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10 Years Ago: what were you doing, C&V bike-wise?

Old 05-31-21, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by davester
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3. I didn't know that splash tape was really lame.
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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Originally Posted by non-fixie
Never mind the tape, but what's the deal with the green hoods?
1. I'm colorblind.

2. That's all I could find at the time that would fit.

3. There are much nicer gum hoods on it now.
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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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Old 06-01-21, 10:26 AM
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I just started getting back into biking after about a 20 year hiatus.
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Old 06-02-21, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by davester
1. I'm colorblind.

2. That's all I could find at the time that would fit.

3. There are much nicer gum hoods on it now.
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.

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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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Old 06-04-21, 08:14 AM
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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.
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Originally Posted by gaucho777
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:

I have a Park Pre Hammer Mountain bike sitting in my garage. Ten years ago was doing mountain repeats, intervals, big chain days, high speed spinning and riding 240 to 300 miles a week on my 1400 Trek with all 105's. Doing great until August when I crashed, broke both hands, dislocated fingers, fractured neck. Bent the frame on the 1400 so I tried to ride again riding a 1988 Club Fuji that I put all the 105 bits on it. Fast bike but never could do any real riding. My hands still hurt, hard to stay in the drops. Don't really ride any more but thinking about going out on the Park Pre to see what I can do. Oh, gained 30 pounds so there's that. I really do miss it. At 76 years old maybe time to go recumbent. Cheers.
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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.
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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.
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Old 06-04-21, 08:44 PM
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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.
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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.

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Originally Posted by retrofit
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.

H**Y CRAP!!!

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.
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Originally Posted by merziac
H**Y CRAP!!!

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?

No actual build thread; all pic are gone from the "reveal" thread, but here is how it looked when I was riding it:

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Originally Posted by retrofit
No actual build thread; all pic are gone from the "reveal" thread, but here is how it looked when I was riding it:

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...
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Originally Posted by merziac
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...
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.
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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.
Yep, plenty of parts and pieces in play, the time and even more $$$ not so much. My frame has several dings that really need to be mitigated, this being what it is, I may have to knuckle under and just get it together to motivate me to figure out the the rest, just like too many others in the queue, 74 Moto TC, early 60's Cinelli SC, beautiful damaged 73 Raleigh Pro, nice a bit worn and small 78 Raleigh Pro, tarnished and a bit small 70's chrome Paramount, a 4th Merz road and many more.

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.
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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.


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