The bike you wish you still had...
10-07-08, 01:38 AM
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The bike you wish you still had...
Joining this forum has gotten me to think about all the bikes that have been in my life over the last 27 years. I have had a few, both road and mountain, but of all the bikes I've had, I only regret selling one of them: A late 70's white Pogliaghi with Campy N.R. and Wolber Arc-en-Ciel rims that I bought used in the summer between my Freshman and Sophomore years of college.
I rode it like mad, and put many thousands of miles on it, but sold it later while in the last throws of graduate school. I had seller's remorse from the moment the guy put it on his roof-rack.
What bike do you wish you still had?
I rode it like mad, and put many thousands of miles on it, but sold it later while in the last throws of graduate school. I had seller's remorse from the moment the guy put it on his roof-rack.
What bike do you wish you still had?
10-07-08, 01:44 AM
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1986 Centurion LeMans RS. It was my first road bike as a teenager after getting bit by the Greg Lemond TDF bug. I later sold it to my older brother and it was destroyed when he got hit by a car.
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10-07-08, 01:54 AM
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I had a haral frame from the mid 80s. its a french made steel frame...excel tubing. it was a time trail frame with slightly curved top and seat tubes and short wheel base. the frame had internal brake routing. I got it and built it up with delta brakes and it rode nicely. one of the problems I had was that fork was a little flexy...but all things considered, it was a bike I should have kept. a few times, one would come up on ebay.
10-07-08, 01:57 AM
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My 12" wheel Ross. First bike my dad ever gave me, the first bike I ever rode without training wheels. Where it all began I guess.
10-07-08, 01:59 AM
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mmmm pogliaghi..
i sold off a Bianchi Axis cross machine not long ago, and wish i had it now. while nothing special, it was such a good utilitarian bike that you could also train on and ride fireroads/singletracks.
now i'm looking for another.
i sold off a Bianchi Axis cross machine not long ago, and wish i had it now. while nothing special, it was such a good utilitarian bike that you could also train on and ride fireroads/singletracks.
now i'm looking for another.
10-07-08, 04:15 AM
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My Bridgestone XO-1, my Bridgestone MB-2, and my Trek 950.
10-07-08, 04:20 AM
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I built up a Viner Tretubi in 83. Man I wish I still had it. I have been looking at viner frames for a possible re-do
10-07-08, 05:06 AM
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Not a picture of my bike, but I did have this model/year:
10-07-08, 06:33 AM
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I'd like to have either bike back.
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My 1988 Serotta with TdF lugs. It was slightly long in the top tube but it was otherwise perfect. I only wish I'd not put Shimano 105 10s on it. It deserved much better and the new owner wound up putting 25th Anniversary DA on. It's now perfect and in a good home...
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10-07-08, 06:49 AM
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My 1979 JCPenny 10 speed.
it wasn't much but it was the first road bike that my dad bought me.
it wasn't much but it was the first road bike that my dad bought me.
10-07-08, 07:00 AM
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10-07-08, 07:19 AM
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My orange K-Mart special 10-speed, ca. 1972. I rode the h*ll out of that bike, and it was the first new bike I ever owned.
In '84 I bought a Fuji 12-speed deep metallic red mixte, and put a kid seat on the back, and rode around the country SE of Dallas with my toddler daughter strapped in.
I wish I had both bikes because of their classic status. I'd covert the orange bike to a SS and the Fuji would be my errand-bike.
In '84 I bought a Fuji 12-speed deep metallic red mixte, and put a kid seat on the back, and rode around the country SE of Dallas with my toddler daughter strapped in.
I wish I had both bikes because of their classic status. I'd covert the orange bike to a SS and the Fuji would be my errand-bike.
10-07-08, 07:26 AM
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10-07-08, 08:13 AM
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My 1983ish Trek 820 ...I think. It was a long time ago. It was my first real bike and I was 14 years old. I did many a century on that bike. Here is a pic. No cracks on my tube socks please
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10-07-08, 08:39 AM
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I wish I still had my AD Puch....or my Viner (many memories), or my Vitus, or my Somec. I still had the foresight to keep my early 80's Gios Torino though.
10-07-08, 08:46 AM
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My 70's Pog I messed on in MTL.
10-07-08, 09:18 AM
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Something like this would never get past the CPSC again....but it was the best bike I ever had.
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Early 60s Schwinn Speedster with the 2-speed kick-back hub. First good bike I ever had; was given to me as a birthday gift by my parents.
10-07-08, 10:11 AM
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My first real bike: a yellow Schwinn Continental that I got around 1970. Was stolen off my porch freshman year of college in '76 in Gainesville, FL. That bike was as reliable and indestructible as they come and would have made the perfect NYC bike during my 19 years living there.
10-07-08, 10:14 AM
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Ice blue 1985 Schwinn World Sport. It was a HS grad present from my folks. I rode it all through college, law school, and commuted to my first job on it. It was stolen when I drunkenly left it unlocked in front of a bar one night.
10-07-08, 10:53 AM
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I kick myself everytime I think of what a great commute bike this was.
This was a great commuter as well.
This was a great commuter as well.
10-07-08, 10:57 AM
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Holy flashbacks, HWS, that was my first real bike and the one that comes to mind first when I recall my younger riding days. 5-spd right? Man I loved that rip shifter! I can still see the faded orange banana seat in my mind's eye. Once when the chain was jumping in the rear a buddy fixed it by jamming a stick in the derailleur body somewhere. I moved on to a schwinn mag scrambler, then a blue Le Tour IV, but the orange fastback remains in memory most vividly. Thanks for the pic.