Show us your steel.....its real...

[PMarkey]

Owned two Longstaff trikes over the years. Some of the most fun you can have cycling, until you end up in a ditch that is...

Tell me about it I was thrown into a lamp post last year on a steep descent when I let my confidence get the better of me, I broke my scapula in 3 places shattered the shoulder socket and broke the top of the socket away completely requiring a couple of screws to re attach it but as you say they are great fun


Paul

 

[tyred]

My almost timewarp Peugeot Pantera - all original apart from the tyres and brake cables. Sachs Huret indexed gears (which work like a dream). I've had it for ages but ride sparingly as I don't want to wear out the components. God knows where I'd find the right freewheel block to have the gears index properly. Apart from a few small marks on the paintwork and a slight ding in the back rim, it's pretty much perfect.

 

[lazyfatgit]

Early 90's Europa. Bit of a clean up and new cables ready for Noosa Strade Bianche in 2 weeks. New cartridge BB. B17 borrowed from the Brompton.

 

[DCBassman]

Trek 800 Sport 3

• DCBassman
• 18 Sep 2017

2002 spec, bought new for £199 in 2001

2001 Trek 800 Sport, all original including the cables.
Modern steel, but steel just the same! Only alloy bit is the bar - original was also steel.
I've probably done a 1000 miles or so tops on this.

 

[biggs682]

My Woodrup and a rather ideal road name .

 

[BSAMase]

drop bars etc to come slow progress

 

[booze and cake]

Cross posted from the vintage section, here's my latest, my Columbus SLX 1989 Bottecchia Equipe. Seen here with regular wheels, and in its Sunday best wheels. Full Italian, apart from the pedals which are French-Look Deltas. Full Campagnolo, 20 speed, mostly Chorus,

I've recently made some changes to my Denti too, I am just waiting for some new bottles cages which should arrive tomorrow, so once they're fitted I'll post a pic of that tomorrow. That's it for me, no space for any more bikes.

 

[betty swollocks]

Cross posted from the vintage section, here's my latest, my Columbus SLX 1989 Bottecchia Equipe. Seen here with regular wheels, and in its Sunday best wheels. Full Italian, apart from the pedals which are French-Look Deltas. Full Campagnolo, 20 speed, mostly Chorus,
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I've recently made some changes to my Denti too, I am just waiting for some new bottles cages which should arrive tomorrow, so once they're fitted I'll post a pic of that tomorrow. That's it for me, no space for any more bikes.

You're quite a tall person?

 

[DCBassman]

Also a cross post, cro-mo (it says) Claud Butler Urraco MTB. Apologies for it not being stood tidily against something!

 

[booze and cake]

@betty swollocks not especially, 6ft 1 inch or 185cm in modern money. I just favour frames on the small side. Finally Mr Postman arrived with my bottle cages, so here's my refitted Gilco tubing Columbus SL Denti, the first road bike I built up back in 2009. Its had a few incarnations over the years, the latest one sees new front derailleur, new tyres, I've changed the cable outers from white to black, new cables and a new seat post. Not a weight weenie bike but noticeably lighter than my other steel bikes, and the only one that doesn't have a 53/39 chainset, so its my go-to bike for really hilly days, or when I visit my folks in Wales.

EDIT: And I couldn't resist having a butchers at it wearing some more modern deep section wheels, seen here with some Shamal tubulars shod with the iconic Vittoria Open Pave's.

 

[PMarkey]

Taurus 531c in all it's incarnations since 2015 first as fixed gear

Then as a Trike with a Longstaff conversion

and now back to two wheels and running gears again built up with a Tiagra groupset but using 105 brakes .

Paul

 

[raleighnut]

Taurus 531c in all it's incarnations since 2015 first as fixed gear

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Then as a Trike with a Longstaff conversion

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and now back to two wheels and running gears again built up with a Tiagra groupset but using 105 brakes .
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Paul

Nice. New saddle too.

 

[mjr]

View attachment 423824 drop bars etc to come slow progress

Are those not drops mounted upside down aka flipped?

 

[BSAMase]

Are those not drops mounted upside down aka flipped?

Probably the new ones definetly are

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Following picture of my 1997 Peugeot posted few pages ago, that is now my Summer commuting bike, my 1985 Peugeot now gone through the same brilliant hands of Mark at Exmoor Bikes, powder coated, lots of new kit, and now my "old faithful" winter commuting bike is back, very much ready for action later this year.