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Old 12-14-12, 08:26 PM
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What's your weirdest build

On my other projects I stressed about getting all the right parts, but on this one I wanted to have a little fun and just use parts that I liked the look of regardless of performance. The bike is going to be used strictly as a putter so I'm not concerned.

Randonneur bars with a pivo stem
Modolo levers and elk hide sew up wrap
Universal extra brakes, campy Valentino derailleurs.
Cottered cranks and 27" wheels with campy h/f hubs and a brooks
Saddle. It's coming together nice and I really like the looks.
Anyone else do something like this.
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Old 12-14-12, 09:37 PM
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Dunno if it's weird, but definitely a mixed bag on the '72 Paramount I recently built up:

Campy Athena 53/39 crankset (ca. 90's)
Shimano 105 RD (ca. 80's)
Campy shifters (ca. mid-60's)
Shimano 60 FD (ca. late 70's)
Shimano 105 brake levers (ca. 80's)
Dia-Compe center pull calipers (ca. late 70's)
SR seat pin (ca. 80's)
Selle Italia Turbo Bernard Hinault saddle (ca. 1984)
Cinelli stem and bars (new logo, ca. 80's)
Bontrager bar wrap (2011)
Maxxis tires (2008)
Shimano 105 hubs laced to anodized Wolber Super Champion rims (700c) spaced to five speed... (ca. 80's)
Lyotard pedals (date?)

...Hmmm. Five decades and God knows how many nationalities represented. (Probably should have gone with Zeus Criterium RD just to give the Spaniards a nod.)
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it sounds like your build is the history of modern bicycle itself. awesome!
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I still have an early Schwinn Mirada that came with 650b rims. The back rim was warped. After a few broken spokes, I hacked the frame to fit 700c rims with 135 mm spacing. Stock was 126. Fitted V-brakes, 8 speed rear cluster, and new cyclocross tires. It works, but the handling is ocean liner quicker and my size 12 feet hit the front tire on tight turns.

It's going to be retired.
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Probably the '64 Typhoon path racer;

This is before I found the chrome tank. Fun but the Continental frame is just that much more sure on it's feet with 27s.
There was the 18 speed half step with the 11-36 9 speed in back;

There's a nice, long shallow 3 mile hill near here and I used most of those gears, but it's through a bad neighborhood and I was spending too much time monkeying with the shifters to remember to enjoy the ride.
Then there was the Berty Bott's Every Flavor Bike;

Swiss frame, Italian gears, English saddle and bars, German pedals, Belgian brakes, French tires and a bunch of Japanese stuff. I was going to tidy it up a bit but I finally had to admit that I had a lotta money tied up in a frame that was too small for me.
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Easy answer for me...my Flying Scot...left side drive. Don't know why, just because.

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Naw, that's a cell phone picture.
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Originally Posted by Flying Merkel
I still have an early Schwinn Mirada that came with 650b rims. The back rim was warped. After a few broken spokes, I hacked the frame to fit 700c rims with 135 mm spacing. Stock was 126. Fitted V-brakes, 8 speed rear cluster, and new cyclocross tires. It works, but the handling is ocean liner quicker and my size 12 feet hit the front tire on tight turns.

It's going to be retired.
Geez, why not just a new 650B rear rim and return the geometry to stock?
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I'm working on an abomination right now, but can't post pictures just yet. Waiting on a stem from China.
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'79 Allentown Ross Aristocrat:

Mistral rims
Maillard hubs & skewers
Dura-Ace calipers
Mafac levers
DiaCompe stem
GB bars
Tressostar tape
Avocet saddle
Raleigh seat clamp
Cyclone derailleurs
Suntour shifters
Sakae cranset
Kyokuto pedals
Pasela tires

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nice bikes, so far i think i have had the most fun with this bike. not being able to find very many maino's i just got the creative juices flowing and am building it the way i want. couple updated pics..
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Mystery frame, vintage brooks, ugly modern seat pillar, cheapo fixie wheels with generic Taiwanese hubs and Alex rims and off-brand shimano imitations crank. Bike boom chrome steel handlebar on a short SR stem, tange levin headset and MKS pedals.


