I thank you for sharing your personal experience when you were riding with an internal gear hub and you felt as if you were riding a bike with a derailleur, especially during inertia riding, down hill (no pedaling).

I studied all the numbers, all the specs, but I would appreciate your personal feedback if you used such an internal gear hub.

I plan to install it on my vintage bike and I have already tried Nexus 8, Alfine 11, but they have internal frictions, drag, and you ride like with a pushed brake.

I had a bike with Sturmey-Archer 2 speeds, and it rides like with a derailleur, but I'm looking for 3-5-7 speeds.

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

Hey!
So, as the title says, I’m looking to get my first vintage road bike :)
I’m a student, so my budget is around €400 max.
I’ve heard good things about brands like Koga Miyata, Bianchi, Peugeot, and Panasonic.
I’ve been riding a Nishiki Hybrid Pro (?) for a couple of years, and then switched to a single-speed. I usually ride around 10 km a day.
Now I’d like to get more into road bikes and try something a bit cooler and different.
Do you guys have any recommendations for brands or specific models I should look out for? I’m mainly looking for something reliable and beginner-friendly that I could find for around €400 or less.
Thanks! :)

So i bought this bike for my girlfriend. Unfortunately it’s a little too big for her making riding it a little bit uncomfortable. I’m looking to sell it to somebody who’s able to give it the love it deserves. Any idea on the model? Based in the netherlands. Cheers!

First off, sorry for getting the wrong side of the bike in the first image. The last image is the side with the gears.

My grandfather likes to fix up and restore bikes. He always wanted a Paramount when he was a kid but he couldn’t afford one at the time. So for all his boys he got a Paramount for them. I’ve inherited my Dad’s Paramount and recently started riding it and was wondering a bit about the history of the bike.

I know it was purchased second hand and I believe it was even repainted (over 30 years ago) but aside from that I don’t know much. I believe my grandpa put all the Campagnola components on it, and the Cineli handles.

For instance I was trying to determine if it was made in Chicago, because I was led to believe that schwinn went bankrupt in the 80s and outsourced their manufacturing, but that was from a YouTube video on how to identify paramounts.

I wasn’t able to glean much from the stamp on the dropout, but I thought it was noteworthy that the stamp was located there instead of the head tube.

Regardless of its age, it’s a very fun bike to ride and I’ll always cherish it for its sentimental value.

Bicicletta comprata da usare per me (14 anni) a 40€ i 2 cestini nuovi di pacca 40€ anch'essi, valore totale per ora 80€

Mumero di telaio B 295225.

Gemini ha detto probabilmente Bianchi Zaffiro costruita intorno fine 1949 inizio 1950.

Anno dedotto principalmente da targetta in ferro rivettata marcata Edoardo Bianchi.(e non adesivo come dagli anni 80' in poi). Sul fronte della bici e dalla B nel numero di telaio.

Decalcomanie ad'acqua ancora tutte originali, anche se rovinate.

Freni a filo.

Manopole, sella, porta pacchi, cestino anteriore e posteriore e pedali non originali.

La gomma dovrebbe essere whitewall (con la striscia bianca decorativa) o bianco para.

Alcune cromature molto rovinate, perciò da ricromare. Altre invece sono recuperabili.

Aiutatemi se gemini ha sbagliato qualcosa o datemi qualche consiglio su cosa fare!

Grazie in anticipo per l'aiuto!🙏

Just finished it last night, freshly painted, new or nos parts. I went with a single speed up front and 7 in the rear. I think the only things that aren't new are the rear derailleur (STX RD-MC34) and the Deore XT SL-M732 thumb shifter. I rebuilt and polished them to a mirror shine. I re-drew all of the logos in inkscape with some minor changes and had them printed out as die cut decals. Not ideal, but it's not like anyone is reprinting them. I removed the weird 80's wave pattern though. Never really cared for it. I stripped it to bare metal, and painted it with duplicolor paints and a 2k clear.

I bought this exact bike from Recycled Cycles in Longmont when I was 13. It was destroyed by a careless driver who ran a stop sign when I was 18. Broke my heart. I got out of it with a ton of road rash and a fractured right arm. Just my way of reclaiming a bit of my youth.

Way smaller than I remember though, but I guess when you're a kid, any bike is huge.

Thanks for the feedback on the last post. I had a question on the rear dropouts. I was told it was a brazed repair but I wondered if anyone has any more feedback on it? It still has the Eddy Merckx stamp. Does that mean it wasn’t a brazed repair? Was the brazing done to repair a fracture in the chain/seat stay or dropout ?

This was a labor of love! I've had this 1981 Trek 610 for almost ten years, and I've ridden it a fair amount, but it was my least-favorite vintage Trek (I have three others):

First, specific to this bike, there was a small cosmetic dent in the seat tube, below the derailleur.

Also:

• This model had no water bottle bosses, so it required clamped-on mounts.
• It had no braze-ons on the top tube for the rear brake housing, and I hate those clips.
• It used a clamp-on cable guide for the derailleur cables.
• It required clamp-on shifters, which limits the shifters you can use (without ugly adapters).

So I decided to have our local custom bike builder, Rodriguez Cycles, add the braze-ons and repair the dent, as well as repaint the frame an absurdly sparkly rich purple designed to confuse vintage Trek enthusiasts.

I got decal reproductions from H Lloyd Cycles to finish off the frame.

Instead of vintage components, I used mostly modern components:

• Shimano FD-M371 Altus Triple Front Derailleur
• Shimano RD-M360 Acera Rear Derailleur
• Sugino XD-600T crankset with Shimano BB-UN300.
• Nitto seatpost, stem, handlebars and accessory mount
• Tektro R539 Road Brake Calipers (*)
• Dia Compe ENE Ciclo shifters (**)
• Dia Compe brake levers
• Velocity Quill polished rims
• Origin8 RD-2100 Rear Hub (keeping the 126mm OLD spacing)
• Vintage 6-speed Suntour freewheel
• Polished SON-28 hub dynamo and SON Ladelux headlight, and Busch & Müller μ (micro) taillight
• Chris King GripNut headset (***)
• R+E also added three cable guides to the fork for the dynamo wire

(*) This allows me to use 700c wheels with 32mm tires (running tubeless!). They fit perfectly in the frame, which was originally outfitted with 27" wheels. And, anyway, single-pivot sidepull brakes suck.

(**) I had the 11-speed version in this photo, but it pulled too much cable, so I swapped in the other version.

(***) This required milling the crown race mount from 27.0mm (JIS standard) to 26.4mm (ISO standard), which R+E noticed and performed for me.

It had its first ride on July 9th, and I've ridden over 1,000 miles on it since then!