dddd

I'm loving these antiques amd the 3Rensho and......

I've done a half-dozen group training rides alongside the modern riders on this 1952 E. Christophe (built by Automoto), and the "suicide-shift" double-clanger front derailer gets a lot of attention.
Meanwhile, the bike's 77-degree frame angles get my attention every time I have to take one hand off of the bars to shift or to grab for the bike's waterbottle.

kookaburra1701

My '87 Schwinn Tempo. It's not really special as far as C&V goes, but I've had local race teams out for training rides do u-turns to catch up to me and ask me about it.

IthaDan 

rekmeyata

What a cool looking bike, I love that. The geometry does seem a bit odd, you have a very compact rake on the fork and head tube almost straight up and down, but the rear rake has a touring rake by todays standards. And does the rear stay spoons wrapped entirely around the seat tube?

Don't you ever sell that bike.

sloar 

i live in a non-biking town. people dont know the difference between a colnago and a wal-mart bike. but my pinarello gets a lot of attention due to the funky frame..

RaleighSport

Yay another 87 Tempo in the thread! Man that thing looks clean and almost still stock isn't it?

cehowardGS

Sheesh, that bike got funky everything.

sloar 

the bike really is comfortable, believe it or not. i just did an 80 mile ride saturday averaging 18.5mph. felt pretty good.

orangeology

no wonder that light blue Tempo's getting attention. what a beautiful bike!
complementing it with all the white tidbits, so elegantly done.

dddd

Thanks for the complement!
I added a "before" photo below, with the original, hardened Henri Gautier saddle.
You can see that someone positioned the TDF derailer cage upside-down, as if it were a modern derailer, and the brake levers appear to possibly have been modified by bending(?).
The original, too-short seatpost is aluminum and wasn't stuck frozen iir.
The original chain was Yellorex by Sedis, the racing standard at the time.
Gearing was 50-47 and 14-16-18-20, since revised to 50-45 and 14-17-20-24.
Brakes are LAM, still with rock-hard pads in the photo below.

The seatstay ends are almost full-wrap, with just 4-5mm between tips.

By "touring rake" or "rear rake", do you mean the chainstay length?

The seat tube angle on this bike is also super-steep at around 77 degrees, which helps this 56cm frame feel a little longer ahead of the bottom bracket, a good thing since the stem reach is only 8 or 9cm.
Looking at photos, the frame angles often aren't represented accurately, due to parallax and fisheye lens effects, but I've measured the frame's angles and they are crazy-steep, just like some of the 1975-1976 Peugeot PX10's angles (the ones usually referred to as Thevenet-era or LE-model geometry).
The steep angles really help the bike to climb steep hills even with the limited 8-speed (4X2) gearing.

This bike changed hands 3 times for zero cash, and the guy who gave it to me insisted that I not modify it.

It was picked up 4 years ago (for free) by a garage sale-searching thrift store owner, who gave it to my cyclist friend, who gave it to me.

BEFORE:


And AFTER:

sloar 

dddd, i love that bike man, i would love to find a bike with a suicide front shifter. nice work.

kookaburra1701

I took this photo right after this year's spring cleaning - it's not nearly so shiny at this point in the summer. It still has all of the Shimano 105 components, but someone in this bicycle's past went all out on the wheels - Mavic rims with Bullseye sealed bearing hubs. When the bicycle came to me, it had a giant gel saddle and a rear rack, and I think had most recently been used for some light touring. I added the Serfas Carma saddle and the dual-sided pedals. I've also just put on some Panaracer Pasela Tourguard tires so it has that nice gum-wall look again.

jimmuller 

How does that work with the shifter on the door next to the bike? Does the door go on a side-by-side trailer?

richpool

I have a few that always grab the attention of others. One thats going through major changes, Im sure im annoying you all with the bikes I post but I just cant help it (sorry).

I sold this 1988 tempo recently, and kind of wish I didnt. It was just a little too beat up for my standards though.



My all black Trek Earl which is my errands bike surprisingly gets me stopped a lot. I think its just the split top tube. It really is nothing fancy at all.





Last is my all time favorite bike and it gets lots of attention. 1988 Cannondale SR500 Team Crest in the process of going to full Shimano 105 5700 series, a Thomson seat post and Fizik Antares VS. It will also get black wheels.

RaleighSport

Very nice! My black and white abomination in this thread is also an 87 Tempo btw I tried a full 1055 group on there but graduated mine to a more touring build.. however mine came as only frame/fork.

southpawboston

My Shogun 650B conversion seems to generate the most attention of any of my bikes (my favorite bike, my Mercian, never gets any attention; people see it and think, old 10-speed).

RaleighSport

Yeah if I saw you going the other way on that I might U-ey and check it out, very classy IMO.

Flog00

My bikes never get noticed.

My daughters Schwinn Tempo does though.


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RaleighSport

She's still riding it eh? Now that's very cool.

MookieBlaylock

Be honest... do any of you go out and take these pictures once a thread starts or do you all have them on file? haha

Velognome 

Got my attention!

gomango

I would stop, stare and drool on the poor thing.

Love it.

Color scheme reminds me of a MAP bicycle I keep looking at on Flickr!

southpawboston

Thanks! The last comment it got was last week in a tiny hamlet in the Catskill Mtns. A guy saw it leaned on a post outside the store I had gone into, and noticed the Berthoud saddle and Soubitez taillight. He came in to find me and tell me he's French, grew up in Paris near the Singer shop, and that he owns a Singer and a Herse, and a Weigle. He was stunned to hear that I know Peter Weigle personally. Turns out he lives not two miles, as the crow flies, from my summer house (20 miles from where this encounter was). Strange world!

gomango

Yes, it is a small world, isn't it.

A bike like yours though, seems like a wise solution.

It has loads of character and style, yet it looks like it is used as intended.

Sometimes we build beautiful bicycles that just don't see enough use.

I am certainly guilty of that!

Again, love your bike and I am waiting patiently for your Stag build.

I am certain it will be worth the wait.

Poguemahone

Easily in first place, by a wide wide wide margin over the Serotta track bike:



Even people in cars and pedestrians comment on this one. My other bikes, never.