Okay, all the mighty mites have always been able to find bikes in stock sizes up to 63cm. Every time someone finds a vintage Colnago, Olmo, Pinarello, Klein, and even some special Cannondale, Centurion, Raleigh bikes don't we always kind of feel left out? Most of the epic great bikes weren't really ever built in sizes except for the mitey mites.
So here is a thread for the rest of us,
please limit discussion to frames/bikes 64cm and up. If it was a typical stock size, 63cm or smaller, there are plenty of threads for you elsewhere to show off your small bikes.
Olmo supposedly made vintage frame/forks available in up to 66cm
Klein supposedly made frame/fork sets in 68cm-72cm
Cannondale had the 66cm CAAD5 special order frame/fork & the 27"(68cm) ST touring bikes
What are you riding in BIG sized bikes, and what do you see out there that pops up? Also a great thread to discuss longer cranks bigger than 175mm clown car size. There were vintage cranks from Campy and others in at least up to 182.5mm. There are modern 185mm-215mm cranks available that match nicely with BIG bikes.
da Vinci Designs a famous tandem builder manufacturers their own double/triple cranks up to 200mm that look very classic and would look great on a vintage bike:
http://www.davincitandems.com/components/
Zinn offers square taper and integrated cranks in a variety of models and styles (seven as of this post). Most are available in lengths up to 215mm/220mm.
http://zinncycles.com/Zinn/index.php/custom-cranks
If you're trying to pull off a classic & vintage Klein, Kestrel, or Cannondale 80s/90s rocket bike there aren't a lot of high zoot cranks that were available in proper lengths but Lightning will build you a carbon crank to 190mm (and there have been rumors of even 200mm cranks) in a variety of BCDs.
http://www.lightningbikes.com/cranks/
Kooka, Cook Brothers, Grafton, and gobs of other CNC cranks were available up to 181mm in a variety of anodized crazy 80s colors:
http://www.bikepro.com/products/cran...nk_table.shtml
High Sierra makes long cranks in classic styles and carbon integrated, both in a variety of spiders and BCDs:
http://www.hscycle.com/Pages/customcrankset.html
Throughout the 90s and 2000s a lot of people sourced from CustomCranks.de, but they are no longer manufacturing, but can probably be found on some bigger bikes. Great data points on historical racers crank lengths:
http://www.customcranks.de/en/cranklength.html
IRD crankset look passable enough on classic and vintage bikes if you polish out the IRD graphics, and use with say Spécialités TA rings. Probably the most affordable longer cranks out there (180mm, 200mm, 220mm lengths).
http://www.interlocracing.com/crank-...ple-crank-arms
Hard to find but Campagnolo has done 180mm cranks commonly, and even 182.5mm. For many people looking to build up a C&V bike the Stronglight 182.5mm crankset was seen as the longest available. Its a beautiful classic crankset, but Spécialités TA did cranks up to 185mm and with the options listed above BIG bikes shouldn't have to be ridding with tiny little clown cranks. Hope this helps.