10 Years Ago: what were you doing, C&V bike-wise?
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Never mind the tape, but what's the deal with the green hoods?
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Pretty much the same thing as now - working on old 3-speeds of various sorts and the occasional single speed balloon tire bike. My shop and tools are a little nicer and more complete now though. And my routine is basically the same - find an old bike, fix it, ride it.
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I was riding a 90s rigid GT MTB turned hybrid since most every ride at that time was with my oldest who was 4 at the time. Didnt need to ride fast or anything more than about 5 miles in total.
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I just started getting back into biking after about a 20 year hiatus.
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The reason I asked was that they look hand-painted in your picture, and I was hoping your answer would have something like "flower power" in it ...
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It was so long ago I had to go to Photobucket (yes, they still have the pictures) to see what I was riding.
My first big tired road bike. A 1985 Centurion Elite GT that I got on here. Probably the one bike I should never have sold.
And I bought this Trek 560 in May 2011 and was my go fast bike for several years.
My first big tired road bike. A 1985 Centurion Elite GT that I got on here. Probably the one bike I should never have sold.
And I bought this Trek 560 in May 2011 and was my go fast bike for several years.
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I was just starting to ride again after a long hiatus away from cycling. I joined this forum in 2009 while in the process of trying to fix up my LOOK--a bike I've owned since I was 13. By 2011, I was ready for another project, so I moved on to my other teenage race bike, a Parkpre. Glad I never got rid of those bikes. I slowly cobbled together a DA 7400 group and finished restoring the Parkpre in 2011:
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10 years ago I was just riding my bike... oblivious to any concept that my old steel bike with friction DT shifters was anything other than a well used road bike.
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I was joyfully riding (Century Ride summer) my only bike, the ‘85 Trek 460. Didn’t do much for wrenching on it but neither was I intimidated to doing such.
Now, I have a fleet of bikes from the restored 1898 Glenwood path racer to a “lowly” 87 Miyata 712 for a total of 10 bikes and have run a hobby bike business in my shop out back restoring, refurbishing and building classic racers and mountain bikes. It’s been a fun 10 years. Oh, and I avidly ride the fog line and trails as well.
Now, I have a fleet of bikes from the restored 1898 Glenwood path racer to a “lowly” 87 Miyata 712 for a total of 10 bikes and have run a hobby bike business in my shop out back restoring, refurbishing and building classic racers and mountain bikes. It’s been a fun 10 years. Oh, and I avidly ride the fog line and trails as well.
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I was just starting to ride again after a long hiatus away from cycling. I joined this forum in 2009 while in the process of trying to fix up my LOOK--a bike I've owned since I was 13. By 2011, I was ready for another project, so I moved on to my other teenage race bike, a Parkpre. Glad I never got rid of those bikes. I slowly cobbled together a DA 7400 group and finished restoring the Parkpre in 2011:
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2011 was right around when my bike flipping got out of hand. I did eventually stop, and I haven't bought or sold any bikes in years.
That century ride with @nlerner and @rhm provides me with some nice memories.
That century ride with @nlerner and @rhm provides me with some nice memories.
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2011... I'd been diagnosed in 2010 with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and sold my very nice Y2k-ish Cannondale road bike, an Ultegra-level Saeco team model in Ronald Macdonald scheme. (It would now qualify me for the 7-8-9 speed brifter bike forum!) I didn't know what I had - in either sense. I never knew how good it was, since I'd bought it used around 2008. I bought it for $400 and sold it for the same - what I now know was a song. As my life with my heart bug has evolved, I've wished I'd had it back a lot.
It was a few years after that I got my Dad's old Paramount from him and found Bike Forums when looking for help rebuilding it. At the time my hobbies were home brewing, motorcycles, and a service organization called Active 20-30.
I still had a MTB but didn't ride it much, being that I lived in an apartment and had a dog, so I prioritized afternoon walkies.
Pretty soon (Dec 2011) I'd meet my wife.
It was a few years after that I got my Dad's old Paramount from him and found Bike Forums when looking for help rebuilding it. At the time my hobbies were home brewing, motorcycles, and a service organization called Active 20-30.
I still had a MTB but didn't ride it much, being that I lived in an apartment and had a dog, so I prioritized afternoon walkies.
