Older lugged canti touring frames

[shankldu]

Who made some of the older lugged steel frames , besides Miyata Trek etc some thing a bit more exotic . Lookin to set up a gravel ish rig .

[charliedid]

Fuji
Nishiki
Panasonic
Claud Butler
Dawes

Off the top of me head

[mhespenheide]

Try here: https://www.bikeforums.net/search.php?searchid=11396981

[Frankwurst]

Bridgestone RB-T. Maybe not exotic but hard to come by.

[JAGI410]

Originally Posted by Frankwurst

Bridgestone RB-T. Maybe not exotic but hard to come by.

That might get a little more street cred than an exotic...

[gbcoupe]

If you can find one, a Lotus Eclair would be hard to beat.

[El Chaba]

Meral...

[bikinchris]

Specialized Sequoia. I happened to see one in a wild a few months ago. It still had the generator and fenders and racks from new.

[pinkshogun]

older canti frames had closer spaced front canti bosses and sometimes dont play well with modern canti brakes, v brakes even worse. i have/had 3 Nishiki side pull brakes bikes...Ultra Tour 18, Royale, and Gran Tour 15. All could fit a 700x38ish tire and Tektro long reach 559 or Paul Racer brake calipers

[smontanaro]

Originally Posted by mhespenheide

Try here: https://www.bikeforums.net/search.php?searchid=11396981

That didn't work for me. There is a recent thread on C&V cyclocross bikes which might give you some ideas.

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...oss-bikes.html

[Pastashop]

Originally Posted by El Chaba

Meral...

Love that Meral! Very nice brazeon treatment — extremely functional, yet unobtrusive.

[EB]

If you don’t mind TIG over lugs, check out the Bianchi Volpe. Can be had for a song these days too. Bit of a tank, mind you. This was the first “proper” bike I ever owned and it got me through college.

Sheldon Brown’s website has a nice blurb about them: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/volpe.html

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by Eli Bingham

If you don’t mind TIG over lugs, check out the Bianchi Volpe. Can be had for a song these days too. Bit of a tank, mind you. This was the first “proper” bike I ever owned and it got me through college.

Sheldon Brown’s website has a nice blurb about them: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/volpe.html

I was thinking 1970's bikes and thought about the Volpe. Early 80's for the first one?

I had a late 90's one for a while and it was a weird bike.

[EB]

Originally Posted by charliedid

I was thinking 1970's bikes and thought about the Volpe. Early 80's for the first one?

I had a late 90's one for a while and it was a weird bike.

The one I had was definitely from the 80s, even though I rode it in the 90s. Don’t really know how they changed over the years - that one rode like a touring bike. I bought it for $200 from a bike messenger in Berkeley who had it setup with terrible knobby red cross tires and a triple crank with bar ends. The canti brakes must have worked fine because they got me down Euclid Ave alive every day.

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by Eli Bingham

The one I had was definitely from the 80s, even though I rode it in the 90s. Don’t really know how they changed over the years - that one rode like a touring bike. I bought it for $200 from a bike messenger in Berkeley who had it setup with terrible knobby red cross tires and a triple crank with bar ends. The canti brakes must have worked fine because they got me down Euclid Ave alive every day.

yeah I recall those.

Mine was late circa 2000 in the vein of an all-rounder. Didn't do anything well IMO