Classic & vintage road icons....?
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Cannondale right, not a Vincent?
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In celebration of Canada Day, here's my list of iconic Canadian bicycles:
Massey-Harris Silver Ribbon Model 7 "Special" Racer: Specifically the 1899 bicycle borrowed by Major Taylor to win the 1 Mile event at that year's World Championships in Montreal.
CCM Flyer: The dominant inter-war racing bicycle.
CCM Flyer: Specifically, Torchy Peden's gold plated bicycle.
CCM Flyte; The only Canadian bicycle design to be awarded a patent (1936).
CCM Mustang: The dominant hi-riser bicycle of the late 1960s.
CCM Mustang Marauder: The early 1970s wedge frame hi-riser that outsold the Raleigh Chopper.
Sekine SHC: The late boom era model that wrestled the title of best selling bicycle away from the Peugeot UO8.
Mariposa: Specifcally the bicycles owned by and depicted in the artwork of Greg Curnoe.
Marinoni Pista: Specifically the 1978 bicycle used by Jocelyn Lovell to win 3 gold medals at that year's Commonwealth Games and win silver at that year's World Championships. It was brought out of retirement in 2012 and ridden by Marinoni himself to set the World Hour Record in the 75-79 age category.
Lovell Kilometre Bicycle: Specifically the 1983 bicycle with the two speed, dual drivetrain.
Rocky Mountain Blizzard: The 1983 Paul Brodie design that initiated the trend toward ATBs with sloping top tubes.
Levi's-Raleigh USA pro team bicycles: Specifically the 1984 frames, including the Connie Carpenter's Olympic winning bicycle, which were built by Marinoni.
Cervélo Barrachi: 1994 monocoque, carbon fibre, time trial design.
Massey-Harris Silver Ribbon Model 7 "Special" Racer: Specifically the 1899 bicycle borrowed by Major Taylor to win the 1 Mile event at that year's World Championships in Montreal.
CCM Flyer: The dominant inter-war racing bicycle.
CCM Flyer: Specifically, Torchy Peden's gold plated bicycle.
CCM Flyte; The only Canadian bicycle design to be awarded a patent (1936).
CCM Mustang: The dominant hi-riser bicycle of the late 1960s.
CCM Mustang Marauder: The early 1970s wedge frame hi-riser that outsold the Raleigh Chopper.
Sekine SHC: The late boom era model that wrestled the title of best selling bicycle away from the Peugeot UO8.
Mariposa: Specifcally the bicycles owned by and depicted in the artwork of Greg Curnoe.
Marinoni Pista: Specifically the 1978 bicycle used by Jocelyn Lovell to win 3 gold medals at that year's Commonwealth Games and win silver at that year's World Championships. It was brought out of retirement in 2012 and ridden by Marinoni himself to set the World Hour Record in the 75-79 age category.
Lovell Kilometre Bicycle: Specifically the 1983 bicycle with the two speed, dual drivetrain.
Rocky Mountain Blizzard: The 1983 Paul Brodie design that initiated the trend toward ATBs with sloping top tubes.
Levi's-Raleigh USA pro team bicycles: Specifically the 1984 frames, including the Connie Carpenter's Olympic winning bicycle, which were built by Marinoni.
Cervélo Barrachi: 1994 monocoque, carbon fibre, time trial design.
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Red Specialized Allez from "American Flyers" Still haven't owned one, closest I've come is a Sirrus and 3Rensho Athlete.
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1950 Claud Butler "Sport Anglais". decided to go with a partial french theme including a simplex seatpost. had to cut down the FD cage to clear the chain stay for my old man chainring gearing. the headset is a mashup of parts... sealed bearing lower and caged bearing upper as a placeholder while i await finding the right headset. it was really interesting learning how to adjust the simplex RD. the saddle is just a sanded down B17 and Rudy installed some oversized rivets for me.
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Ha! That was my experience exactly. Sadly they were kind of iconic for the era and area. Nothing says "made for suburbia" more than a 38 lb bike w/ dinner plate size chain ring guard, steel rims and not even a single bottle cage mount point.
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You must not have grown up in the sixties or seventies ....either that or you grew up in El Centro or Palmdale. (I lived in both of those places, but as a wee lad before I could even ride a bicycle)
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"Two-panel" Trek 750/757 from 1982/83. Something unmistakable about that second panel on the downtube.