Pretty soon (Dec 2011) I'd meet my wife.
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In 2011 I was still walking with a cane, thanks to being t-boned by an SUV in 2001. Busted up six vertebrae in my neck and back. Figured I'd never ride again so I sold my 1976 Motobecane, classic merino wool kit, Detto Pietros that were still in great shape, tools and all.
Took more than a decade to recover enough to try riding a bike again. Started on a comfort hybrid in 2015. Rode that for a year, slowly getting back into shape. Got an early 1990s Univega MTB-lite, what would now be called a hybrid. Rode that for a year and in summer 2017 got my first road bike in more than 30 years, a 1989 Centurion Ironman. I later added a couple of carbon fiber road bikes but the Ironman may still be my favorite.
Back is mostly okay now, with some injury-induced scoliosis (same thing that plagued Egan Bernal way too young). But the neck was permanently screwed up. With regular physical therapy, mostly at home, I can handle a drop bar bike, but I'll never be able to use aero bars for a TT/tri-bike for longer than a minute or two at a time. The neck just doesn't work that way anymore.
Took more than a decade to recover enough to try riding a bike again. Started on a comfort hybrid in 2015. Rode that for a year, slowly getting back into shape. Got an early 1990s Univega MTB-lite, what would now be called a hybrid. Rode that for a year and in summer 2017 got my first road bike in more than 30 years, a 1989 Centurion Ironman. I later added a couple of carbon fiber road bikes but the Ironman may still be my favorite.
Back is mostly okay now, with some injury-induced scoliosis (same thing that plagued Egan Bernal way too young). But the neck was permanently screwed up. With regular physical therapy, mostly at home, I can handle a drop bar bike, but I'll never be able to use aero bars for a TT/tri-bike for longer than a minute or two at a time. The neck just doesn't work that way anymore.
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In 2011, I had gotten this Rivendell A. Homer Hilsen frame after selling many C&V bikes that were duplicate builds. I built it and had it about 6 months at this point.
This was last Sunday
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In 2011 I finally parted ways with this 1980 Bianchi SuperCorsa/Specialissima framseset. It was too big for me (59cm top tube), but dang what a smooth ride. Was built up with vintage Campy Super Record with O.M.A.S. hubs.
Selling the Bianchi left me with one vintage bike -- my resto-mod 1980 Gios Super Record equipped with Campy Chorus/Record 10-speed. Still riding this frameset, built up in 2019 with vintage Campy Super Record.
Selling the Bianchi left me with one vintage bike -- my resto-mod 1980 Gios Super Record equipped with Campy Chorus/Record 10-speed. Still riding this frameset, built up in 2019 with vintage Campy Super Record.
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Wish mine was even half that nice, glad I have it and that it is in as good of shape as it is and my size so....
Build thread, more pics?
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Ten years ago I made the biggest mistake of my cycling like and sold my Rossin Performance EL/OS. It was an NOS frame and I built it up with Campy Centaur 10sp. It had a wild paint job that changed color with the angle. Colorado Cyclist built the wheelset and they were really nice. I had it for less than a year and sold it when I bought a new house to fund new furniture.
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Ten years ago, I was fresh out of college in Spokane, WA (I know, I'm a young one). I was walking home from my overnight shift every weekend because the buses didn't run before 8am on Sundays. It was about an hour walk to my apartment after working my second 6pm to 6am shift in a row. My parents found out and they got me my first road bike: a red Panasonic Sport 500 (late birthday gift? early Christmas?). I grew up on gravel roads and had only borrowed road bikes to bike around my tiny campus during college. I was still skeptical about "city riding" (Spokane seems laughably small now) and road bikes in general, but it was a quick learning experience as I replaced the city bars with drop bars and swapped almost every component on it. I learned all the basics of building a bike on that thing. At the time, I was poor enough that all bikes were vintage bikes. I couldn't be bothered with anything new enough to have a cassette hub or indexed shifters. These were just "bikes" to me; no vintage, no classic.
