Nishiki NFS Alpha Tri-Bike designed by Richard Cunningham
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| Nishiki NFS Alpha triathlon/time trial bike designed by Richard Cunningham. Oversize lightweight double-buted steel tubing, Shimano 600/Ultegra groupset, 650 wheels (smaller greater acceleration), and the various features which make a tri bike a tri bike. This is a great bike for someone who want to compete in triathlons but doesn't want to drop $3,000+ for a new tri bike or anyone who wants to ride a cool bike. I also have a aero bar set up that I can throw in for $10. 57cm seat tube/26" wheels; good for riders around 5'10. $325 |
1992 Bridgestone CB-1, City Bike
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| Bridgestone CB-1, a smartly designed city bike |
It is perhaps testimony to the power of the internet (as if anyone needed proof) and to the authority of the late and very great Sheldon Brown that with one sentence: "There was nothing wrong with them, but nothing special, either." The Bridgestone CB–City Bike–series has been condemmed as somehow mediocre.
During the height of the mountain bike craze, companies started to realize that many if not most of these "mountain" bikes were never seeing dirt and were in fact being used on pavement (SUV and Pickup truck owners can relate). So companies decided to put out a few "city bikes" which were usually little more than a lowish end mountain bike with different paint, decals, and slick tires.
This is a pity. The reason mountain bike became popular for urban use is that they make great sense. The stout frame and ample braze-ons for rack and fenders make the bike ideal for hauling stuff and foul weather. But the real advantage is the smaller 26" wheels. Smaller wheels are stronger (because of shorter spokes, wider tires, and stronger rims), yet the speed penalty is not as bad as you might expect because mountain wheels can cruise over rough roads, accelerate faster, and because bike tires have a round profile (as opposed to a car tire which is flat and wide).
So, about the CB-1. The mid-'80s mountain bikes were essentially touring bikes (touring frames, triple touring cranks, touring cantilever brakes) with BMX handlebars, and smaller wheels from the old Schwinn Excelsiors. Bridgestone revolutionized the frame design to make them more suitable for climbing and more maneuverable. The XO series was a hybrid made with road tubing– essentially a sporty touring bike with wider tire capacity and more upright handlebars. So, about the CB-1 (this time for real). The CB-1 is essentially a throwback to the older mountain bikes. (To this day Bridgestone's Grant Petersen rates the the mid-'80s mountain bike as his ideal urban commuter bike.)
In an interview I asked Grant Petersen of Rivendell/Bridgestone:
What is your all time favorite city bike?
". . . if you’re asking my own preference, or what I think makes the most functional sense, the most practical sense, I’ll stick out my neck and nominate an all-steel early to late ’80s mountain bike fitted up with a higher and maybe a swept-back handlebar, fenders, rack, and basket. Platform pedals, kickstand, bell, rear view mirror, and some kind of light."
Apart from the 26" wheels (with stainless spokes and a somewhat theft-deterrent non-quick release nut) the CB-1 has up-right bars (helpful to see over traffic) and a full CrMo frame & fork (which was pretty uncommon on '80s road bikes.)
