TriBiker19 

Red bar tape, yes. The red cables would be too much.

Murray Missile 

Had a small set back, after grinding away a fair amount of the steerer tube's front bottom edge, to the point I was getting into the weld, the 700 X 28 tire STILL rubbed! I ordered a pair of 700 X 25 Continental Ultra Sport II's with thin red sidewalls. I took the original Kenda Kwest 700 X 32's on an old set of 29er MTB wheels and mocked them up in my '84 Schwinn Tempo frame and they have all kinds of room in it.

Namnad510

Wow, looks awesome. I have a 87 pink and yellow Ironman and I’m browsing for ideas of what to do with it. This is inspiring.

Murray Missile 

Love those "Miami Vice" Centurions, I've never come across one around here for sale in my size but if I ever do I'll probably snag it if it's priced right.

Namnad510

Yes, mine is only a 58cm, so I think it would be too small for you. I need to post mine in the Valuation forum because I don’t know what it is worth. I got it in 1996 secondhand, and the original owner upgraded many of the parts.

3speedslow

The shop I ghost at just got in a Diamond Back Master TG for me to clean up and sell to the hobos. It has the black smoke scheme with Shimano 105sc group, DT shifting.

Cant wait to tackle it. Sized at 58.

2cam16

Like mine.

Murray Missile 

Red sidewall Contis came and I got them mounted............ not sure I'm loving them but if they stay the bar tape will definitely be black. They add about as much red as I think I can take. No pictures yet. The BB bearings are soaking, when I pulled them out there was a staple stuck to the drive side bearings. ??? There were virtually no signs of wear on the cups, bearings or axle, once the BB is back in I'll push to get it done. I've been working on other stuff like our tandem and the wife's 3 wheeler. I bought the 3 wheeler last year to flip but she put dibs on it as soon as I got it home then only rode it once. Now with Winter just around the corner she decided we should sell it..... I hope it sells quick because it takes up a lot of floor space.

Murray Missile 

Looking a little more like a bicycle, I'm liking the red sidewalls a "little" better. It's a crappy picture, it looks better in different lighting

ryansu

...wait the hobos have enough scratch to buy Ironman's? maybe I am in the wrong line of work

Murray Missile 

Thought I was going to be riding it this weekend but then I discovered I didn't have any road brake cables! Well, not any I wanted to put on this, I have one set but they're el cheapos, this deserves decent cables. The chain is on and the derailleurs are all hooked up and adjusted, just waiting for the brake cable wires to come then I can hook up the brakes and try it out. Once I get the bar and brifter positions dialed in I'll wrap the bars and get some pictures. The red sidewalls are growing on me, I'm also glad I went with the platinum cable housings, they go nicely with the red and black. My wife has commented more than once how much she liked it, usually they get, "That's nice." which is really good but this one got a "Wow, that's really sharp!" and then "I really like that." To get a reaction like that from her over one of my bikes is huge. The only other time I got that type of reaction was the hybrid I built for her a few years ago.

Murray Missile 

I RODE IT TONIGHT!!!! Still have some adjustments to make, some adhesive residue to clean up on the brake calipers and wrap the handlebars then I'll get some pictures. I haven't ridden a bike with frame geometry like this in a long, long time so it will take some getting used to but it feels really good so far. The red sidewalls aren't quite so prominent now that everything else is on and I think the braided platinum cable housings were the right choice.

ryansu

We look forward to pictures! I am looking at those same tires for a Red Specialized Allez I am rebuilding, I think 25c is about the max it will take.

Murray Missile 

Just as I rolled it out to take pics it started to sprinkle so I snapped these quickly. If the sun comes out tomorrow I'll get my wife to get some better shots, she's the photographer in the family.

TriBiker19 

That's really nice! The red/white/black is such a 90s aesthetic.

canklecat

I got a Diamondback Podium 5 from a friend who only wanted the components -- the frame was the wrong size for him. Looks good, very lightweight, good reviews. I'm guessing it's around 5 years old or so, judging from the design and what I've been able to find from Diamondback's promotional materials and videos.

For now it's just the frame, fork, original headset and crankset, and seat post. I'm cobbling it together from bits and pieces, just enough to see how it rides before deciding whether to commit to building it up with good lightweight components and wheels. My trial assembly version is gonna be weird because the only components I have that will work include an older Nitto handlebar, Shimano 10-speed bar-end shifters, and Shimano 600 Tricolor brakeset. But it'll be enough to get it running and get a feel for the bike. I suppose I could cannibalize the threadless stem, bar and brifters from the Trekenstein, but I don't want to mess up a perfectly good bike that already suits me just to experiment with another.

So far I'm impressed. The internal cable routing is really easy to redo. Unlike some frames with internal cable routing, there's no need for magnets or special long tools to snag cables and housings to fish them through the frame while cussing for hours.

The original FSA headset doesn't get much respect from Hambini, the bearing guru with a hilariously biting YouTube channel, but it appears to be a very good design that would be easy to replace with a "better" brand if I'm so inclined. Easy to disassemble, inspect and reassemble.

If you can find a Diamondback Podium frame in good shape for a reasonable price it'd be worth a try.

Murray Missile 

Got in a little more saddle time but I didn't go far, we had 4 inches of snow 3 days ago and they got a little salt happy so I avoided main roads which limited my range considerably. I think I need to scoot the saddle forward just a bit and/or a little shorter reach on the stem but otherwise it feels REALLY good! A little twitchy at slow speeds but once you pick up the pace it is very stable and has a very smooth ride. The shifters were a little stiff at first but they're smoothing out, the R8's on my GT Karakoram were the same way. It's a definite keeper.

OldManJones

I think it looks great overall, but since you added the red gumwall tires I've been wondering what it would look like without the wheel decals. I think if you ever had all black wheels it'd look cleaner and meaner-like my wife after her morning shower.

Murray Missile 

Thank you, it rides even better! The tires aren't red gumwalls though, they just have a thin red stripe on the sidewall. I photo shopped the wheel decals out and the wheels looked too plain against the rest of it. I think it needs something in between the rollling billboards on it now and plain black but it will have to stay as is for quite awhile, other bikes are crying for attention.