Steel Bike "Lovers" roll call
 

I want to know who out there is riding Steel and not giving up on their steel bikes. Just a shout out with the steel rig(s) your riding please.

Kogswell G58 street fixee
Serotta Uniscasi Rapid Tour
Co-Mo Co-Pilot Torpedo tandem
And incoming K Bedford Custom steel street fixee

Proletariat road
Waltworks offroad
CW bmx

Serotta CSi
Serotta Rapid Tour
Santana Arriva
Bike Friday Pocket Rocket Pro
Kirk JKS Terrpalane (incoming)

Kirk
Speedvagen
Saluki
Ron Cooper (1980)

I have other bikes of other materials. But I'll always have a steel bike.

Concorde Aquila PDM team
Ted Wojcik skinny

Rivendell Rambouillet - orignal orange, set up as a fixie with ENO hub
Rivendell Bleriot - Set up as townie
Brompton Folder

My two main road bikes are ti though, not because its better, just because they're better.

-Ray

Kirk Terraplane
Peg Marcelo (just rode)
Serotta "Big Dig"

Curt Goodrich
Peter Weigle
Mariposa
David Kirk
Rivendell Homer Hilsen
Kirk Pacenti (on loan, has a carbon fork, but I am still counting it!)

so does my peg (carbon fork). i say "it's ok."

Mariposa
Marinoni Leggero (EL-OS)
Gios Torino Super Record (SL)

I'm afraid that after the first ride on my Legend (April of this year) I have not ridden the steel bike that was my sole fair-weather road bike for the past ~8 years --a tig welded but beautiful old blue and yellow LeMond Zurich. I basically shrank and stiffened my way out of the LeMond (age-related changes), and as a result of its perfect fit and perhaps the design and materials, the Legend is soooo much more comfortable.

However, I have not abandoned steel! I have been on Dave Kirk's wait list since last winter and have spent an inordinate amount of time fantasizing about what that bike is going to be. I fell in love with lugged steel in my 20s when I shared an apartment with 2 serious bike racers for a number of years --one raced with a Masi and the other a Cinelli --both custom fitted and built by the great masters themselves. Nearly all of my riding in those days (~40 years ago) was commuting since I didn't own a car, but I also had the pleasure of using one of my apartment-mates training bikes, which was a delight in comparison to my series of clunky old commuters that kept getting stolen or, in one case, wrecked.

Needless to say pictures of my Kirk are going to be all over the internet once it arrives.

Thanks for asking Smiley!

Lew

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1976 Raleigh Professional
1984 Pinarello
2012 Richard Sachs Road

Zanconato Cross (The Effin Cross Bike)
Schwinn Peloton (The Recycler Fixie)




William

PS: Contemplating pulling the trigger on a Yamaguchi road bike.

Peter Mooney