was a mere ten bucks and the person selling it had already sorted out all of the usual cringe-worthy build issues, but a accident had put a nasty kink in the gear shift cable so it's stuck in a low gear until I can replace said cable.


But this is clearly not the bicycle that brought me to this site. No, about two hours later that morning I came across this rusty beauty, a Giant Excursion at the super fantastic price of a mere $20... plus the hundred or so it's going to end up costing for replacement parts.

PugRider

Hey oddjob quick question: how do you use the plastic post/bar thing between the clamps on the left side of your rack? I picked up the same rack at the Salvation Army a while back and can't quite figure out what its purpose is.

Glennfordx4

That's cool, I recently worked on a little kids bike installing new tires & tubes, a little boy who just turned 3 owned it and as soon as I was done fixing it I saw how the tires got so worn. This little kid was a natural and already rides better then most kids twice his age, I got such a kick watching him ride like a little speed demon on the sidewalks around are shop with mom trying to keep up making sure he wasn't going into the street lol. He knew how to stand up & pedal to get speed and was sprinting all over the place. The entrance to our front door is slightly ramped, he would sprint up one side then really mash on the pedals going down the other side & was really moving along.

His parents told me he has a older brother (4 1/2 yrs old ) that also has been riding since he was two & moved up to a 18" tired BMX bike. They told me they never let either one see the bike with the training wheels on & removed them right away. The mom said they got some kind of balance bike that they would ride around in the house and that made the transition to a two wheeler very easy for them. I know some kids that didn't learn how to ride a bike until they were 12 & 13 & even now many yrs later are not that good on a bike.

Glenn

oddjob2

It kind of keeps two bikes from slamming into one another. I suppose if you used a bungee with it, it would do a better job. The only thing I don't like about the rack is that the holders slide a bit too much. I'll probably silicone them in place.

PugRider

Alrighty, thanks for the info. I had it doing all sorts of weird things trying to figure out what it did. Sweet bike, too, staged like it's in the "Hot or Not" thread.