Reply With QuoteI know how you feel, Lionel. I went to the vintage truck show a week or two back. I'd be happy to drive some of the displayed trucks anywhere in the country.
TopicToaster
Hello All,
Just out of interest I went online to see if I could trace down some components of my old road racing bike. Coming from Goulburn bike racing was a popular sport.
I managed to track down the tubing for the frame ... Ishiwata double butted "022" tube that weighed 2.2 kilos over a set calibrated length. Ishiwata was a Japanese tubing manufacturer that offered a full range of CrMo (Chromoly or Chrome Moly) tubing.
I found the listing on the following website under the heading Guide to vintage road bike steel frame tube manufacturers and types. Accessed 31st May 2023 from,
Guide to vintage road bike steel frame tube manufacturers and types – Frugal Average Bicyclist. Gee, Vintage bikes!
Hmmm... Sapim or just 'Pim' double butted race spokes for the wheels. Or entirely another manufacturer called 'Pym.' (Sapim Race Double Butted Spoke - Wheelbuilder).
Campagnolo Record wheel hubs and rims for race day
Fiamme Red rims and Shimano hubs for the training wheels( S.A. Fiamme of Milano | condorino)
Shimano 600 ... crank set, crank axle and bearing sets. Plus gears and related parts ... see 100 PRODUCTS HISTORY - SHIMANO 600 | SHIMANO
It meant a trip to Sydney to pick these parts up.
When blokes the same age were into cars, I was into tweaking my racing bike. I was also ultra fit back then. Vintage bikes - Indeed!
Kind regards
Lionel
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YarnMaster
That reminds me of my bike racing days back in the UK yonks ago. I followed elder bro into it and built my own bike with an Italian Fiorellie frame, Campags gears and hubs, Fiamme rims, Mafac Centre pull brakes etc. I spent a lot of time down the local swimming pool as well as cycling and heard someone calling over the loudspeaker for the owner of a 'Raleigh' bike to report to the office. I didn't as that wasn't my bike.
But when I went past the office on my way out there was my bike minus the front wheel!
The bloke on the loudspeaker couldn't work out how to say 'Fiorelli' and thought it should be Raleigh..... :0
Anyway, I'd had the bike locked up but the front wheel was easy to nick as it had Campagnolo large flange quick release hubs.
I wheeled it round to the local copshop on it's back wheel and reported it and the big old sergeant on the desk he laughed when I told him the estimated value of it. "That's more than my whole bikes worth" he said. My reply was 'yes I can believe that" as they only had real old style bikes back then.
Anyway, good news a week or so later as they got a bloke for stealing bikes and anything else he could lay his hands on and because my wheel looked so different to all the other bikes and stuff he'd stashed away in his shed I got it back.
AlanH.
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Claude J. Greengrass?Originally Posted by ATH
That reminds me of my bike racing days back in the UK yonks ago. I followed elder bro into it and built my own bike with an Italian Fiorellie frame, Campags gears and hubs, Fiamme rims, Mafac Centre pull brakes etc. I spent a lot of time down the local swimming pool as well as cycling and heard someone calling over the loudspeaker for the owner of a 'Raleigh' bike to report to the office. I didn't as that wasn't my bike.
But when I went past the office on my way out there was my bike minus the front wheel!
The bloke on the loudspeaker couldn't work out how to say 'Fiorelli' and thought it should be Raleigh..... :0
Anyway, I'd had the bike locked up but the front wheel was easy to nick as it had Campagnolo large flange quick release hubs.
I wheeled it round to the local copshop on it's back wheel and reported it and the big old sergeant on the desk he laughed when I told him the estimated value of it. "That's more than my whole bikes worth" he said. My reply was 'yes I can believe that" as they only had real old style bikes back then.
Anyway, good news a week or so later as they got a bloke for stealing bikes and anything else he could lay his hands on and because my wheel looked so different to all the other bikes and stuff he'd stashed away in his shed I got it back.
AlanH.
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
Swaggie
I had no idea Campy was so big back in the day. Although you do hear about it, you never really see it. These days it's just about all Shimano and Sram.
It's amazing how over all of these years the bikes have developed so much, but they're still very much the same.
Cheers
Slunnie
~ Discovery II Td5 ~ Discovery 3dr V8 ~ Series IIa 6cyl ute ~ Series II V8 ute ~
OldBushie
You know they’re not… they’re radically different!
The new model has been adjusted by 0.005° and is 13grams lighter
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