This one is pretty medium in size. I'll probably change the seat and post from what is pictured. $175
Surly/Velocity Deep V Fixie Wheelset + Extras (Built by Percy)
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| Velocity Deep V/Surly Track wheelset. Lightly used. Plus Tru-Temper Straight bar + Track Saddle. $125 for all (Wheels alone $100) |
Cannondale Saeco CAAD 4
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| Large/XL 60cm frame in great condition. $125 |
Bridgestone Kabuki HT
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| Bridgestone Kabuki HT, CrMo frame, Suntour components, very clean, wide road tires. A nice commuter bike. 58cm SOLD |
Ross Hi Tech
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| Ross Mountain Bike. A BEAST (it probably weighs close to 40lbs) size large, nice tires, bull moose bars (good for carrying a U-lock), Pletcher rack, great paint, new grips. This is the kind of that you might ride into town for supplies from your woodland camp. Classic early mountain c.1980, roughly equivalent to a Pontiac Bonneville of the same era. Size is large. $165 SOLD |
Schwinn Sierra
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| Schwinn Sierra c.1988. Awesome vintage mountain bike with some good upgrades (V-brakes, pedals, Trek System 2 saddle–not pictured). The Sierra was a high-end model in Schwinn's MTB line. This is a classic '80s mountain bike: adapted touring frame, 26" wheels, BMX style bars what Grant Petersen cites as his favorite style of commuting bike. The color is dark gray but with a peal finish. The stem is copper annodized with two clamp bolts. Special Schwinn Sierra headbadge. Size large about 21" $250 SOLD |
Brooks Titanium Saddle and Ideale Saddle
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| Brooks B17 Titanium railed saddle. These retail for over $300. Has about 150 miles. Large copper rivets, wide and long (not like the Swift). $125 SOLD. The Ideale is a nice saddle but the rails are narrow, so you'd need a seatpost clamp that can fir it. $30 |
3ttt Track Bars and Specialized
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| 3ttt track pista bars and Specialized stem, in great shape. $30 |
Origin8 Pro Fit Compact Handlebars
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| Origin8 Pro Fit Compact Handlebars, like new. 26.0 clamp. $30 |
Cinelli Spinaci
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| Cinelli Spinaci shorty aero bars. These are the drilled-out version. $60 |
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| Tri-Bars w/hardware. $25 SOLD |
Novarra Randonee
Novarra Randonee 56cm double butted Tange Steel touring/randoneur/gravel grinder. Currently set up with big fat knobby tires. Great bike for commuting, light trails, or a jaunt up to Baffin Island Canada. $265 SOLD
Columbia Sports
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| 1977 Columbia. Great paint, new tires, new chain. $130 SOLD |
Univega Alpina Pro
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| Nice old Univega Alpina. Large 20"frame. $25 |
Trek Verve
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Trek Verve Frame. 16" Alpha Aluminum $25
Physio Fit
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Free Spirit Physio Fit. Classic mountain cruiser from the '80s. Great rubber (Michelin Gravel), Pletscher rack, and a huuuge saddle. $125
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The Bicycles below have been SOLD and are for reference.
Trek 830
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| Trek 830 commuter bike (slick tires). A great bike to bang around town, hit dirt roads, or adapt for touring. $150 Small frame. SOLD |
Shogun 600
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| Shogun 600. Very nice double butted frame with forged drop outs w/adjuster bolts. 53cm. Shimano 105 "arrow" group. $175 SOLD |
Centurion Elite RS
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| XL Centurion Elite RS. Suntour Cyclone, annodized brake levers-calipers-rims. Great paint. $280 SOLD |
Trek 520 Cirrus
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| Trek 520 Cirrus sport tour bike, 57cm-cc, Rynolds 531, 600/Ultegra headset, levers, and calipers. Shimano 600 hubs on Mavic MA-40 (touring) rims with Panaracer tires. Silver-brazed cut out lugs. This is more of a sport-tour bike than other 520s which are more straight touring. It is also one of the nicest. $375 SOLD |
Peugeot Urban Express
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| Peugeot Urban Express |
Very practical bike for commuting, hauling groceries & children, and noodling around town. Comfortable set up, thumb shifters. Great overall condition. Tires hold air but need to be replaced sooner rather than later. $140 SOLD
Univega Alpina
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| Univega Alpina Hybrid Conversion, Size Medium $160 SOLD |
Univega Nouvo Sport
A very large classic sport-tour road bike of well above average quality. The frame is of lightweight weight triple butted cro-mo steel, the drop outs are forged and have the adjuster bolts which was indicative of quality bicycles of the time (or any time fro that matter).
Components are quality mix of Suntour and Japanese makes (including the selt-triming shifters). Saddle, paint, and rubber are all excellent.
