New old bike

[Resound]

Spotted a cute looking roadie at the St Vinnies near work today and
snaffled it for a friend. Looks about early 80s vintage, 6 spd cluster
and strangely enough mostly French componentry. Huret derailleurs (not
particularly classy, I believe) with medium tasty downtube shifters,
Weinmann brakes, which seem pretty good particularly given how badly
they're adjusted and a rather nice looking old wheelset with Maillard
hubs, dunno what the rims are. I haven't looked all that closely at the
crankset yet, but my mental image is of a medium pretty double with
distinctly passable track pedals and metal toeclips. The frame is
rather pretty with a really funky seat tube/stays cluster and quality
looking dropouts. If it wasn't too big for me I'd so keep it. $15
seemed a bit of a bargain. Photos to come as it's parked here at work
in the underground car park.


--
Resound

[Graeme Dods]

Resound wrote:
> Spotted a cute looking roadie at the St Vinnies near work today and
> snaffled it for a friend. Looks about early 80s vintage, 6 spd cluster
> and strangely enough mostly French componentry. Huret derailleurs (not
> particularly classy, I believe) with medium tasty downtube shifters,
> Weinmann brakes, which seem pretty good particularly given how badly
> they're adjusted and a rather nice looking old wheelset with Maillard
> hubs, dunno what the rims are.

Sounds very like my first "racer" a Viking Superstar with all the same
components you mention (but with 5 speed). Hopefully it doesn't have
the same saddle though, ouch!

Graeme

[Resound]

"Graeme Dods" > wrote in message
ups.com...
>
> Resound wrote:
>> Spotted a cute looking roadie at the St Vinnies near work today and
>> snaffled it for a friend. Looks about early 80s vintage, 6 spd cluster
>> and strangely enough mostly French componentry. Huret derailleurs (not
>> particularly classy, I believe) with medium tasty downtube shifters,
>> Weinmann brakes, which seem pretty good particularly given how badly
>> they're adjusted and a rather nice looking old wheelset with Maillard
>> hubs, dunno what the rims are.
>
> Sounds very like my first "racer" a Viking Superstar with all the same
> components you mention (but with 5 speed). Hopefully it doesn't have
> the same saddle though, ouch!
>
> Graeme
>

I took another look at it as I was leaving work. It's not a lugged framed
but rather a very cute fillet welded or tig welded frame. Given the age. I'd
back fillet.

[Patrick Keogh]

Resound wrote:
> "Graeme Dods" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
>> Resound wrote:
>>> Spotted a cute looking roadie at the St Vinnies near work today and
>>> snaffled it for a friend. Looks about early 80s vintage, 6 spd cluster
>>> and strangely enough mostly French componentry. Huret derailleurs (not
>>> particularly classy, I believe) with medium tasty downtube shifters,
>>> Weinmann brakes, which seem pretty good particularly given how badly
>>> they're adjusted and a rather nice looking old wheelset with Maillard
>>> hubs, dunno what the rims are.
>> Sounds very like my first "racer" a Viking Superstar with all the same
>> components you mention (but with 5 speed). Hopefully it doesn't have
>> the same saddle though, ouch!
>>
>> Graeme
>>
>
> I took another look at it as I was leaving work. It's not a lugged framed
> but rather a very cute fillet welded or tig welded frame. Given the age. I'd
> back fillet.
>
>
Gosh, this made me think about my first roadie, so I went looking for
it, and here it was in a catalogue at Sheldon Brown. Some ******* stole
it in 1975 and I grieved for years. I really loved that bike.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/catalogs/Raleigh-Catalog-1974.pdf
(it was the Raleigh Competition Mk II).

