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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 01-04-11, 04:13 PM
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Norskagent: I've said it before in C&V, but I can't get enough of that Raleigh track bike.
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Old 01-04-11, 04:27 PM
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You were not looking closely. Of course I would find it tough riding without tires, but I would have to pedal really fast to go anywhere without a chain.
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Old 01-04-11, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by caloso
Norskagent: I've said it before in C&V, but I can't get enough of that Raleigh track bike.
thanks!
here's a couple of detail pics



(I removed the brake after this pic was taken, the bike looked "muzzled"))
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Originally Posted by pastorbobnlnh
I think you are fooled by the slight turn of the wheel towards the right. Put a straight edge to this one. I've had this hot baby up to 45mph and it was as steady as a caddie floating down the highway at 100 mph.

Why have the brake hoods so high? I would be nervous doing 45 in the drops and not able to reach the brakes easily.
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This thread has again come to life with a few pages of sheer steel beauty. Keep 'em coming...
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Originally Posted by norskagent
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That's the color scheme I'm looking for on an 80s road Raleigh.
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I'd carry a pic of this in my wallet if it was mine....well maybe even if it wasn't
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Old 01-04-11, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by rufvelo
That's the color scheme I'm looking for on an 80s road Raleigh.
What size frame do you need?
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Originally Posted by rufvelo
This thread has again come to life with a few pages of sheer steel beauty. Keep 'em coming...
- A few more. . .

1983 Nishiki International




1972 Raleigh Super Course







1984 Trek 660

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Originally Posted by StanSeven
Why have the brake hoods so high? I would be nervous doing 45 in the drops and not able to reach the brakes easily.
Keeps me on the correct side of the handlebars. Who needs brakes? Besides that, they are nearly 50 year old Weinmann side pulls. 'Nough said?
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Originally Posted by MikesChevelle
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I've always liked these. I'm always on the lookout for one.
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Old 01-04-11, 10:34 PM
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I have a 3rd steel framed bike that can go in here, but I don't think it's worthy of being put in here with my pista and my 930.
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Originally Posted by Dannihilator
I have a 3rd steel framed bike that can go in here, but I don't think it's worthy of being put in here with my pista and my 930.
Why not?
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It's not a road or track bike.

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Originally Posted by frpax
I've always liked these. I'm always on the lookout for one.
you would die if I told what I paid for it........
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Originally Posted by MikesChevelle
you would die if I told what I paid for it........
Probably better not tell me then...

Although, I got a screamer of a deal on the Raleigh that I recently posted... and I do mean "SCREAMER".
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Originally Posted by Dannihilator
It's not a road or track bike.

I see what you mean. Still, it is steel, right?
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Originally Posted by frpax
What size frame do you need?
58 - 61cm will work
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Originally Posted by frpax
I see what you mean. Still, it is steel, right?
That it is.
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Originally Posted by Dannihilator
That it is.
Then it belongs.

What is it, exactly?
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Originally Posted by frpax
Then it belongs.

What is it, exactly?
DMR Transition 26.
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Originally Posted by Dannihilator
DMR Transition 26.
OK, I deserved that...

Let me rephrase. What kind of bike is that? For what cycling discipline?
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Originally Posted by frpax
OK, I deserved that...

Let me rephrase. What kind of bike is that? For what cycling discipline?
DJ/Street MTB. Freeride.
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Originally Posted by frpax
Probably better not tell me then...

Although, I got a screamer of a deal on the Raleigh that I recently posted... and I do mean "SCREAMER".
ill tell if you tell
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