What's the rarest or most obscure bike in your collection?

[El Chaba]

A Gios with Vitus tubing.....

[Hilltopperny]

I suppose these two are now the rarest I currently own. There are less than 25 Old Kings that have come out of the No22 shop and only a few set up with the carbon Lefty fork. So this is a pretty uncommon bike and a titanium hardtail that you won’t likely see many places.
The other is a CHT Serotta that was built and owned by Frank over at No22. He recently refinished the frame and hung some pretty cool parts on it. This is one of the coolest and nicest frames I have owned. Old school Serotta with Colorado Concept tubing, swaged seat stays, 3D xl dropouts, two tone custom anodized graphics on a bead blasted frame. I don’t know how many of these were produced, but there aren’t any other like this one!


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[El Chaba]

I am nominating this one as rare since I searched for on in my size in good condition for about 35 years off and on....At first glance, it appears like thousands of other Peugeot PY 10 s from the time period. When you look closer, you start to see differences like how nicely the lugs are thinned and finished, drilled rear dropout faces, Reynolds Continental fork blades, great chrome and paint work and other things that were not typical of Peugeot’s from the day. In fact, this is a PRO 10 model which was made in a small shop detached from the Peugeot factory that handled building bikes for the professional team and they were available on a limited basis to the public by special order. This one is from February 1981, so will turn 40 next month. I like to imagine that it was made right after one for Gilbert Duclos LaSalle and right before one made for Phil Anderson.

[glepore]

Don Ferris was a framebuilder before he started the Anvil fixture business, and continued to build a few as that business got rolling. This bike was built in that era, early 2000's. Mix of a number of tubes with the aim of a light steel bike for a small rider. Its around 17 lbs built, despite the fancy buttressed lugs. I has some crazy details, including curved seatstays, my initials brazed on the tt, and a stem made from ovalized aero tubing that required crazy work to reshape the lugs.

I crashed it badly in 2013, denting the downtube. In 2018 I had Spectrum repair it, Jeff brazed in a new dt without shift bosses and Tom did the amazing paint.

[robt57]

Lugged stem on that Anvil?

[glepore]

Originally Posted by robt57

Lugged stem on that Anvil?

Yep. Aero section, Don sweated over those lugs to reshape.

[Steve in SLO]

Beautiful Anvil.
I have a cyclocross and a Foco travel frame built by Don. He was indeed a master when he was building.

[robt57]

Originally Posted by glepore

Yep. Aero section, Don sweated over those lugs to reshape.

Superb!

[velomateo]

Originally Posted by El Chaba

I am nominating this one as rare since I searched for on in my size in good condition for about 35 years off and on....At first glance, it appears like thousands of other Peugeot PY 10 s from the time period. When you look closer, you start to see differences like how nicely the lugs are thinned and finished, drilled rear dropout faces, Reynolds Continental fork blades, great chrome and paint work and other things that were not typical of Peugeot’s from the day. In fact, this is a PRO 10 model which was made in a small shop detached from the Peugeot factory that handled building bikes for the professional team and they were available on a limited basis to the public by special order. This one is from February 1981, so will turn 40 next month. I like to imagine that it was made right after one for Gilbert Duclos LaSalle and right before one made for Phil Anderson.

This requires it's own thread...and more pics.

[bil]

OMG, there are amazing, beautiful and rare bikes in this thread indeed! Love it.

wanted to contribute with my (well, now sold) Stork. I believe there were only 100 of these 0.7IS manufactured.
The total weight (without pedals) was 11lbs
Rare and unique bicycle for sure

Paul

[one60]

Anyone have a bike from Nestor Czernysz?

https://www.instagram.com/n_czernysz/

[soupless]

Not mine anymore, but it was for a while. Not sure if I ever posted it here.

[Velocipede]

Originally Posted by glepore

Don Ferris was a framebuilder before he started the Anvil fixture business, and continued to build a few as that business got rolling. This bike was built in that era, early 2000's. Mix of a number of tubes with the aim of a light steel bike for a small rider. Its around 17 lbs built, despite the fancy buttressed lugs. I has some crazy details, including curved seatstays, my initials brazed on the tt, and a stem made from ovalized aero tubing that required crazy work to reshape the lugs.

I crashed it badly in 2013, denting the downtube. In 2018 I had Spectrum repair it, Jeff brazed in a new dt without shift bosses and Tom did the amazing paint.

Originally Posted by one60

Anyone have a bike from Nestor Czernysz?

https://www.instagram.com/n_czernysz/

An Anvil frame is rare now. Don made beautiful frames and even better frame building jigs.

Nestor, he's insanely talented.

[tuscanyswe]

Originally Posted by soupless

Not mine anymore, but it was for a while. Not sure if I ever posted it here.

Thats a rare bike idd. I love those.

[bil]

something special, never seen it, very cool bicycle!