The Panasonic was eventually stolen, but Spokane is small enough that a Craigslist search every couple weeks for Panasonic bikes would yield 0-2 results. A year later, I see my bike being sold for a paltry sum (even for a low-end bike as this) and the seller is in a hurry. I'm at work, so I have them meet me outside for a "purchase" on my lunch break. A big burly regular customer of mine accompanied me, and when they showed up I was able to confirm it as mine and told them to scoot before Crime Check showed up (Crime Check on the phone told me they were too busy to show up for something like this, but who needs to know that). By this point though I had moved on to a Miyata frame with splined and butted tubing. It was still a thrill to recover my first bike though, and I sold it to a friend for about the same price as the Craigslist ad. I hope he still has it.
The Panasonic was eventually stolen, but Spokane is small enough that a Craigslist search every couple weeks for Panasonic bikes would yield 0-2 results. A year later, I see my bike being sold for a paltry sum (even for a low-end bike as this) and the seller is in a hurry. I'm at work, so I have them meet me outside for a "purchase" on my lunch break. A big burly regular customer of mine accompanied me, and when they showed up I was able to confirm it as mine and told them to scoot before Crime Check showed up (Crime Check on the phone told me they were too busy to show up for something like this, but who needs to know that). By this point though I had moved on to a Miyata frame with splined and butted tubing. It was still a thrill to recover my first bike though, and I sold it to a friend for about the same price as the Craigslist ad. I hope he still has it.
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Well that's a fantastic pic, so awesome,Tx!
I have some good stuff for mine but unless I do full on paint, it won't be anywhere near as nice as that. Gold Fir rims, all original brakes, drivetrain with nice condition SR deraileurs, panto stem, SP, aftermarket big chainring, original? celeste Turbo saddle, black leather Alamarc style bar tape and 3t bars and I bought a gold lightweight KMC chain but came into a real deal NOS Regina so we'll see. No good pics of mine so...
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WOW!
Well that's a fantastic pic, so awesome,Tx!
I have some good stuff for mine but unless I do full on paint, it won't be anywhere near as nice as that. Gold Fir rims, all original brakes, drivetrain with nice condition SR deraileurs, panto stem, SP, aftermarket big chainring, original? celeste Turbo saddle, black leather Alamarc style bar tape and 3t bars and I bought a gold lightweight KMC chain but came into a real deal NOS Regina so we'll see. No good pics of mine so...
Well that's a fantastic pic, so awesome,Tx!
I have some good stuff for mine but unless I do full on paint, it won't be anywhere near as nice as that. Gold Fir rims, all original brakes, drivetrain with nice condition SR deraileurs, panto stem, SP, aftermarket big chainring, original? celeste Turbo saddle, black leather Alamarc style bar tape and 3t bars and I bought a gold lightweight KMC chain but came into a real deal NOS Regina so we'll see. No good pics of mine so...
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Thanks! Sounds like you have a great build going. When I originally picked up the Bianchi it had a mish-mash of parts on it and the paint was somewhat dull/oxidized. I spent some time polishing the frame using Turtle Wax Scratch and Swirl Remover and it did wonders. Will wait for your build thread.
Not holding my breath.
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Here's the pic I was going off that was 8-9 years old at the time and was told it had bounced around and was not in this shape anymore. Price was ok and I had a forum member check it out, couldn't see passing it up so here we are.
Here's the pic I was going off that was 8-9 years old at the time and was told it had bounced around and was not in this shape anymore. Price was ok and I had a forum member check it out, couldn't see passing it up so here we are.
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10 years ago, after riding a century on my Miyata 310 that I had owned for 27 years, I decided it was time for a new bike. I spent a lot of time reading reviews and studying spec charts, but finally I bought a Jamis Quest. "Endurance" bikes were the buzz word at the time, and the Quest fit the description pretty well. The fit was different enough from the Miyata that I only rode the Quest for a while in order to get used to it. After a few weeks, I rode the Miyata again and immediately wondered how I had been able to put up with it for so long. I had owned the Miyata since it was new, and I wasn't 23 any more, so something had to change. Using the Quest measurements as the basis, I tried to set up the Miyata to fit the same way. Mainly, it was going from 38 cm bars to 42 cm, and a taller stem. Both bikes also wear B17 saddles now. The transformation worked. My rides are only limited by time and endurance, not comfort. Now whenever I buy another bike, I set it up the same way. In a way, buying the new bike opened the door for me to enjoy old bikes even more.
1984 Miyata in current configuration
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