Show me your purple bikes.

[osbk67]

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Purple extract.

[CO_Hoya]

I bought and then sold this bike years ago.

I'm color-blind, so it looks blue to me. My wife explained it was (is) a purple bike. Would have kept it if I could have made it fit.





White-balance on these pics is a bit off, so not sure if the color representation is good. Kinda lost on me either way.

[Vonruden]

The only bike I had regret selling, I recently bought back the frame and fork. 3Rensho - All the cool parts are gone, but I have some ideas.

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by Vonruden

The only bike I had regret selling, I recently bought back the frame and fork. 3Rensho - All the cool parts are gone, but I have some ideas.

oh boy!

[gbcoupe]

Sweet 3Rensho and photo!

[Bici-Sonora]

Originally Posted by Vonruden

The only bike I had regret selling, I recently bought back the frame and fork. 3Rensho - All the cool parts are gone, but I have some ideas.

I always wanted a 3Rensho. I got to work on a couple back in the 90s


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[charliedid]

Some great looking bike sin this tread.

I too have a purple bike.

[joosttx]

purple mono handlebar/stem combo is next level. But in combination with matching purple riding gloves is next next level.

[David Benson]

Lockdown project

[soupless]

Ritchey is fabulous--those stems do it every time--as is the downtube signature on C O Hoya's G. Messina.

[fellowpicker]

WOW tell us more about the Ritchey Lockdown Project. That is a beautiful bike.

[greengage]

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[greengage]

And also


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[David Benson]

Originally Posted by fellowpicker

WOW tell us more about the Ritchey Lockdown Project. That is a beautiful bike.

Thanks!
The frame had been on eBay intermittently for a while but unrealistically priced, so it had fallen off my radar until my virtual pal Dubrat lucked into a similar frame via a Facebook group. Temporarily insane with envy I went back to eBay to find that the purple frame had dropped in price. I made a couple of offers and it was mine.

On arrival in New Zealand I got a rattlecan of colour matched paint for the Salsa stem and Silca Impero, as well as most of the top tube which had more rust spiders than I can live with.

I’ve walked a line between rideable functionality with Suntour Superbe deraillers, Silver shifters and Modolo Professional brakes; and an irrational weight weenie impulse that made me buy a Phil titanium bottom bracket, ti axles for the Superbe pedals and a handful of ti and aluminium bolts and washers. The purple anodised USE stem expander bolt has been in my inventory, unused, since the early 90s.

It rides like a racing bike should, super stable in a straight line, but turning in hard in response to countersteering.

Rather than posting more photos here, you can find them all on my Flickr
https://flickr.com/photos/12193792@N...57713947824726

[chiasticon]