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Icon: "widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere"
https://www.bikemag.com/blog/news-a-...changed-it-all
https://www.bikemag.com/blog/news-a-...changed-it-all
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at first glance, looks the part, not sure at all about the Record cranks even with a 151 BCD, would place them years ahead of introduction which is in general asserted to 1958.
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Anybody mentioned this?
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Icon: "widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere"
https://www.bikemag.com/blog/news-a-...changed-it-all
https://www.bikemag.com/blog/news-a-...changed-it-all
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Maybe so but they did inspire many of us young uns to venture further afield boosted by the perceived cool factor.
Horsepower, muscle cars and automobile centric culture didn't send us in the TDF direction but did set us up for hot rod inspired Sting rays and that got more of us more on the road.
I didn't get a Schwinn but did get a Sears imposter that had problems that I had to learn to wrangle on my own.
Both BB and rear hub gacked up and had me scrambling to figure them out on my own, got it sorted and was never dead in the water from then on.
Horsepower, muscle cars and automobile centric culture didn't send us in the TDF direction but did set us up for hot rod inspired Sting rays and that got more of us more on the road.
I didn't get a Schwinn but did get a Sears imposter that had problems that I had to learn to wrangle on my own.
Both BB and rear hub gacked up and had me scrambling to figure them out on my own, got it sorted and was never dead in the water from then on.
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I was around for what I would call the “ proto-bmx” era.
Sting Rays- ditch the kickstand- tractor front tire and Westwind rear.
the bike I keyed off was a girls bike with welded in “top tube” about half way up and additional brace between the factory down tubes as schwinn had done decades before on some girls “middleweight” bikes, also had plate straps welded between the seat and chain stays.
I went only for the added horizontal tube.
the shop thought I was crazy for buying a used Slick Chick in pink! Took it apart that evening, next day, $5 to the grave stone marker place to get the frame sand blasted, then found, mitered a tube, scrap from a steel fab shop, went to Cycle Products West on Pico for them to weld it in.
opaque yellow, satin Black fork, cut the “hoop” of the rear strut - moved them to the inside of the new banana seat… pink would not do!
fender washers and nylock nuts to snap-on secure. The change to the afore mentioned tires, the girls bike had 20 x 1 3/4” rims- slightly bigger than the boys model at the back.
ditch the stand, guard, fenders.
others copied if they had a sister with a donor bike.
sold that bike at a $15 profit over investment.
after I sold it the local Schwinn shop asked if I had it still, they were authorized to offer even more by Schwinn to send it back to Chicago to learn about what was happening out on the west coast.
Schwinn was clueless as to the coming BMX wave that did not even have a name yet.
Sting Rays- ditch the kickstand- tractor front tire and Westwind rear.
the bike I keyed off was a girls bike with welded in “top tube” about half way up and additional brace between the factory down tubes as schwinn had done decades before on some girls “middleweight” bikes, also had plate straps welded between the seat and chain stays.
I went only for the added horizontal tube.
the shop thought I was crazy for buying a used Slick Chick in pink! Took it apart that evening, next day, $5 to the grave stone marker place to get the frame sand blasted, then found, mitered a tube, scrap from a steel fab shop, went to Cycle Products West on Pico for them to weld it in.
opaque yellow, satin Black fork, cut the “hoop” of the rear strut - moved them to the inside of the new banana seat… pink would not do!
fender washers and nylock nuts to snap-on secure. The change to the afore mentioned tires, the girls bike had 20 x 1 3/4” rims- slightly bigger than the boys model at the back.
ditch the stand, guard, fenders.
others copied if they had a sister with a donor bike.
sold that bike at a $15 profit over investment.
after I sold it the local Schwinn shop asked if I had it still, they were authorized to offer even more by Schwinn to send it back to Chicago to learn about what was happening out on the west coast.
Schwinn was clueless as to the coming BMX wave that did not even have a name yet.
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Has to be the fauto coppi legano since the genius coppi bikes were raced by the Polti Team with several sucesses under their belt
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Cinelli ? how about one with 10 miles on it from new
has "con dente" pedals and tied & soldered wheels built for me by Spence Wolf
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has "con dente" pedals and tied & soldered wheels built for me by Spence Wolf
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