Let's see your bicycles!

[HippieLee]

I don't currently have one but this is the one I want:


Tangerine colored single speed Mango Macaw. For rolling around the neighborhood to get a bit of exercise without being mistaken for a serious biker. My wife wants the same model in Mint Green (Although I'm still trying to talk her into the lime green to keep a citrus theme. And she'll thank me when she doesn't get scurvy!)

I like the tangerine color - it's my favorite LifeSaver flavor and one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs.

[Panache]

Thanks to all that shared their wonderful velocipedes!

Looking at my tandem I couldn't help but feel it lacked a certain pan... well in any case I thought I could improve it with a small upgrade.

So I removed the rear basket and added a vintage style crate. I hope you all approve ith:







Cheers

Jamie

[DyerStraits]

Here is my Raleigh. I have named her the Tardis as she is British, Blue and allows me to travel through time and space. This was originally my Uncle's bicycle when he passed I was given this bike and it is in very good condition as he never rode it in the rain, nor do I as the wheels are steel and the brakes don't respond very well when they get wet.

As the late, great Sheldon Brown often noted, a classic Sturmey-Archer-equipped 3-speed roadster (preferably British!) is hard to beat, and a far, far more versatile machine than it gets credit for, and they are enjoying a huge surge in popularity here in the Chicago area. I recently refurbished a beautiful Hercules women's model--original olive green frame color, original factory-installed chrome fenders, front cargo rack, Brooks saddle and head-lamp--which I sold to an absolutely thrilled neighbor.

Happy New Year To All My Kilted, Fellow Cyclist Brethren!

[Liam]

Like it Jamie...

[DyerStraits]

Some of my collection:

Mid 1970's roadster


My winter Commuter - note the studded tires


My summer commuter


The pride of my collection - a 1911 Canadian Cycle and Motor Company Brantford Model 534 (later to be known as CCM)


My 2 late 1960's Raleigh 20 folders

A fine collection, Liam. The Raleigh Twenty seems to be enjoying renewed popularity here in the US, with more people discovering the convenience and economy of inter-modal commuting by bike, and like most vintage foldies they have sharply appreciated in value. And vintage CCMs are excellent machines. I found a nice vintage CCM road bike in a resale shop a few years ago--Reynolds 531 frame, mostly original components, in excellent condition. It rode and handled like a Rolls-Royce, and I sold it to a young man from Detroit who knew and appreciated EXACTLY what he was getting. The original Canadian-built Sekines are, as you surely know, exceptional bikes too. Here is a 1974 Sekine SHC--which also rode like an absolute dream--that I refurbished and sold last summer:




Happy New Year To All My Kilted, Fellow Cyclist Brethren!

[DyerStraits]

My current primary road bike, a 2010 Specialized Allez.
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My current mountain bike, a 2013 Specialized Hard Rock 29er
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My most recent purchase, a 1973 Raleigh Super Course to be used for commuting and a spare road bike. (Some adjustments have been made since this picture - seat post turned correctly, new brake levers, and a couple other small changes).
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With the possible exception of the Peugeot PX10, the Super Course is arguably the greatest entry-level performance road bike ever built. The Nottingham factory turned out zillions of them, and it is wonderful, yet not surprising, how many of them are still on the road today, often with quite a few of the original components--especially the Stronglight crankset and Mafac center-pull caliper brakes. Absolutely a bike for the ages...

[DyerStraits]

My aforementioned red Trek Y-foil, and my Giant TCR Aero (the last year it was made from aluminum before they switched to carbon fiber), which was way more bike than my legs could do justice and which I later sold to a co-worker:

[2a5t2f7]

Good exercise, poor hill climber.....

[DyerStraits]

"May The Road Rise To Meet You...."

[DyerStraits]

<3 bikes!

My All City Nature Boy, roadie all-arounder and cyclocross race bike, steel is real. I absolutely love this bike to death. It has drop bars most of the year but in the fall it gets flats for racing.



Back in the day I raced with a guy who had a Fuso and I always, always wanted one. Earlier this year a frame in my size popped up and I was finally able to satisfy a 25 year jones. It's made from Columbus steel, handmade before handmade bikes were cool, and it rides like a dream.


My Singular Swift 29er singlespeed. Singular is a small company over in the UK, run by an Australian guy, that makes no-BS steel bikes. I've had lots of mountain bikes over the years but this one is my favorite by a huge margin. I'll never sell it.



A bike on a bike!


Salsa Mukluk fatbike. Big, heavy, floats over everything, loads of fun.



Yes, I went mountain biking in a kilt. Once. Dumbest idea ever.

Nice collection, Bob! I've heard lengendary things about Fuso frames but have never actually seen one. Always happy to hear of someone who's succeeded in scratching the Vintage Italian Steel Road Bike Itch! I'd been longing for one since I was a teen-ager and my best friend just went out and, without telling me, bought a brand-new (1980ish) Bianchi Nuovo Record. My first was a Gios Professional, then a Simoncini, then an ALAN (OK, that one was aluminum and carbon fiber) then a Bianchi Volpe (in Celeste, of course). I still long however for a vintage 70s or 80s Colnago, Pinarello, Atala, Basso, Ciocc, Benotto, etc. I spent two weeks vacationing all over Italy this past summer, and many of the hybrid/city/commuter/utility "beater" bikes I saw were conversions of high-end '60s, 70s and 80s Italian road bikes. Incredible!

And every few months or so I have a dream that I've just bought a vintage motorcycle (a Ducati perhaps, or maybe a BMW), and I'm riding it home on a nice winding stretch of road, stopping of at the bar to show it to my drinking buddies, etc. My girlfriend has a fit just hearing me talk about it....