What is the best looking bike outthere
08-14-09, 01:10 AM
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I'm not familiar with them, but that Vanilla bike rocks. I want one, but I'm pretty sure if I have to ask what one costs, I can't afford it.
08-14-09, 01:13 AM
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^Not to mention the 5 year waiting list! Still, they are sweet looking. I really like the dropouts and the way the V is incorporated into them.
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08-14-09, 01:38 AM
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Of what's been posted so far, there's not much that really appeals to me. The Herse is sure beautiful but in a rugged, utilitarian way. Color fades, sloping top tubes, low spoke count wheels, cranks that look like they're swollen from a beesting... these things just don't do anything for me.
More to my taste, and I'm just pulling this out of the hat since a link to it was posted yesterday, I have to mention the 1962 Raleigh Gran Sport:
more pictures in the Rydjor Bike Collection.
More to my taste, and I'm just pulling this out of the hat since a link to it was posted yesterday, I have to mention the 1962 Raleigh Gran Sport:
more pictures in the Rydjor Bike Collection.
08-14-09, 09:37 AM
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I like so many beautiful bikes for so many different reasons but one bike that REALLY works for me is Peter Weigle's personal road race bike that he built, I believe, when he was at Witcomb. It is just so perfectly balanced in every detail. It was in his booth at the HandBuilt show in Portland and although there was a sea of current, amazing bikes I kept going back to stare at this 35+ year old bike. During one day dreaming session Dario Pegoretti walked over from his (Gita's) booth with an admirer and showed him the same Weigle bike. Dario then exclaimed to his acolyte , "Now, this is a PERFECT bicycle!". Nice to know I have good taste!
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08-14-09, 02:28 PM
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It's just hard to tell the difference between Pegoretty, Indie Fab, Serotta, if you don't look at the decals.
1.Pegoretti
2. IF
At least Colnago master have pinched tubes, and chrome lugs.
1.Pegoretti
2. IF
At least Colnago master have pinched tubes, and chrome lugs.
08-14-09, 02:35 PM
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We have one of those Trek Y bikes on our local CL at the moment
https://akroncanton.craigslist.org/bik/1322577589.html
https://akroncanton.craigslist.org/bik/1322577589.html
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08-14-09, 02:45 PM
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When 2many returns from holiday, I'll see if he will post detailed shots of the lugs and fork.
It's not like the TIG welded Peg's, except in amazing ride characteristics. There is a reason Pro's wanted Dario building for them, no matter what decal went on the frame.
08-14-09, 02:53 PM
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I've looked at Pegoretti and Colnago X-light at LBS, and I think Colnago is better. Pegoretti had some giberish painted on it and it looks like it is not done by hand. Does Dario P. hand paints frames himself, like in the pictures, or do they use some stencils.
08-14-09, 03:02 PM
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I like that Raleigh, but I really lust for the next bike in the Rydjor collection, the green 1964 Bianchi Specialissima. This may be the nostalgia factor, because my first road bike was a bottom-of-the-line 1962 Bianchi Corsa. After we moved to Huntington Beach, the only bike shop owner who seemed to like my bargain basement special took me into the back of his shop to show me his personal Specialissimas.
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08-14-09, 03:06 PM
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Columbines / Bianchis
OH MY! such beautiful bikes those Columbines are absolutely the most beautiful bikes I have ever seen. I adore a bike with fancy lugwork. it is simply too bad such craftsmanship have been cast aside in favor of just 'cranking them out and making money'
however I must say that to me, my humble little stable of Bianchis are the most beautiful bikes on the road. and my Rigi gets an honorable mention as she is just so unique
however I must say that to me, my humble little stable of Bianchis are the most beautiful bikes on the road. and my Rigi gets an honorable mention as she is just so unique
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08-14-09, 03:37 PM
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Hmm. In Heaven, I will have a copy of the Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles, among other wishing books, and every day, i will be able to open it, select one, *poof* it will appear, and I'll go off on my umpteenth heavenly cyclotour.
Edit #2: and I'll have magic goggles that convert the image of the sloping top tube monstrosities that other people are enjoying into elegant french cyclotouring bikes, though they will still be distinguishable in that they will appear to me to have a dodecahedronal front wheel.
Edit #2: and I'll have magic goggles that convert the image of the sloping top tube monstrosities that other people are enjoying into elegant french cyclotouring bikes, though they will still be distinguishable in that they will appear to me to have a dodecahedronal front wheel.
08-14-09, 03:59 PM
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Of what's been posted so far, there's not much that really appeals to me. The Herse is sure beautiful but in a rugged, utilitarian way. Color fades, sloping top tubes, low spoke count wheels, cranks that look like they're swollen from a beesting... these things just don't do anything for me.
More to my taste, and I'm just pulling this out of the hat since a link to it was posted yesterday, I have to mention the 1962 Raleigh Gran Sport:
more pictures in the Rydjor Bike Collection.
More to my taste, and I'm just pulling this out of the hat since a link to it was posted yesterday, I have to mention the 1962 Raleigh Gran Sport:
more pictures in the Rydjor Bike Collection.
08-14-09, 04:28 PM
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It's a three-way tie.
Shown in order of age of the frame (and note the almost total lack of "period correctness" - at my age, "period correct" equals "can't go up anything steeper than a 1% grade
):
1967 Paramount:
1982-ish Ron Cooper:
1983 Fuso (built by Russ Denny, not Dave Moulton, as confirmed by Mr. Moulton himself here in C&V):
Shown in order of age of the frame (and note the almost total lack of "period correctness" - at my age, "period correct" equals "can't go up anything steeper than a 1% grade
):1967 Paramount:
1982-ish Ron Cooper:
1983 Fuso (built by Russ Denny, not Dave Moulton, as confirmed by Mr. Moulton himself here in C&V):
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08-14-09, 07:52 PM
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Sorry, but Old Fat Guy's on it: Dario's one of the true masters (you obviously didn't look at the Pegoretti he posted). On the other hand, Colnago hasn't built a frame himself since ... well, maybe ever. Do you think Ernesto is building those frames "himself," by hand? And what the heck does whether or not the framebuilder does his/her own painting have to do with anything anyway? You specified "vintage or modern" and then said Serottas look like lots of other bikes. How many vintage Serottas have you seen exactly? It's OK not to "get it," but then you should maybe be willing to stand up and say, "Hi, I'm Procione, and I don't get it."
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I own it!
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