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    #32
    Idleater
    Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Large bottle small glass wrote: »
    I have a notion of doing L'erocia sometime, and I would need something like the Raleigh to keep within the rules.

    How low a gear can you get on those bikes using parts of same vintage?

    I run 42*23 i think.
    You can get 25 or 27 I'd say. And easily a 39 up front.

    The folks on 1x 58*14 or something zigzagging up the hills just laugh.


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    #33
    Large bottle small glass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Large bottle small glass


    Idleater wrote: »
    I run 42*23 i think.
    You can get 25 or 27 I'd say. And easily a 39 up front.

    The folks on 1x 58*14 or something zigzagging up the hills just laugh.

    Yeah I thought I was a great lad after riding the Paris Roubaix sportive until a few hardy old timers rolled in on vintage fixed bike and woollen gear


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    #34
    8valve
    Registered Users Posts: 976 ✭✭✭8valve


    Large bottle small glass wrote: »
    I have a notion of doing L'erocia sometime, and I would need something like the Raleigh to keep within the rules.

    How low a gear can you get on those bikes using parts of same vintage?


    Most old school rear mechs will cope with a 28 tooth sprocket.


    Old shimano chainsets can usually take a 39 tooth chainring and they're readily got, if you don't want to run a 42 tooth inner ring.


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    #35
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    ratracer wrote: »
    Class job, fair play to you!

    As an U12 racer in the late 80’s that Road Ace was pure bike porn!!


    I owned one in 1984. Bought in Tony Kealys Walkinstown for £395. It was in the family and extended family for years. Last I heard it was in a shed on the Dublin/Meath border with a friend of a family member. I really must go out and look for it or at it after Covid.


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    #36
    8valve
    Registered Users Posts: 976 ✭✭✭8valve


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    I owned one in 1984. Bought in Tony Kealys Walkinstown for £395. It was in the family and extended family for years. Last I heard it was in a shed on the Dublin/Meath border with a friend of a family member. I really must go out and look for it or at it after Covid.


    Retrieve it.
    Clean it.
    Service it.
    Cycle it.
    Smile smugly at your own awesomeness for having such a cool vintage machine.


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    #37
    Quigs Snr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,156 ✭✭✭Quigs Snr


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    were people taller in the 70s and 80s? the vast majority of the bikes you see from that period look like they're 56cm or bigger.

    My modern bikes include a 49cm Sworks Roubaix, a 50cm Pinarello F8, a 51cm Cervelo S5... so its always weird when I am in my parents Garage and see the Raleigh Pro Race (reynolds 501) that i used to ride to school and even a race or two in my first year of college... it works out as being the same as a modern 56cm if not a little bigger. I think our projections for just how much I would "grow into it" were off by a solid 6 inches or more.

    Still.. back in the day we didnt have bike fitters and the common wisdom was that if you could do a fosbury flop high jump over the cross bar you needed to go a size up.


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    #38
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,572 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i see there's a company in rathmines now selling vintage italian frames. some nice ones there too.

    https://mastroclassics.com/collections/frontpage

    there's one there asking €25k, if anyone is feeling flush.


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    #39
    Peter T
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    25k ? Perfect, strap it to a turbo trainer in the shed


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    #40
    Finnrocco
    Registered Users Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Finnrocco


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i see there's a company in rathmines now selling vintage italian frames. some nice ones there too.

    https://mastroclassics.com/collections/frontpage

    there's one there asking €25k, if anyone is feeling flush.

    I want this one!


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    #41
    Finnrocco
    Registered Users Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Finnrocco


    Actually I would prefer this one!

    Boschetti made some crazy bikes.


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    #42
    8valve
    Registered Users Posts: 976 ✭✭✭8valve


    looks like he found an old shed in Italy full of Boschettis!


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    #43
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    8valve wrote: »
    Retrieve it.
    Clean it.
    Service it.
    Cycle it.
    Smile smugly at your own awesomeness for having such a cool vintage machine.

    I already have an Olmo, a Carlton and a Rossin.

    However unlike your lovely examples they are all a mixture of modern and old but fantastic old frames for comfort and durability..I don't think I would have the patience or knowledge to restore fully like you do.
    But I am happy to admire your work!


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    #44
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,994 ✭✭✭cletus


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    I already have an Olmo, a Carlton and a Rossin.

    However unlike your lovely examples they are all a mixture of modern and old but fantastic old frames for comfort and durability..I don't think I would have the patience or knowledge to restore fully like you do.
    But I am happy to admire your work!


    Sure it's probably no use to you at all. I suppose I can take it off your hands, I won't even charge you...


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    #45
    8valve
    Registered Users Posts: 976 ✭✭✭8valve


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    I already have an Olmo, a Carlton and a Rossin.

    However unlike your lovely examples they are all a mixture of modern and old but fantastic old frames for comfort and durability..I don't think I would have the patience or knowledge to restore fully like you do.
    But I am happy to admire your work!


    Go for it.


    Feel free to ask if you need any tips/advice.


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