This is a BIG bike about 64cm. If you are 6'1" and very lanky it might fit you but 6'3"-6'4" is more in the range.SOLD
Lotus Challenger
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| Lotus with S/M 53cm CrMo Frame, Trek Rack, & Cross Levers $185 SOLD |
Centurion Dave Scott Ironman (frame only)
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| Centurion Dave Scott Ironman. 58cm Tange 1 tubuing. Whether you like the paint or not what is under the paint is pretty special. $100 for the frame, fork, and headset SOLD. Other components (3ttt track bars, Surly/Velocity fixie wheelset) pictured for reference. |
Schwinn Sierra
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| Schwinn Sierra c.1988. Awesome vintage mountain bike with some good upgrades (V-brakes, pedals, Trek System 2 saddle–not pictured). The Sierra was a high-end model in Schwinn's MTB line. This is a classic '80s mountain bike: adapted touring frame, 26" wheels, BMX style bars what Grant Petersen cites as his favorite style of commuting bike. The color is dark gray but with a peal finish. The stem is copper annodized with two clamp bolts. Special Schwinn Sierra headbadge. Size large about 21" $250 SOLD |
Novarra Randonee
Novarra Randonee 56cm double butted Tange Steel touring/randoneur/gravel grinder. Currently set up with big fat knobby tires. Great bike for commuting, light trails, or a jaunt up to Baffin Island Canada. $265 SOLD
Trek 830
Shogun 600
Centurion Elite RS
Trek 520 Cirrus
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| Trek 520 Cirrus sport tour bike, 57cm-cc, Rynolds 531, 600/Ultegra headset, levers, and calipers. Shimano 600 hubs on Mavic MA-40 (touring) rims with Panaracer tires. Silver-brazed cut out lugs. This is more of a sport-tour bike than other 520s which are more straight touring. It is also one of the nicest. $375 SOLD |
Peugeot Urban Express
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| Peugeot Urban Express |
Very practical bike for commuting, hauling groceries & children, and noodling around town. Comfortable set up, thumb shifters. Great overall condition. Tires hold air but need to be replaced sooner rather than later. $140 SOLD
Univega Alpina
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| Univega Alpina Hybrid Conversion, Size Medium $160 SOLD |
Univega Nouvo Sport
A very large classic sport-tour road bike of well above average quality. The frame is of lightweight weight triple butted cro-mo steel, the drop outs are forged and have the adjuster bolts which was indicative of quality bicycles of the time (or any time fro that matter).
Components are quality mix of Suntour and Japanese makes (including the selt-triming shifters). Saddle, paint, and rubber are all excellent.
This is a BIG bike about 64cm. If you are 6'1" and very lanky it might fit you but 6'3"-6'4" is more in the range.SOLD
Mystery Bike Handmade in Nebraska c. 1978
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| Campy derailleurs and shifters (with original rubber), TA crankset, Mavic rims, gold annondized Mafac Competition brake set on a frame with drilled out lugs, no braze ons, and a lugged brake bridge indicate that this is was once a very special bike. Now featuring a stealth paint job and Italian handlebar set up. $300 SOLD |
Dawes Sheila
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| Dawes Sheila. 46cm Sport tour bike with brifters and interrupter levers. BikesDirect.com sells them for $299+shipping, tax, and assembly. This is like new. $200 SOLD |
Free Spirit Sheffield
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| Free Spirit Sheffield 3-Speed Coaster Brake. A very nice lugged frame with a classic Sturmey-Archer 3-spd coaster-brake (foot brake) hub. Good tires, rack, front hand brake. $140 SOLD |
Univega Gran Rally
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| Univega Gran Rally 58cm entry level race bike. Full 600 group. Equivalent of a Miyata 912, or a Bridgestone RB-2. $275 SOLD |
GT Traffic
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GT Traffic. Single-speed commuter bike. Fat tires, fat bike. Size large. $160 SOLD
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Trek 700 Hybrid
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Trek 700 hybrid (or add drop bars and make it a touring/gravel bike). This is one of Trek most popular models–EVER! New tires. Size large. $185 SOLD