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Waiting for 65er......
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Originally Posted by sailorbenjamin
Naw, that's a cell phone picture.
directed a the flying scot? me?
It was something i had always wanted to do. So i went out on the limb.
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This thing is kind of mixed (*groan*) bag of parts:



frame is a Canadian Peugeot, SA hubs, VO fenders, Topeak Rack, SR stem and rando bars. "Custom A" (??) crank and generic BMX pedals. Altenburger brake levers and a bianchi branded saddle to top it all off the frame is clearly a bit small for me!
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it's not really *that* weird but my 86 DB Apex is a mishmash of parts from various donors

Frame came with cranks, bb, headset, seat post and saddle, and rack
Handlebars, chainring, chain, RD, front cantis and wheels (i think) from a 1990s GT mtb
Random steel stem from some low end mtb
Handlebar tape from a 1988 Schwinn Prelude
Brake levers and thumb shifter from a 1980s Schwinn kids 5 speed bike
Rear ubrake free from the LBS (just had to buy new brake pads from the LBS to get it)
Red bottle cage i got for free from craigslist

i basically spent no money on this build.. all the donor bikes were free or so cheap that i made $ selling the parts on CL. and somehow it's my favorite bike and the one i trust the most


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Originally Posted by frantik
it's not really *that* weird but my 86 DB Apex is a mishmash of parts from various donors

Frame came with cranks, bb, headset, seat post and saddle
Handlebars, chainring, chain, RD, front cantis and wheels (i think) from a 1990s GT mtb
Random steel stem from some low end mtb
Handlebar tape from a 1988 Schwinn Prelude
Brake levers and thumb shifter from a 1980s Schwinn kids 5 speed bike
Rear ubrake free from the LBS (just had to buy new brake pads from the LBS to get it)


Dammit boy! You forgot to rob the GT stem too! Love that bike still though.
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Gitane mixte rat bike built for a friend,





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11-34, 10 speed cassette
Shimano XT RD
Campagnolo NR era FD
Paul Racer Center Pulls
Electra 50.4 Cranks w/ VO Rings
Dual sided pedals (SPD& Platform)
10 speed indexed Shimano Bar-end shifters
Ultegra Hubs w/ Open Pro rims & 35mm Vittoria tires
VO Seat Post
Brooks Imperial
Nitto Front Rack w/ Acorn Handle bar bag
FSA headset
Nitto Noodle handle bars (46cm)
Nitto lugged Stem
Shellaced red, cloth Tape
Honjo La Paeon Fenders
Cane Creek Aero Levers

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This VVVVVV used to be a 1969 Sears Spyder with 24 inch wheels, now its.....well......yeah.

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Originally Posted by RaleighSport
Dammit boy! You forgot to rob the GT stem too!
haha i would have but the stem was painted to match the GT frame. the one i have now is perfect as far as height and reach anyways so i'm not complaining. The GT's handlebars are heavy steel too.. i've actually wanted to swap them out for some lighter ones, but have been hesitant to do any wrenching


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[QUOTE=frantik;15053989]haha i would have but the stem was painted to match the GT frame. the one i have now is perfect as far as height and reach anyways so i'm not complaining. The GT's handlebars are heavy steel too.. i've actually wanted to swap them out for some lighter ones, but have been hesitant to do any wrenching




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Hot frame there ! What model is that and what year ? Looks like the GT I just picked up recently, 'cept your has a quill stem and suspension fork.
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^ i'm not sure.. I bought it last year for parts and sold the frame. The decals had already been stripped when I got it, but I'd guess early-mid 90s based on the paint and components. It was after biopace but before vbrakes, and the frame material is tange (so before truetemper took over), and as you say 1" suspension fork... all signs of the 90s lol


looking at the GT now I kinda wish I had kept it.. at the time I was into road bikes and had very little interest in MTBs. It wasn't until I completed the DB build, and then crashed on my road bike, that I started to ride MTBs almost exclusively

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Originally Posted by pamaguahiker
directed a the flying scot? me?
Yeah, I was just teasing, though. I'm tempted to have a go at that myself someday
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