Flaunt your bike with oversized steel tubing
 

As there seems to be some interest in this - why not a dedicated thread!?

This thread wellcomes any bike with a frame made out of oversized steel tubing. MAX, Minimax, Excel, EL OS, Oria or any other make or model tubing in larger than classic dimensions.

Merckx Corsa Extra in MAX

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Masi 3Volumetrica/Milano 314 in Excel tubing

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Merckx MX Leader in MXL (early one - no seat stay caps)

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Dang, If I had one with OS tubing, it would be Masi's 3V Volumetrica.....
But so far, no luck finding that bike in the right size, color, condition.......and price....:rolleyes:

Once again I can't post photos from the mobile site. I wanted to post my 92 Paramount PDG 7.

It's frustrating when a site pretends everything functions correctly. Pretending is easy and fun!

Are you using the mobile option?

1995 Carrera - Columbus EL with "Carrera" on the sticker, so I think it is a variant of OS. different tube diameters than my EL Ciöcc. Ovalized at the bottom bracket. It's on my list of "take to my grave" bikes.

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Yes. This time I used 'manage attachments'. Nothing. Last time I clicked on the insert picture icon. Same.

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Posted from the laptop

MXL with a colour code Merckx called "TAL". I hated it when I got it and planned a repaint. But it is in perfect shape and I have sort of got used to it by now - a lot of years later. Will probably get the 10V Record treatment.

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Paging @KonAaron Snake.

My 1999 Torelli Nitro Express EL OS

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My Stelvio with oversize Dedacciai Dolmen steel.

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Pinarello Stelvio by cb400bill, on Flickr

Maybe the BS "wall" is getting in the way? ;)

I'll play, here's my PDG Series with it's OS Tange Prestige tubing.


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Normal size, oversize and undersize steel tubing - all on the same bike.

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This 1939 James Arrow Ace Convertible Touring Tandem is currently in for some updates, I'll post newer pics when I get it back. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...9cc489f379.jpg

Mine of MXL and my wife's of Max.

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MAX Bianchi Caurus Proto. Dirty but in OK condition.

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I have a Stelvio
can't find any info on it

Schwinn called this "1-1/8" tubing". Does that count? :innocent:
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Just goes to show there's no accounting for (my) taste! I like both those paint jobs a lot! If that Paramount is 60cm c to c or larger and you want to sell the frameset send me a pm.
Brent

I sold this to a friend about a year ago to make room for a dedicated touring bike. It was a great bike
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The latest configuration for my Merckx by NBend, on Flickr

I do have a lot of steel bikes (about 30 and of which at least 17-18 are ready to use) and/but If someone twisted my arm really hard and I had to choose only one bike to use a Merckx MX Leader would be my choice. There are others that are more important to me and/or are better looking - but this one would be my choice if I had to loose the rest.

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Today it has 10V down tube shifters but this pic with 10v bar end is a bit better.