Trek 700 Step-Thru Hybrid
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Touring, commuting, hauling kids & groceries. Medium. New back tire! $165 SOLD
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Motobecane Nomad
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Motobecane Nomad. Solid workhorse bike. C.58cm $160 SOLD
A superior bicycle in every way. Large frame, great condition, rides like a dream, a road bike of this quality would be almost twice as much. $225 SOLD
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Trek 600
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| 1985 Trek 600 frame and extras (as photographed). 65cm of 531 silver-brazed goodness. $100 SOLD |
Fuji Tiarra
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| Fuji Tiara. 56cm triple-butted channeled Ishiwata Feather tubing. A very nice Fuji from the late '80s when most of their production had moved to Taiwan. (Never heard of the Tiarra? Evidently they didn't make many of them.) $275 SOLD |
TREK 520
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| Trek 520, 53cm, Reynolds tubing. Classic touring bike. $285 SOLD |
LL Bean Acadia Cruiser
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L.L. Bean Acadia Hybrid. Looks a lot like the Specialized Crossroads of the same era. Size is M/L. CrMo $160 SOLD
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Great 26" wheel hybrid, large 19" frame. $175 SOLD
Puch Mixte
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| Puch Mixte Made of Mangoly Steel (Similar to CrMo) $160 - SOLD |
Panasonic City Bike
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| Panasonic City Bike Size Large: Thumb Shifter, Slick Tires, Bolt-On Wheels for Security. $160 SOLD |
Bridgestone Mile 112
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| 1986 Bridgestone Mile 112 Triathlon Bike |
Beautiful and hard to find Bridgestone triple-butted frame with an upgraded parts mix. Dura-Ace: Crank, shifters, front derailleur, and BB. Ultegra rear derailleur. 105 hubs (7-speed, a really nice wheelset), 105 levers. RX 100 dual pivot calipers. Bridgestone NJS (Keirin track saddle). Fresh build. 57 c-c $425 SOLD
CCM Mixte
Stylish, Canadian-built mixte in very nice condition. $175
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L.L. Bean Arcadia Cruiser Hybrid
A good solid step through hybrid. Great for commuting, carrying children/groceries, riding on dirt or rough roads, and the greenway. Size is sorta medium-large. $125
SOLD
Nylon Road/NJS/BMX Saddles
Vintage Kashimax NJS, like new-$60. Other nylon saddles $10 SOLD
Schwinn Caliente
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Converted 5-speed Schwinn
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This is pretty much a Schwinn Varsity converted into more of an urban commuter/cruiser. No front deraileur so it is a 5-speed, riser bars, mountain levers; someone put some love into this bike. Good tires. Large frame. Heavy. $100 SOLD
Fuji Special Racer
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| Fuji Special Racer with forged Nitto I-beam stem |
Double butted Fuji frame, about 53cm. Suntour shifters, self-weighted pedals, rat-trap rack, I-beam stem (just sold one on ebay for $35), Dia-Compe, etc. $160 SOLD
Trek 800
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| Trek 800 1996 (or thereabouts) |
A basic Trek off road bike good for trails and commuting. The frame is very small, good for someone graduating from a 24" wheel bike. $130 SOLD
1995 Fuji Touring Series
A monster. XL frame cromoly frame and fork. Bike came equiped with RSX components including brifters but we upgraded the cockpit to a more traditional set up of 105 aero levers and Ultegra bar-end shifters. Has all the characteristic of a heavy duty full ("loaded") touring bike including extra spoke holder on the chain stay, trip chainring, super wide 700x38 tires, rack, canti brakes, fork bosses for rack, and so on. This is a heavy duty bike, the kind of thing to take you on that trans Africa trip or up to Baffin Island. Great for commuting, cyclocross, dirt, or pretty much anything. $420 SOLD
Royal Dutch Bike
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| Royal Dutch Bike |
This Royal is not quite ready but I like the looks so I threw it on. Prolly about $100 once it is tuned up.
