The R3V Bicycle Thread

[T3rd Ferguson]

Weinmanns are so cheap it's almost the same price to build them up. Buy the hub, buy the rim, buy all the spokes and have an LBS lace them up for you.

[scabzzzz]

Is gas running out constantly near you guys?
I havent even considered driving my car unless its to work. My bike goes with me everywhere....

Its coming to Oktoberfest this coming week too..

[T3rd Ferguson]

Is gas running out constantly near you guys?
I havent even considered driving my car unless its to work. My bike goes with me everywhere....

Its coming to Oktoberfest this coming week too..

Don't rub it in butthole.

Gas is 3.58 here too. Let me rub that in. Does it feel good? I bet.

[Jand3rson]

I wish I lived close enough to ride to work. Unfortunately, work is about 50 miles away.

[aproy]

id put pics up of the new hour, but you all know what it looks like. its stock (4 days old) with a green brooks on it.

so heres my 1920 Janu Special. All original minus the rims.

http://velospace.org/node/13833

[Jand3rson]

Absolutely fucking AMAZING. Don't change a thing. Don't even clean it up. :shock:

I was at a swap meet last weekend and saw an old John Deere 10 speed, that had the right dropouts to be a fixie, and he only wanted $20 for it. But I had no way to get it home. Later, my friend Colin tells me that they are rare as shit, and I should have just ridden it home.

[T3rd Ferguson]

Holy fucking dick... do you actually ride it?

[Jand3rson]

I would ride the shit out of it. So fucking awesome.

[T3rd Ferguson]

I would just be scared something would break and what are the chances of replacing it? lulz- NONE

[aproy]

to be honest, i just got. i pumped up the tires and took it for a spin, absolutely! it rides like its got a soul, if you can picture that. i am into vintage motorcycles too and you can almost feel all the road its traveled.

i even saw pictures of this actual bike being raced at the newark velodrome. the guy had it all! hes making copies for me as we speak. newspaper articles and actual photographs.

i would like to put new tubes in it, and the bearings in the rear hub are pretty warn. but it is so cool to ride it.

[T3rd Ferguson]

That's amazing. If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pick it up for? It's obvious the guy knew what he had.

[aproy]

i should have bought a set of aerospokes...

but i am a sucker for history, and this bike has a ton of stories to tell. the wooden rims were replaced because the man i bought it from was riding it in newark streets all the time after his father was finished racing, the rims were getting beat up to bad so they were replaced in 1945. wish i had those too.

[T3rd Ferguson]

My friend steve has 17 aerospokes sitting in his shop right now. I wonder if he would notice if one was missing

[aproy]

haha, ya thats really what i probably should have done. but i heard about this from a friend of a friend of a guy who works with another friend... you know how those go. and i thought it was just too good to be true. so i took a look. turns out the 80 year old man i met really knew his shit. ill just have to keep saving.

[T3rd Ferguson]

That's amazing. I'd love to own a piece of history like that. I thought my old '71 was a dinosaur