Let's see your favorite head-tube badges
09-20-19, 02:54 PM
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I'm am definitely a big fan of actual head badges, as opposed to decals. It's right up there with nice lugs on my list of the best features of vintage bikes. My 2013 Kona Jake came with an actual 3D badge.
It's kind of sad that by the 80's even some that had a head badge just had a piece of metal with a sticker on it. When I got my '87 Pinarello frame, in addition to having been stripped of paint, the sticker on its head badge had been removed. I'm not sure if the ghostly image of the glue residue was intentional or not.
When I had the lugs painted, they also put on a new decal, so while the condition of this says "replacement" it's technically the original head badge.
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09-20-19, 03:01 PM
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09-21-19, 02:23 AM
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Is anyone aware of a Sakae headbadge or did Sakae ever do badges? I need one.
Unrelated, I dont why the top bearing cap doesn't screw down leaving a gap there. It works as is though, smooth no binding.
Unrelated, I dont why the top bearing cap doesn't screw down leaving a gap there. It works as is though, smooth no binding.
09-21-19, 04:50 AM
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My Kabuki, so cool!
Not the best bike I own , but what a badge!
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09-21-19, 03:45 PM
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Don't need no....
The first when I got the frame, just seemed like overkill. Now, with a yellow and red Serotta, and a crazy Rossin, the Litespeed is looking tame...
As it's been for the last 3 years. I always thought the ti wedge welded to the head tube was all the badging it needed.
The badge.
Improvement, or not?
As it's been for the last 3 years. I always thought the ti wedge welded to the head tube was all the badging it needed.
The badge.
Improvement, or not?
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09-21-19, 03:58 PM
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Don't blame me...
Adding Context, the bike is a 1996 Kestrel 500SCi. I think this Ed Hardy sticker was in the box o' crap, and I didn't want my 10 yr old daughter sticking it on her Macbook.
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09-22-19, 08:04 AM
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Off my "mystery" Evans bike that originally belonged to a 3 time RAAM winner.
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09-24-19, 02:09 AM
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One of the classiest, the rare brass and glass enamel Hobbs of Barbican headbadge.
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09-24-19, 07:13 AM
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Nagasawa's is lovely (I think I'm overall a fan of the more 60s-70s modernist style badges than the ones which look like heraldry)
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09-24-19, 07:52 AM
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One of my favorites which I would like to own
One of my favorites I do own
One of my favorites I do own
09-24-19, 07:55 AM
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One more all-time favorite- some day someone will explain to me why Italians were obsessed with playing cards...
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09-24-19, 07:29 PM
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Lazzaretti- Italian, early 1970’s headbadge.
The firms founders likeness above the wolf nursing Romulus and Remus
The firms founders likeness above the wolf nursing Romulus and Remus
09-24-19, 07:38 PM
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Not many Fuji headbadges here, this was a plain jane grey metal so I added a bit of paint fill.
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