1958 Motobecane
 

Here is mine, just off the work stand. More pics and story on the link below.

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Oh, that is cool.

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I really liked your write up on your Wordpress page. It's definitely a great piece.

stunning! I am still torn up over the '55 Peugeot that I missed earlier this year. Looked very much like yours with a very similar spec. Just couldn't get the shop folks to cooperate over the phone before it was gone.

1985 Miyata 610

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Brake lever hoods should arrive on Wednesday. Install those and I'm done.

Bought this through facilitation in late September. Through more facilitation I picked it up Thanksgiving weekend. I've been working on it since.

Tires and brake bads, both original, look to have maybe a few hundred miles in wear, or, translated, seven or eight miles a year ridden. I completely disassembled anyway (including even the skewers), cleaned and reassembled. I got a set of Suntour Cylclone Mk II deraileurs for $20 on CL (the GT rear, so longer cage) to replace the stock Shimano (I prefer Suntour) and another $20 on CL for Suntour barcons and clamp on dt cable stop (had to take steel wool to the latter, now sparkles like new). I also replaced the caged bearing rings in the headset with loose bearings. Hubs and BB are sealed and they were fine. Replaced cables and housing. Decided to use the tektro hangers instead of the stamped steel that's ugly and tough to adjust. Not crazy about the silver logo on the bar tape, but maybe it will wear off in time.

Can't wait to get out and ride in the spring.

What a great looking bike! I dig the top tube-mounted shifter. Too bad about the shipping damage, but nice work on the fender repair. I enjoyed skimming through your blog, too. Congrats & many happy miles!

That's a great looking bike. I like the family pics in the background too; lots more interesting than the white garage door most of us use for a background, :thumb:

Thanks, Bikemig. I put the break hoods on over the weekend and lowered the rear brake saddle cable so it won't interfere with the rack stays.

Yeah, the family pics. A bit embarrasing.

I thought the pics were a very cool background to the bike. I love Miyatas. I own a team miyata that I used to race on (maybe my favorite bike of all time) and would love to own a 1000 or a 610 but they're as rare as hen's teeth in my neck of the midwest.

That's quite a lineup of bikes you have there. Where in the midwest are you? I very occasionally see 610s available in the TC area, much less often see 1000s (and they are usually listed at a real premium, much, much higher than the 610s.). I'll keep an eye out for you to facilitate if you're interested.

Thanks, yeah I live 5 or so hours south of you in Des Moines. I've checked out the Minneapolis/St. Paul CL from time to time as it is much more active than the one in DM. I may be traveling that way some this summer so maybe I'll start looking then. Honestly, at this point it's not like I don't have enough bikes, :).

It is with great pleasure that I show you all my at-long-last (it's taken me almost 5 years!) finished vintage touring bike - a 1975 Peugeot PX60.

[IMG]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2891/1...25b4209771.jpg Peugeot PX60 - as of December 28th 2013 by Dawes-man, on Flickr[/IMG]

With my first ever touring holiday starting tomorrow - 300kms over 5 days along the coast on the Inner Sea of Japan from Yamamguchi, via Hiroshima to Okayama - I got the Peugeot out 2 weeks ago in order to ride it every day and give it a thorough going over. The main changes are wider mudguards, a wider range front derailleur, wider and more parallel handlebars and a shorter stem. Also, a few months ago, as a result of reading about such conversions here on C&V, I moved the DT Retrofriction levers to an old pair of Shimano pods on the ends of the bars making for very easy gear-changing. The result of all these changes is a beautifully smooth and comfortable ride.

As well as fitting the Bluemels Lightweight guards I've tapped out the mudguard eyelets on the Simplex dropouts at the rear to 6mm to match the front end eyelets in the Tange forks, as well as tapping the fastening holes in the Blackburn rack - this is in response to losing a Blumels butterfly nut on a 7 hour ride back in the summer. I reckon with the 2 threaded holes and a good spring-washer the bolts are less likely to back out. The bolts are 4mm Allen bolts.

As I'm flying to Yamaguchi from Tokyo with my bike I bought a very nice flight bag, made by Ostrich - their OS-500 model. It retails here for around $150 and is very well made. However, it's only 'just' big enough for this 59cm frame, with the saddle and seat post removed, so probably wouldn't suit anyone with anything bigger. A problem, of course, is what to do with the bag when I get there. The bag already folds into a 44cm X 80cm 'slab' and I have found that it will fold once more over the rear rack. Another alternative would be to send it on to Okayama from Yamaguchi and pick it up when I arrive 5 days later.

