Farthest away frame/bike?
01-26-24, 04:08 PM
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Farthest away frame/bike?
As a segue to the how far have you driven?
Whats the farthest away a bike or frame came to you from?
Mine was Oz, traded a way too small EM 10th Anniversary TSX frame in ok shape for a Tribute 10th in my size with fantastic new paint.
Icky carbon fork but the paint is some of the best I have ever seen so......
Whats the farthest away a bike or frame came to you from?
Mine was Oz, traded a way too small EM 10th Anniversary TSX frame in ok shape for a Tribute 10th in my size with fantastic new paint.
Icky carbon fork but the paint is some of the best I have ever seen so......
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01-26-24, 05:05 PM
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01-26-24, 05:49 PM
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From Thunder Bay, Canada. 6,202 kilometers from my home here in Holland.
The bike in question? A C$80 Mercier:
The bike in question? A C$80 Mercier:
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All the way from France to little old New Zealand .
Was right in the middle of all the covid madness .
Bought it on Ebay , then had the sale cancelled by the vendor
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I reached out to a contact in France who managed to facilitate the purchase successfully .
753 ex Peugeot team riders machine
Was right in the middle of all the covid madness .
Bought it on Ebay , then had the sale cancelled by the vendor
.I reached out to a contact in France who managed to facilitate the purchase successfully .
753 ex Peugeot team riders machine
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Furthest bike frame was from the UK to Illinois, a non-C&V NOS VooDoo Marasa I'm building as a 1X, the frame was CHEAP and shipping was pretty reasonable so it was worth it. I've paid more for shipping a frame from inside the US. Furthest C & V frame is probably a tie between Oregon and California.
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5200 miles from Lyon, France to Houston, TX for my 1955 Liberia.
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01-26-24, 06:19 PM
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I've imported around a dozen frames and complete bikes from Japan. Sometimes it's been a very easy process with quick shipping, and sometimes it's taken over a year and required facilitation from a Tokyo-based bike store. One time a frame arrived from Japan with no box, just the bare frame & fork wrapped in a layer of bubble-wrap. Amazingly it was undamaged. In 2015 I bought a few sets of track dropouts from Russia; a guy there was making copies of Zeus and Campagnolo dropouts for $10 a set. They took forever to arrive in the USA but I'm still riding a track bike I made that uses the Zeus-copy set.
Furthest I've shipped a bike would either be South Korea (sold a pair of randonneur bikes to a bicycle-themed coffeehouse in Seoul) or Singapore. One time a guy in Malaysia bought a carbon wheelset from me and I had to inform him that the shipping would cost more than the wheelset. I was happy he cancelled the purchase.
Furthest I've shipped a bike would either be South Korea (sold a pair of randonneur bikes to a bicycle-themed coffeehouse in Seoul) or Singapore. One time a guy in Malaysia bought a carbon wheelset from me and I had to inform him that the shipping would cost more than the wheelset. I was happy he cancelled the purchase.
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01-26-24, 06:52 PM
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Australia to Brooklyn. NOS 1982 Guerciotti frameset. I had it for about six years and never built it up. Before I moved last year, I sold off all my spare framesets and that one went.
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I'm in California, purchased a 1979 Stollenwerk road bike (German) from a seller in Poland.
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01-26-24, 07:12 PM
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2,835 miles - New York to California.
1 party transaction, shipped from me to me, when I was home visiting the family. Zero bike transfer.
1 party transaction, shipped from me to me, when I was home visiting the family. Zero bike transfer.
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My Pinarello Montello.
IIRC, it came from eastern part of Canada and shipped to SF Bay area, where I live.
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Like most everyone, mine would have to be from Taiwan or Japan. However, I have two that came from perhaps the closest. The frames for both are were built 28 miles from me.
I also have a Moots that was built 157 miles from my house.
I also have a Moots that was built 157 miles from my house.
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01-26-24, 07:59 PM
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All the way from France to little old New Zealand .
Was right in the middle of all the covid madness .
Bought it on Ebay , then had the sale cancelled by the vendor.