[Karen Gallagher]

Patrick Keogh wrote:
> Resound wrote:
>> "Graeme Dods" > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>>> Resound wrote:
>>>> Spotted a cute looking roadie at the St Vinnies near work today and
>>>> snaffled it for a friend. Looks about early 80s vintage, 6 spd
>>>> cluster and strangely enough mostly French componentry. Huret
>>>> derailleurs (not particularly classy, I believe) with medium tasty
>>>> downtube shifters, Weinmann brakes, which seem pretty good
>>>> particularly given how badly they're adjusted and a rather nice
>>>> looking old wheelset with Maillard hubs, dunno what the rims are.
>>> Sounds very like my first "racer" a Viking Superstar with all the
>>> same components you mention (but with 5 speed). Hopefully it
>>> doesn't have the same saddle though, ouch!
>>>
>>> Graeme
>>>
>>
>> I took another look at it as I was leaving work. It's not a lugged
>> framed but rather a very cute fillet welded or tig welded frame.
>> Given the age. I'd back fillet.
>>
>>
> Gosh, this made me think about my first roadie, so I went looking for
> it, and here it was in a catalogue at Sheldon Brown. Some *******
> stole it in 1975 and I grieved for years. I really loved that bike.
>
> http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/catalogs/Raleigh-Catalog-1974.pdf
> (it was the Raleigh Competition Mk II).

My first road bike was a beautiful Hetchins, hand made in London with curly
rear stays & wonderfully detailed lugwork, Campag everything. Which I'd
never sold it 35 years ago :P

Karen

--
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
- Slartibartfast

[Resound]

"Patrick Keogh" > wrote in message
...
> Resound wrote:
>> "Graeme Dods" > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>>> Resound wrote:
>>>> Spotted a cute looking roadie at the St Vinnies near work today and
>>>> snaffled it for a friend. Looks about early 80s vintage, 6 spd cluster
>>>> and strangely enough mostly French componentry. Huret derailleurs (not
>>>> particularly classy, I believe) with medium tasty downtube shifters,
>>>> Weinmann brakes, which seem pretty good particularly given how badly
>>>> they're adjusted and a rather nice looking old wheelset with Maillard
>>>> hubs, dunno what the rims are.
>>> Sounds very like my first "racer" a Viking Superstar with all the same
>>> components you mention (but with 5 speed). Hopefully it doesn't have
>>> the same saddle though, ouch!
>>>
>>> Graeme
>>>
>>
>> I took another look at it as I was leaving work. It's not a lugged framed
>> but rather a very cute fillet welded or tig welded frame. Given the age.
>> I'd back fillet.
> Gosh, this made me think about my first roadie, so I went looking for it,
> and here it was in a catalogue at Sheldon Brown. Some ******* stole it in
> 1975 and I grieved for years. I really loved that bike.
>
> http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/catalogs/Raleigh-Catalog-1974.pdf
> (it was the Raleigh Competition Mk II).

Which reminds me, given that I *did* buy it from a 2nd hand shop for $15,
I'll post pics at the earliest opportunity. If someone says "Hey that's my
bike! Some fscker stole that from me last month!" then we can work something
out.

[DeF]

Patrick Keogh wrote:
> Resound wrote:
>> "Graeme Dods" > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>>> Resound wrote:
>>>> Spotted a cute looking roadie at the St Vinnies near work today and
>>>> snaffled it for a friend. Looks about early 80s vintage, 6 spd cluster
>>>> and strangely enough mostly French componentry. Huret derailleurs (not
>>>> particularly classy, I believe) with medium tasty downtube shifters,
>>>> Weinmann brakes, which seem pretty good particularly given how badly
>>>> they're adjusted and a rather nice looking old wheelset with Maillard
>>>> hubs, dunno what the rims are.
>>> Sounds very like my first "racer" a Viking Superstar with all the same
>>> components you mention (but with 5 speed). Hopefully it doesn't have
>>> the same saddle though, ouch!
>>>
>>> Graeme
>>>
>>
>> I took another look at it as I was leaving work. It's not a lugged
>> framed but rather a very cute fillet welded or tig welded frame. Given
>> the age. I'd back fillet.
>>
> Gosh, this made me think about my first roadie, so I went looking for
> it, and here it was in a catalogue at Sheldon Brown. Some ******* stole
> it in 1975 and I grieved for years. I really loved that bike.
>
> http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/catalogs/Raleigh-Catalog-1974.pdf
> (it was the Raleigh Competition Mk II).

