How old is your bike?

Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too small
but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

(all ages are appox)

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Regards, Joe

Joe Potter said:

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too small
but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

I doubt its the oldest, but I have been riding a 1976 vintage Triumph Trafficmaster this year.

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My 1971 Gitane Tour de France (repainted twice) is probably not at all among the leaders. But I'm
the original owner (Hi, Mike J -- I still ride it !).

Back then, for $199.50 you got tubular tires ("sew-ups"😉, Reynolds 531 double-butted tubing
throughout, Stronglight cranks, and Simplex derailleurs. And an uncomfortable plastic seat. Can't
remember whose center-pull brakes were original (I put Universal side-pulls on shortly after getting
the bike).

- Skip

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Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too small
but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

(all ages are appox)

--
Regards, Joe

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Quoted message said:

Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too small
but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

(all ages are appox)

My only bike is a Schwinn LeTour (aka LeTank), built in 1979, which I bartered for in 1984.

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Quoted message said:

Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too small
but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

My oldest bike is a '63 Schwinn Panther III, although I don't ride it very often. My next oldest
bike is currently being refurbished - a 1970 Schwinn World Sport.

-Buck

Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:21:25 GMT,

Quoted post said:

Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too small
but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

(all ages are appox)

My Ellis-Briggs Professional was hand built in 1974 and Witcomb in 1980. I fixed a red Knecht, Swiss
built road bike from the trash, that also appears to have been built in the early/mid-seventies.
(Butted tubes, Zeus fork ends and drop-outs, hand brazed lugs, straight, no dents, and my size.)

My every-day urban bomber is a 1985 Norco Sasquatch, lugged cro-mo MTB, frame built up in 2000
and gradually upgraded. If its angles were slightly less relaxed, it would be a better bike for
my riding.
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zk

My fixed gear is a late 1960's Sun, built for road time trials. Nice long stays give a
Cadillac ride.

The paint was pretty beat when I bought it for $200 a few years back, eventually I had CycleArt
restore it.

Chris Neary [email hidden]

"Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Bicycling combined all the
elements I loved" - Adapted from a quotation by Charles Lindbergh

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My 1971 Gitane Tour de France (repainted twice) is probably not at all among the leaders. But I'm
the original owner (Hi, Mike J -- I still ride it !).

Back then, for $199.50 you got tubular tires ("sew-ups"😉, Reynolds 531 double-butted tubing
throughout, Stronglight cranks, and Simplex derailleurs. And an uncomfortable plastic seat. Can't
remember whose center-pull brakes were original

Had to have been Mafacs.

[censored] Durbin

Mines a 1964 Moulton Deluxe im, still cristening it 70 miles on the odo, Upgrading the parts for
alloy upgrades, hunting a big TA chainset is frightening (cost) but 52/64 twin would be nice!, the 4
speed FW SA hub on the back has a great range and those HP 349 tires are so free rolling it
practicly moves itself. Ive been truly amazed at the acceleration you can get from these small
wheels if shod and grared adequatly .......Throw in the Front and rear suspention and you start to
realise just how many years Mr moulton was ahead of his time! ... its my baby Have abandoned all
riding of my FS MTB Emmele on anything but true dirty and knarly rides around the local woods and
trails. Rob D

"Joe Potter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too small
but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

(all ages are appox)

--
Regards, Joe

"Joe Potter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

Not nearly the oldest, but still worth mentioning:

My Schwinn Twinn tandem (1970) is still going strong. My commuter rig is a Schwinn Sprint from
1979/1980. I also own a Schwinn 1976 Super LeTour that I got a few months ago.

Mine's a hand made bike I bought from a little shopowner who also sold at the Orange Country Swap
Meet in California where I bought it in 1988. It's one of the older mountain bike "cruisers" with
the big seat and wide handlebars. Sort of heavy, but as I ride for exercise that's fine. Deep sky
blue color I have never seen on another bike since.

Cost a measly $180 and I wouldn't trade it for the world. In 15 years all I have had to fix is a
brake cable.

Yes, it's a magic bike. ;-)

About a month 🙂

Bill "veteran roadie*" S.

*mtb-er since '96

For the interested:

I have, but rarely ride a 1986 Schwinn World. I think it cost about $250 new.

My second purchase was a Raleigh Technium Tri-lite, purchased new for $450 in 1988. Thermal
bonded T6061 Aluminum with Suntour Cyclone components (still on bike). Can't recall what the
original seat was.

Couple of early-90s Fuji mountain bikes, one (Suncrest) which has been converted to my
commuting bike.

Current is a 2000 Fuji Newest.

Kerry

Joe Potter said:

Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too small
but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

(all ages are appox)

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Had to have been Mafacs.

Thanks, [censored].

They were. I had a memory block there.

- Skip

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My 1971 Gitane Tour de France (repainted twice) is probably not at all

among

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the leaders. But I'm the original owner (Hi, Mike J -- I still ride it

!).

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Quoted message said:

Back then, for $199.50 you got tubular tires ("sew-ups"😉, Reynolds 531 double-butted tubing
throughout, Stronglight cranks, and Simplex derailleurs. And an uncomfortable plastic seat.
Can't remember whose center-pull brakes were original

Had to have been Mafacs.

[censored] Durbin

Tim Lapin said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Kerry Nikolaisen

Quoted message said:

For the interested:

I have, but rarely ride a 1986 Schwinn World. I think it cost about $250 new.

Kerry

Joe Potter said:

Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too
small but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

My favourite is my Fiori Modena, bought in 1989 for about $450.00 CDN. Now 14 years old and still
going strong.

I also have a hybrid purchased for rides with the family, commuting, gravel paths,... I've used it
quite a bit this year as I changed my routine to include different places.

Still, when I managed to get back on my Fiori, it felt like coming home. It's amazing how, when
one finds that perfect bike, nothing else quite works and returning to that perfect bike is
always a joy.

Yes. My 1989 fuji just feels right to me. It is in the shop just now for a tune-up and I feel lost.
My almost new Cannondale hybrid is a nice bike --- but, just not the same. It will do for now, but
the Fuji road bike is so much fun; I guess it must be illegal.

--
Regards, Joe

In article <[email hidden]>, Kerry Nikolaisen

Quoted message said:

For the interested:

I have, but rarely ride a 1986 Schwinn World. I think it cost about $250 new.

Kerry

Joe Potter said:

Hello all,

I ride a Fuji from 1989 that I just love. I also ride a Nishiki from 1979 that is a tad too
small but I like it anyway.

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

My favourite is my Fiori Modena, bought in 1989 for about $450.00 CDN. Now 14 years old and still
going strong.

I also have a hybrid purchased for rides with the family, commuting, gravel paths,... I've used it
quite a bit this year as I changed my routine to include different places.

Still, when I managed to get back on my Fiori, it felt like coming home. It's amazing how, when
one finds that perfect bike, nothing else quite works and returning to that perfect bike is
always a joy.

--
Tim Lapin [email hidden]

Joe Potter said:

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

Any advance on my 1956 Mercian?

James Thomson

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Joe Potter said:

Who rides the oldest bike in this news group?

Not me.

Ryan Cousineau said:

If Sheldon follows this ng, then his Mead Ranger (ca. 1916) fixie project has you beat.

As does his '54 Columbia, '30s Hercules, '30s Elgin, '54 Rudge, '30s Torpedo ...

I'm holding out for a podium placing in the "Oldest Bike as Percentage of Rider Age:
European" category.

James Thomson