I reached out to a contact in France who managed to facilitate the purchase successfully .
753 ex Peugeot team riders machine
Was right in the middle of all the covid madness .
Bought it on Ebay , then had the sale cancelled by the vendor
.I reached out to a contact in France who managed to facilitate the purchase successfully .
753 ex Peugeot team riders machine
Google tells me it is 18,000 kms ? oh my !
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I had a late-'50s Ladies 650B Follis shipped from France to the US, back before shipping rates became prohibitively expensive.
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My Witcomb, bought from nlermer in Boston, who sent it to gugie in Portland for some work, I got it in Pennsylvania and brought it to Cambodia to build up and ride. I have since taken it back to Lancaster Pa.
It has been around the world and across North American twice.
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Used bikes and frames shipped from the UK. New bikes and frames from Taiwan, China, Japan. But I suppose I could also count the used bikes and frames that started their lives in France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, and probably a few others I'm not remembering.
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01-26-24, 10:21 PM
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Guess I should have thought it through a little more, should have excluded new, direct, mail order or the like, oh well.
One off, individual, actual C+V are the target here.
Oh well.
One off, individual, actual C+V are the target here.
Oh well.
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Bought a mid-90's NOS Colnago Tecnos frameset, shipped from Rome around 2010.
Planned a full period-correct build, using Dura Ace components.
Lost track of it after my divorce - either my ex or an ex-GF kept it.
Built a new wheelset with a rare pair of Mavic Open 4CD's. That met the same fate.
Crap gives me fits every time I think about it.
Planned a full period-correct build, using Dura Ace components.
Lost track of it after my divorce - either my ex or an ex-GF kept it.
Built a new wheelset with a rare pair of Mavic Open 4CD's. That met the same fate.
Crap gives me fits every time I think about it.
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Serious bonus points for the multicolored cable housings.
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On the very first night of our first as-a-couple Big Road Trip back in 1997, my sister in New Mexico gave me back my old Univega touring bike she used in college and for a few years afterward. However, we were eastbound, and that bike rode tied on the top of the truck shell all the way out to Wisconsin and upper Michigan and back for several weeks, through the rain, heat, wind, and bugs - many thousands of miles.
And then it sat for years in rusty decrepit shape until I rebuilt it as a neighborhood 6 speed, then a 3 speed, and now semi-permanently as a fixie.
And then it sat for years in rusty decrepit shape until I rebuilt it as a neighborhood 6 speed, then a 3 speed, and now semi-permanently as a fixie.
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As a segue to the how far have you driven?
Whats the farthest away a bike or frame came to you from?
Mine was Oz, traded a way too small EM 10th Anniversary TSX frame in ok shape for a Tribute 10th in my size with fantastic new paint.
Icky carbon fork but the paint is some of the best I have ever seen so......
Whats the farthest away a bike or frame came to you from?
Mine was Oz, traded a way too small EM 10th Anniversary TSX frame in ok shape for a Tribute 10th in my size with fantastic new paint.
Icky carbon fork but the paint is some of the best I have ever seen so......
My record distance, my hot pink Franceso Moser as a frameset; 10106 miles, from London to Adelaide, South Australia.
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01-26-24, 11:32 PM
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merziac , did this come from Steve Whitby in Cessnock by any chance?
My record distance, my hot pink Franceso Moser as a frameset; 10106 miles, from London to Adelaide, South Australia.
My record distance, my hot pink Franceso Moser as a frameset; 10106 miles, from London to Adelaide, South Australia.
Yep, good guy, great deal, all good except the guy I got the too small one to trade from wasn't happy.
https://www.millfieldvelo.com.au/fra...x-10th-tsx-56/
Didn't blame him, it was a great special deal, I got it on account of my supposed collecting chops.
I should have kept the fork but didn't want to separate frame/fork or have to change/modify the steerer.
Couldn't be helped, the tribute bike is stunning and the frame it has was from a batch of one offs that were discovered in a warehouse, verified and approved by Jacek/CyclesMakaron.
So 7600 miles for this one.
Win, win.
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