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Recommend me a used full-steel road-racer to find..
I think I still have a bit of time before my number gets called by Mr. Sadoff and I have to make a decision on how I want my steel roadie* frame/fork done up...so I'm thinking about hunting a good used model to get a feel for things I may want the same/different in the custom.
This thread has some good ideas. And this Vetta is my current design inspiration. Traditional geometry, 23/25c tires, steel fork, level TT, 1" steerer, and custom stem. So, any recommendations for models and years of steel rigs to hunt down that are decently affordable in the current market? Steelman, Tesch, Kelly, certain Serotta models...what else??? Bonus points if you have one in my size and want to sell it cheap. Double bonus points if you have one in my size and want to loan it out to a good home for a while . . . . * still a chance I'll instead opt for a cantilever cross rig, 29er all-mountain hardtail, or something else fun like that...but the RL team-tig has sentimental pulls for me, so it's probably going to be one of those...
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Just out of curiosity, you have a Kirk Disc cross....why are you considering a cantilever cross bike?
I was hunting for a disc cross bike and "settled" for a custom steel Davidson with cantilevers. stripped down for a rebuild, should be completed this weekend. |
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My Serotta CRL and Merckx MXL might be a good start. If you lived local I’d be glad to let you ride both, since you dont, I am glad to answer questions. Both are your size. I’d sell the Merckx, not the CRL
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I have both an original MXL fork and a Winter built threadless fork for the Merckx, do you plan to run threadless or quill set up?
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We will do no such thing! You have already ridden one of everything.
monostay mondonico, there is a nice one on eBay https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F222922599522
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Old school cool for variety - not as a replacement..
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i humbly submit three items for consideration, though at least two will be difficult to find on the used market.
1) Steel Spectrum. There is a short but distinguished list, but i would venture to say that no one knows bicycle geometry better than TK. 2) Ritchey Road Logic. Sweet bicycles. 3) Serotta CSI. Often described as one of the finest steel semi-production bikes ever made. There you have my suggestions, between Ben, Tom and Tom: there is a lot of expertise in putting together a bicycle there.
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A stock 62cm CSi would be hard to beat although a C III or Couer d' Arcier (was that the correct name for the steel model with carbon seat stays?) would all ride much the same.
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Seems like this one would be pretty hard to beat on a dollars per smiles basis: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...hlight=ritchey
And it seems like quite a classic race-oriented geometry that would provide a good comparison test... Would prefer threadless, but I think I still have an adapter sitting around.
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That Ritchey above is pretty sweet.....but if I had $1k and wanted form/style WITH my function, I'd go with some sweet tutti-frutti goodness. Killer price for this set-up for $1k.....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Eddy-Merckx...53.m1438.l2649 |
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