Anyway, this is the bag:
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, and around 300kms of such scenery, is the reason I've been dreaming of doing this ride for the last 10 years or so:

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Have a great tour!

Thank you, otg! That's very kind of you.

Wow Dawes-man -
What a stellar ride to embark on that long awaited dream cruise to Okayama! Very elegantly finished, as I would expect of you.
- Except for that orange Google place-marker thingie. What the ?

I have two vintage touring bikes. One is a 1983 Trek 720 that needs some fairly serious work (starting with a paint job). The other is a custom Melton touring bike that I built up with a suntour xc pro triple crank, xc pro front and rear derailleurs, suntour ratcheting downtube shifters, suntour cyclone long reach brakes and brake levers, avocet touring II saddle, campy tipo hubs and mavic ma-2 rims, and mks pedals.
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Thank you, auchencrow! I love how it's turned out. And btw, the chrome forks are Tange and were actually made for Katakura Silk.

"Google place-marker thingie." That's a pretty good description. I wonder if that's where Google got the idea? Anyway, it's a safety device that was available back in the 70s, I think it was, but not very popular so they stopped making them. It swivels out and works amazingly well at getting motor vehicles give you a wide berth. They actually slow down and wait till they can go around you safely rather than just go for it regardless of any vehicles coming the other way. I know it looks very geeky, like a 'dork-disc', but I recommend it very highly as it really does work.

I was talking to a friend about tricycles and how cars give them a wide berth, unlike the way they often 'crowd' 2-wheelers, and my friend reckoned it was because their width gave drivers a better idea of them as vehicles needing space, something the thin image of a bicycle doesn't. I reckon this 'lollipop' works in the same way.

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Dawes-man, I fell in love with that PX60 of yours when I first saw it here in '10 or so. So when I came across this PR60 Gentleman a year ago for € 15 I didn't resist long. I do feel really guilty now for not having gotten in on the road yet.:o

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It really is great to hear from someone who has even seen a PX60, let alone actually has one, non-fixie. I see, though, that you're in The Netherlands (unless there's somewhere else famous for cheese and tulips…) and as that's where I got mine from I'm guessing it might have been an NL only model.

$15? That is a very good deal! Mine cost $260 for just the frame but I regard it as money very well spent and have never spent a single second regretting buying it. It's such a lovely bike to ride.

What year is yours? I suspect it's later than mine as it has a head badge decal while mine has a metal badge. Like mine, though, the decals on yours seem to be in pretty good condition. Maybe they used better quality materials for their decals back then.

Do you have any close up photos of your bike? I'd love to see some more photos...

Thanks for posting!

Here are the other pics I have om my computer that are somewhat in focus. Like I said it needs work (a lot), but it seems to be pretty complete and original. I think it is from 1977, when it appeared in most of the European catalogs as the PR60 Gentleman. There were also a P60, a PA60, a PX60 and even a PY60 at one point.

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Miguel- I just LOVE that Melton!

Perfect meld of "vintage" and "less vintage-y."

I just got a Voyageur SP- my secret plan is to replace the LeTech RD with an XC Comp. I'm hesitating because of the time periods being straddled there- but the XC Pro stuff looks at home on your bike.

Thanks! Yeah I thought about using older derailleurs that were more in keeping with the bike's age (like a sun tour vgt, a huret duopar, or a campy rally) but in the end I went with the derailleur that worked the best and didn't look out of place on the bike. Plus I used down tube shifters and toe clips and straps just in case I go a bit crazy one year and decide to do the Cino Heroica. The Voyager SP is such a beautiful bike; I'm looking forward to seeing some pics when you have it build up.

Is that a Sachs/Huret FD?

Yes. It probably had a Simplex FD originally, but the Delrin clamps on those have all broken by now I think.

Hi non-fixie,

Thanks for the pics. In my excitement I'd missed that yours was a PR60, rather than a PX… so I'm still looking forward to hearing from anyone who has or has seen another PX :( Still, your PR is obviously from the same family of 60s and it's the first anything '60' I've seen anywhere. I wonder what the number was supposed to indicate… the older customer? Nah, that would mean the PX10 was for 10 year olds :)

You've probably seen this scan of the 1977 brochure but it seems there were 3 models in the 60 group that year - the P, the PR and the PX with just the PX described as being made with Reynolds tubing. And as you say, there were other letter models but in 1975 there were just 2 - the PA and the PX. COme to think of it, I only know mine was a '75 from the seller's description.

I hope you will post pictures when you get round to working on your PR. As you say, it looks to be complete. Good luck!

Love this thread! http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...ticons/031.gif