It's Orange Bike Month
10-05-17, 10:46 PM
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It's Orange Bike Month
Please, can I see them again? And I know there were a few orange acquisitions this year - one as recently as a week ago - so let's see them here, too 
Sparrow:
Davidson:
Colnago:
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10-06-17, 01:45 AM
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The Great Pumpkin would be proud, beautiful orange cycles, good call DD. 
10-06-17, 02:24 AM
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Well, since you asked, I guess I'm the week ago....
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10-06-17, 03:05 AM
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Great! Just found this lovely old orange bike at the dump and I know someone who will love it...
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10-06-17, 03:58 AM
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Really need to take some new pics, but for now you'll have to make do with the recycled ones.
1977 Gazelle Champion Mondial E.2 Superbe, as bought:
1980 Koga-Miyata Gentsluxe-S. Part of the Pro-Racing series in the line-up of that year, together with the Fullpro and the Fullpro-L. Came with Dura-Ace EX, and one of the prettiest Kogas ever made, IMO:
Late seventies Giovanni. Belgian-built for Sportshop Slikker in Heerhugowaard:
1969 Fongers-built RIH, which I wish wasn't this small:
Early eighties Sprey, from a small LBS in Aalsmeer, who built some of his own frames in the eighties:
Early eighties "Sprinter". Unidentified builder, probably re-done with generic decals at some point in time. One of my lightest bikes at exactly 10kg:
Seventies (?) unidentified bike, which I bought as a frameset and built up for the Retroronde a couple of years ago. I like it a lot:
1977 Gazelle Champion Mondial E.2 Superbe, as bought:
1980 Koga-Miyata Gentsluxe-S. Part of the Pro-Racing series in the line-up of that year, together with the Fullpro and the Fullpro-L. Came with Dura-Ace EX, and one of the prettiest Kogas ever made, IMO:
Late seventies Giovanni. Belgian-built for Sportshop Slikker in Heerhugowaard:
1969 Fongers-built RIH, which I wish wasn't this small:
Early eighties Sprey, from a small LBS in Aalsmeer, who built some of his own frames in the eighties:
Early eighties "Sprinter". Unidentified builder, probably re-done with generic decals at some point in time. One of my lightest bikes at exactly 10kg:
Seventies (?) unidentified bike, which I bought as a frameset and built up for the Retroronde a couple of years ago. I like it a lot:
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10-06-17, 05:28 AM
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I got this bike back in 1993. It was ordered with custom geometry(by me), which primarily amounted to a slightly slacker seat angle and a slightly longer top tube. When I received the bike, there was a small piece of paper (which I still have *somewhere*) that had three or four lines and a blank following to list the builder, who did the final prep, etc. The top line says 'fabricca-Doriano'. On the headtube, he turned the tube in such a way that the Columbus trademark, stamped/engraved into the tube was facing to the back and when the frame was finished that took precautions so that it remained visible. Most importantly, this thing rides beautifully....
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10-06-17, 05:52 AM
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All of these are gone but not forgotten:
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10-06-17, 08:44 AM
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This thread and my previous post prompted me to hop in my car take a trip to Aalsmeer with the orange Sprey, and to go see if I could find the man whose name is on the frame.
Found him in his workshop, and he was so kind as to tolerate my nosiness for a while. He told me that while he liked building his own frames, he found out after a while that he wasn't actually making any money on them, and reverted to buying them elsewhere. This particular frame, he told me, was made by Viner. I just did a quick check, and it is indeed an exact match to a blue Viner (Record, I think) frame I have in the attic. Should have seen that myself. 
Anyway, here's Daan Spreij, with a bike he sold some thirty-five years ago:
Found him in his workshop, and he was so kind as to tolerate my nosiness for a while.
He told me that while he liked building his own frames, he found out after a while that he wasn't actually making any money on them, and reverted to buying them elsewhere. This particular frame, he told me, was made by Viner. I just did a quick check, and it is indeed an exact match to a blue Viner (Record, I think) frame I have in the attic. Should have seen that myself. Anyway, here's Daan Spreij, with a bike he sold some thirty-five years ago:
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10-06-17, 08:54 AM
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Well now I'm jealous, I don't have an orange bike!
So here's an orange saddle:
So here's an orange saddle:
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10-06-17, 09:05 AM
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Orange Vintage Mountain Bike by pond
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Orange not Vintage Mountain bike by the same pond
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Just for fun, orange beard (which has gotten more white since then)
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10-06-17, 10:19 AM
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Orange Bike Month already?? Where does the year go?
Here's my sport-touring-ish bike, built by local-ish frame builder Gordon Borthwick in 1989...
Steve in Peoria-ish
Here's my sport-touring-ish bike, built by local-ish frame builder Gordon Borthwick in 1989...
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10-06-17, 10:44 AM
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Does Chestnut count? It's kind of burnt orange.
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While not orange, and being from 64, seems the original paint really wants to be orange:
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Yay sun fading!
Untitled by David Ashe, on FlickrYay sun fading!
10-06-17, 11:49 AM
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Ok, I'll play.
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10-06-17, 12:51 PM
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This one is not mine. I saw it in Hindman, KY back in August but I did not see the owner around. Hindman is a common stopping point on the TransAmerica Bike Route.
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10-06-17, 12:54 PM
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I don't care what color it is - that's beautiful
@non-fixie: I think you've cornered the orange bike market! Never seen a collection here with so much orange as yours
DD
@non-fixie: I think you've cornered the orange bike market! Never seen a collection here with so much orange as yours
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