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:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4330/3...cafb0f15_b.jpg

Davidson:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7009/6...62d4c5b5_b.jpg

Colnago:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4088/5...9497e249_b.jpg

DD

Not new but it is orange.
https://i.imgur.com/C2IB4Vq.jpg

The Great Pumpkin would be proud, beautiful orange cycles, good call DD. :love:

Well, since you asked, I guess I'm the week ago....

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4339/...a3629e38_b.jpg

Great! Just found this lovely old orange bike at the dump and I know someone who will love it...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4454/...e5c7ce0b_z.jpg

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:

https://myalbum.com/photo/YcUvhJfh4OzV/1k0.jpg

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:

https://myalbum.com/photo/UagEIPbqveQM/1k0.jpg

Late seventies Giovanni. Belgian-built for Sportshop Slikker in Heerhugowaard:

https://myalbum.com/photo/iJae2XpyvnGi/1k0.jpg

1969 Fongers-built RIH, which I wish wasn't this small:

https://myalbum.com/photo/TX2CG8uGqVY7/1k0.jpg

Early eighties Sprey, from a small LBS in Aalsmeer, who built some of his own frames in the eighties:

https://myalbum.com/photo/Hl4pTqloPsbB/1k0.jpg

Early eighties "Sprinter". Unidentified builder, probably re-done with generic decals at some point in time. One of my lightest bikes at exactly 10kg:

https://myalbum.com/photo/rTSk5Ta1G7h3/1k0.jpg

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:

https://myalbum.com/photo/PIPPSj4fIpCh/1k0.jpg

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....

All of these are gone but not forgotten:
http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/y...tsideFINAL.jpg
http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/y...pskyrv91mp.jpg
http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps24074208.jpg
http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps9fb6607f.jpg

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. :o

Anyway, here's Daan Spreij, with a bike he sold some thirty-five years ago:

https://myalbum.com/photo/abmtAxHFIeqF/1k0.jpg

Well now I'm jealous, I don't have an orange bike!

So here's an orange saddle:

Orange Vintage Mountain Bike by pond

[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4449/...71ca593c_c.jpg1504395_946179042059215_2999536088717368937_o by , on Flickr[/IMG]

Orange not Vintage Mountain bike by the same pond

[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4457/...ba0b3758_c.jpg19128_992725264071259_8075692226488908628_n by , on Flickr[/IMG]

Just for fun, orange beard (which has gotten more white since then)

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4504/...11cdcba9_z.jpg11019574_983140788363040_8240485593954818758_n by , on Flickr

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps624946fc.jpg

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/a...psyfnxmvpa.jpg

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...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7203/2...8dc34c_c_d.jpg


Steve in Peoria-ish

Does Chestnut count? It's kind of burnt orange.http://haywirelacrosse.com/ron/74_Pa...728_132032.jpghttp://haywirelacrosse.com/ron/74_Pa...723_002716.jpg

Well, these old color-blind eyes are not a good judge, but I never object to seeing a beautiful early Paramount.

While not orange, and being from 64, seems the original paint really wants to be orange:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4465/...698ee518_b.jpgUntitled by David Ashe, on Flickr

Yay sun fading!

Ok, I'll play.

1976 Centurion Semi Pro:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5611/...469552f2_c.jpg

1975? Carabela Profesional:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4331/...e7a927fb_c.jpg

1977 le tour II schwinn

OMG - that's perfect for October and this thread :)

DD

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.

[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4443/...91637da6_c.jpgUntitled by , on Flickr[/IMG]

I don't care what color it is - that's beautiful :love:

@non-fixie: I think you've cornered the orange bike market! Never seen a collection here with so much orange as yours :)

DD