Steel Bike "Lovers" roll call

[Waldo]

RS91 -- my office bike for lunch hour rides.

[KidWok]

Originally Posted by Waldo

RS91 -- my office bike for lunch hour rides.

If that is your office bike, what the heck is your home bike?! Love the color...nice to see a non-red RS.

Tai

[Waldo]

Originally Posted by KidWok

If that is your office bike, what the heck is your home bike?! Love the color...nice to see a non-red RS.

Tai

There's another blue RS in the garage -- 1987.

[brandon2]

My go-to bike for the maximum in comfort and the gratification you get from riding a classic, non-custom steel frame bicycle. Performance-wise, my Trek 2.3 eclipses it, with its lighter aluminum frame and lower front hearing (52/36 crank). Still, I hope to keep the Bridgestone to the end of my riding days.

[mktng]

My 90's Marinoni.

Had Tim To of Granville Bicycles add some fender mounts and other misc bits.

Its my trustee daily bike.



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[brandon2]

Originally Posted by old & ugly

'03 Pinarello Opera Ultegra
'92 Pinarello Montello Campy getting painted right now
'85/86 Guerciotti SLX Gipiemme panto'd Los Angeles 1984
'80's Davidson Shimano 600
'80's Cinelli Campy
'83 Eddy Merckx Pro 'All' Mavic
'82 Redcay SS Campy
'74 Witcomb SS Campy
'73 DeRosa Campy
Un-ID's Mexican made Carabela or Acer Fixed Campy
Un-ID'd Faggin under construction w/ flat bars and poss. 7 speed R/D
Un-ID'd Rolls waiting for inspiration

hahahahahaha

[Jmaxwel8]

Kona Wheelhouse
Peugeot PX10
Serotta Colorado II pink to orange fade (just bought and is being derived next Monday)

[Waldo]

Originally Posted by Waldo

There's another blue RS in the garage -- 1987.

This one

[Waldo]

My son's hot pink Spesh and my black cherry Rock Lobster after a two-man team time trial ;-)
(both in steel)

[Dougb]

So many beautiful bikes in this thread. Here’s my daily rider: a Wabi Special. 18.5 lbs of glorious lugged Reynolds 725 steel!

[froze]

I see a lot of classic bikes here, or modern interpretation of the classic era, but can't understand the conversion to threadless on either. I have a threadless modern bike but I have to say something, and obviously this is just my worthless opinion, but I really don't like the look of the threadless design, the threaded design was just very graceful looking, threadless looks chunky and clunky.

[Shoeman]

Originally Posted by Dougb

So many beautiful bikes in this thread. Here’s my daily rider: a Wabi Special. 18.5 lbs of glorious lugged Reynolds 725 steel!

The best looking Wabi I've seen ever!!!!!!

[Pearsom]

Originally Posted by froze

I see a lot of classic bikes here, or modern interpretation of the classic era, but can't understand the conversion to threadless on either. I have a threadless modern bike but I have to say something, and obviously this is just my worthless opinion, but I really don't like the look of the threadless design, the threaded design was just very graceful looking, threadless looks chunky and clunky.

From an aesthetic standpoint I agree that a quill stem looks "right" and often is a cleaner design for many of the older steel frames

From a comfort standpoint I prefer the larger diameter 31.8 handlebars I can use with threadless. I'm 6'5" and my hands just feel better on these larger diameter bars

So ... comfort. That's my reason

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by froze

I see a lot of classic bikes here, or modern interpretation of the classic era, but can't understand the conversion to threadless on either. I have a threadless modern bike but I have to say something, and obviously this is just my worthless opinion, but I really don't like the look of the threadless design, the threaded design was just very graceful looking, threadless looks chunky and clunky.

26.0 bars are extremely uncomfortable for those of us with big hands and don't always play nice with ergos/brifters.

I'm all for quills and 1" head-tubes in the right application, just have never had the gumption to throw out for a custom stem that would allow me to run a 31.8 bar.

EDIT :: what Pearsom said.

[andeww]

im waiting on a 31.8 quill for the RS build^ hope i made the right decision! however not custom or baller