Couldn't load that page, was it anything like my first roadie
of a similar vintage (circa 1978) shown here with its proud owner?
http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~dfarrow/images/RayleighScorpio.jpg
Hmmm, steel cottered cranks. How I don't miss those.

DeF

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To reply, you'll have to remove your finger.

[TimC]

On 2006-05-30, Resound (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> "Patrick Keogh" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Gosh, this made me think about my first roadie, so I went looking for it,
>> and here it was in a catalogue at Sheldon Brown. Some ******* stole it in
>> 1975 and I grieved for years. I really loved that bike.
>>
>> http://www.sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/catalogs/Raleigh-Catalog-1974.pdf
>> (it was the Raleigh Competition Mk II).

On the super tourer page, where's that guy's hand in the photo at the
top?

> Which reminds me, given that I *did* buy it from a 2nd hand shop for $15,
> I'll post pics at the earliest opportunity. If someone says "Hey that's my
> bike! Some fscker stole that from me last month!" then we can work something
> out.

Hey! That's my bike! Some fscker stole it from me last month!

--
TimC
I don't want Perl to be beautiful -- I want you to write
beautiful programs in Perl. --Larry Wall

[TimC]

On 2006-05-31, DeF (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Couldn't load that page, was it anything like my first roadie
> of a similar vintage (circa 1978) shown here with its proud owner?
> http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~dfarrow/images/RayleighScorpio.jpg
> Hmmm, steel cottered cranks. How I don't miss those.

Oooh, that seat could have been better adjusted!

--
TimC
"I'm gonna show you a hill that would choke a mule."
-- President G.W. Bush on his MTB moments before losing his
front-wheel traction and flying over his bars down a steep dropoff.

[Resound]

Here's the pics with new tyres. It's funny, the "25mm" tyres that were on it
were a hell of a lot narrower than the 23mm Vittorias I replaced them with.
The last three pics are of the "new" bike.
http://flickr.com/photos/34933544@N00/sets/1010754/

[Greg Walton]

"Resound" > wrote in message
...
> Here's the pics with new tyres. It's funny, the "25mm" tyres that were on
> it were a hell of a lot narrower than the 23mm Vittorias I replaced them
> with. The last three pics are of the "new" bike.
> http://flickr.com/photos/34933544@N00/sets/1010754/

Nice pick up. That's an MBK which I think is related to Motobecane. I
remember them most for the mopeds that they sold in Australia. There are
plenty of MBK's like yours out on the streets of Zurich. That bike would
probably be worth $150-200 here at the moment as an old roadie/rennrad is
the fashionable thing to be seen on.

Cheers,
Greg

[flyingdutch]

i saw that leaning against post out front of Vinnies (was it?) on
Thursday?
Black iseem to remember??
Also a cool lil' goirls bike next to it :D


--
flyingdutch

[Resound]

"flyingdutch" > wrote in
message ...
>
> i saw that leaning against post out front of Vinnies (was it?) on
> Thursday?
> Black iseem to remember??
> Also a cool lil' goirls bike next to it :D
>
>
> --
> flyingdutch
>

The black one appears to be what replaced it and isn't half as nice.

[Resound]

"Greg Walton" > wrote in message
. ..
> "Resound" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Here's the pics with new tyres. It's funny, the "25mm" tyres that were on
>> it were a hell of a lot narrower than the 23mm Vittorias I replaced them
>> with. The last three pics are of the "new" bike.
>> http://flickr.com/photos/34933544@N00/sets/1010754/
>
> Nice pick up. That's an MBK which I think is related to Motobecane. I
> remember them most for the mopeds that they sold in Australia. There are
> plenty of MBK's like yours out on the streets of Zurich. That bike would
> probably be worth $150-200 here at the moment as an old roadie/rennrad is
> the fashionable thing to be seen on.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg

Yeah, I googled and discovered that. Apparently Motobecane had financial
issues about that time, went out of business and then came back initially
selling "MBK" bikes. This appears to be my bargain for the year.