First up is my other English 3, a 1950 Raleigh Lenton Tourist.
-1950 dated Sturmey Archer AW
-original "aluminium" Raleigh style brake calipers
- ISO 597 rims (again, aluminium)
- 20" Reynolds 531 (single butted) frame, with a hi-tensile fork
- Brooks B66 saddle (original)
Next is the American version of it - a 1954 Schwinn Racer
- not-original Bendix kickback 2 speed hub
- Laced and built steel ISO590 rims
- completely original Schwinn pedals, crank, handlebars, stem, frame, saddle, and seatpost
One that came home with me today - waiting to be built up for my mom to ride - 1983 Raleigh Rapide
- originally a 10 speed, with cottered BB, stem shifters, and drop bars
- later converted to North Roads bars, and a coaster brake
- will retain the coaster (laced into 700c rims sporting 700X40 tires), be painted robin's egg blue (cream head tube), and wear a Velo-Orange Model 8 (same as the Phillips)
The Mountain bike - 1986 Bianchi Osprey
- Shimano Tourney components
- will be receiving the Bullmoose bars from the Univega (see below)
- 18" frame
Now, into the fast bikes...
1987 Cannondale Black Lightning
- Suntour Sprint components (all black anodized)
- Brooks B17 saddle (5,000+ miles)
- Bontrager bar tape
- Continental Ultra-Sport yellow tread tires (700X23c)
- Aluminum frame, cromoly fork - total weight, 18.5 lbs
1989 Nishiki Modulus
- Full Tange #2 cromoly (22 lbs total)
- Anodized Araya rims, laced to Suntour hubs
- Dia Compe components
- the deepest drops I've ever used...
- pre-softened NOS Brooks Professional saddle
- Michelin Speedium 700X25c tires (grey tread)
1990 Fuji Palisade
- Ishiwata triple butted cromoly tubing
- Araya 27" (ISO 630) front rim
- Weinmann single-walled 27" rear rim
- Shimano 6 speed freewheel
- Alhonga dual pivot brake calipers (modified by moi)
- Dia Compe brake levers
- CST hi-pressure 27X28c tires
- Zefal fenders
- Rivendell mudflaps
- Brooks B17N saddle
- Suntour friction DT shifters
- Shimano Tourney rear derailer
- Suntour XCM front derailer
- harlequin handlebar wrap (Tressostar cloth tape, red and black)
1973 Peugeot UO-8
- 62 cm Peugeot Speciale tubing
- Cinelli handlebars
- Belleri 22mm stem
- Campagnolo brake levers
- Varnished and Shellacked black cloth bar tape
- Planet Bike fenders
- Shimano dual pivot (long reach) calipers
- Alex Deep V rims laced to Formula hubs (rear flip flop)
- 48t Schwinn Approved crankset
- 17 tooth fixed gear
- 16 tooth freewheel
- Panaracer Pasela (700X25c)
1994 Univega Activa Trail
This bike was purchased 3 years ago as my commuter. It originally started out with riser bars, 700X38c tires, and a super huge (and super fugly) neoprene saddle. The risers made my hands numb, so I swapped to North Roads bars. Once I moved to a place with a bike club, it made sense for this to be the fast bike (lightest, best equipped bike I had then), so I got a set of Shimano aero levers, a co-op special aluminum drop bar, Suntour bar end shifters, and 700X28c tires (the smallest I could go). After I started my go-fast collection, I got a wild hair, and put bullmoose bars and thumb shifters on it...yeah, I don't know either. I rode it exactly twice, hated it, and shelved it until later. It'll be going back, so when updated, it'll be...
- Araya rims laced to Sunshin hubs
- 7 speed Suntour freewheel
- Suntour triple crankset (48X36X28)
- Schwalbe Kojack 700X35c tires
- the Co-op no-name bars
- Suntour power ratchet bar end shifters
- Brooks B17 saddle (eventually)
- SKS Esge fenders
- Dia Compe brake levers
- Dia Compe cantilever brakes (for now...)
Can you tell I like Brooks saddles? IMO, the best thing you could buy for your bike. Get one, ride it 500 miles, you won't regret it.
Not pictured - 1982 Schwinn World Tourist
- 1956 Raleigh Dawn Tourist (step through frame)
- 1962 Sears beach cruiser (middleweight)
- 1979 Raleigh Professional (basket case)
And of course, the Phillips 3 speed.
