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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48543949292_02366c9950_k.jpg[url=https://flic.kr/p/2gXEqSY]August 7, 2019 by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/150060413@N08/]Russ Fitzgerald, on Flickr
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Howdy! This is an updated photo of this bike, now featuring Mavic MA3 rims laced to sealed-bearing fixed/fixed Kogswell hubs and with a set of Panaracer Pasela 28mm blackwall tires. In the years sin ... |
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This is a lovely bike. It is NOT gas-pipe, as a look at the next-to-last photo reveals a Reynolds 531 tubing decal on the seat tube. A clearer photo would be nice, but it looks like it's the label i ... |
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Here's an odd note - you know that British-style lamp bracket mounted on the left fork blade? It's on the LEFT fork blade, i.e., where it should be mounted on a bike ridden on the right side of the r ... |
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I signed up yesterday, but I've been lurking here and reading posts for several months now. I check it on average about 5 or 6 times a week. I suspect it will be more than that, now that I have a Gi ... |
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Close-up of touch-ups; extreme wabi-sabi? Still, way cooler than rattle-can can ever hope to be ... I spent too many years cleaning up vintage bikes and trying to retain originality to go cutting off ... |
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Howdy, all! I thought I'd post this, a circa 1972 TdF that I recently acquired as a frameset with BB and headset. I'd been stalking this one for a couple of years, waiting for planets to align corre ... |
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Have you tried Dale Brown at Cycles de Oro in Greensboro? (336) 274-5959 is the shop number. Dale is the listmaster for the classicrendezvous list and has more than a passing familiarity with French ... |
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