Raleigh Space Frame, Small 3-Speed
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| Raleigh Space Frame, Small 3-Speed., $150 |
Small, 24" wheel bike, "Space Frame" model. Good for folks 4'9"-5'2, approximately. $150 SOLD
Schwinn Tempo
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| Beautiful Schwinn Tempo with new bar tape and platform pedals. Small size (c. 51cm) the Tempo was an entry-leval race model. That means the thing is a whip. $285 SOLD |
Takara Road Bike
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| Takara road bike with a forged stem and bar-end shifters. $160 SOLD |
Vintage Trek
Early Trek (possibly 1980) made of Ishiwata 022 tubing, small 53cm frame. Mix of Suntour and newer components, new tires. $250 SOLD
In the early '80s, while the European companies were putting out consumer-level klunkers and the Japanese had not quite figured out the American consumer market, a small company in Waterloo Wisconsin was producing some of the finest steel road and sport tour bikes ever built. That company was Trek, who has since grown to a dominance in the bicycle market.
There is not one bicycle that can be wholly accountable for Trek's success, and a lot of the credit should go to the Lance Armstrong Tour bikes, many great mountain bikes, and even the very popular hybrids beginning with the 700 series of the '90s. But none of this would not have happened had not Trek produced superior road bikes in the early '80s. What makes these bikes special? Treks were built of superior steel like Reynolds 531, Ishiwata 022, and Colombus but so were other bikes at the time. Treks were one of the few bikes to be constructed with silver solder. Silver solder is more expensive and more difficult to work with; but it allows the builder to heat the tube less, thus preserving more strength in the tubing, which allows the frame to be built of thinner, stronger, lighter steel tubes.
1994 Univega Alpina 5.3
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| 1994 Univega Alpina 5.3 Mountain Bike, Medium, $175 SOLD |
Not a mystique mountain bike but a durn good one. Excellent ovalized tubing (see label below), solid STX gruppo, I-beam stem. Size is medium. Price back in 1994 $539
http://www.bikepedia.com/quickbike/BikeSpecs.aspx?Year=1994&Brand=Univega&Model=Alpina+5.3&Type=bike#.UD4TZhwui4A
Schwinn Le Tour 12.2–"Poor-Man's Paramount"
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| Schwinn Le Tour 12.2 Full Chrome, Large 60cm CrMo Frame. $250 SOLD |
Bianchi Sport SX–"Pianchi"
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| Large Tange/Bianchi Superset CrMo Frame, Mixed Components, Dura-Ace Front Hub $275 SOLD |
Univega Townie
A very practical bike in great condition. Has everything you need to year round commuting: fenders, chain guard, internal Sturmey Archer 3-speed. The mattress saddle is heavy but comfortable (it can be swapped out). Size is medium. $175 ($160 without the basket). SOLD
Quantum AD 200
Nice cromoly off road hybrid type bike. Hybrid tires, medium sized, great shape. Use for touring, commuting, and dirt. $150 SOLD
Giant Kronos Triplet
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| Triple butted CrMo w/CrMo fork, Exage 400, entry-level race bike. C.54cm c-c. Late '80s/early '90s. $225 SOLD |
Italian Mystery Frame
A beautiful lugged Italian-made classic road frame (I do not feel disingenuous suggesting that it could be a de Rosa or equivalent). Size is 54, has Campy drop outs and a smooth Campy BB. $185 SOLD
Specialized Crossroads
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| Specialized Crossroads hybrid bike |
Very nice handmade medium sized 18" hybrid, great for commuting, dirt roads, or even touring. Excellent condition, very clean. SOLD
Shimano 600/Ultegra Group
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Tri-Bars Setup
Bars, extesions, brake levers, and shift levers, all you need for a cheap conversion. $75 (note: the shifters will be Suntour Accu Shift, not the Shimano in the photo).
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Titanium Colnago. 55cm. Built up with Shimano 600/Ultegra brakes, brifters, rear derailleur, and front hub. Campy Record ten speed crank and front derailleur. San Marco saddle. $900
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Stylish, Canadian-built mixte in very nice condition. $175 SOLD
A good solid step through hybrid. Great for commuting, carrying children/groceries, riding on dirt or rough roads, and the greenway. Size is sorta medium-large. $125 SOLD
Vintage Kashimax NJS, like new-$60. Other nylon saddles $10 SOLD
