BCA – Bicycle Corp of America. Bike is from around 1983 – Aluminum frame – Racing tires. Any idea of the worth? I can not seem to find any info on it.
by armchairqb2020
BCA – Bicycle Corp of America. Bike is from around 1983 – Aluminum frame – Racing tires. Any idea of the worth? I can not seem to find any info on it.
by armchairqb2020
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Just like most bike forums, if you can only take one picture of your bike, TAKE A PICTURE OF THE DRIVE SIDE! It’s hard to tell the nature/quality of the bike without seeing the majority of the components. If you need help trying to ID a bike/frame, please take pictures of: The whole bike, head badge, decals, lugs/welds, serial number, components/parts, and anything else of note on the bike.
What makes you say it’s aluminum? Is it written on the frame?
You’ve had it since you were a teenager. If you ride or care about bikes at all, don’t sell it.
It might fetch $250, but you’ll never find **this bike** ever again.
My first roadie was an ’87 Peugeot Avoriaz, bright red with suicide shifters. Lower-mid range bike, nothing special, but it was my first. I outgrew it and sold it in my 20’s. I’d pay handsomely to have another just like it.
Memories are funny things. I often find people who bought bikes many years ago have totally misremembered details about them. One guy told me his Raleigh was made in France… when it literally said “Made in England” right there on the frame.
So, that said, this is 100% definitely a steel frame. Also absolutely no way this was $700 in 1983 (unless the shop totally ripped you off), that’s about $2,200 in today’s money, and this is one step up from an entry level bike, not an upper level racing machine. For example, a 1983 Trek 520, a midrange touring model, cost $375. The 760, a higher end racing model, was $808. Trek’s entry level model 400, which is higher quality than your bike, was $259. Your bike was probably more in the less than $200 range.
Your “aluminum” bike looks like it’s starting to rust at the seat stays.
You are an active subreddit! Thanks for all the feedback
I was just scrolling though my regular reddits and it for whatever reason it suggested this subreddit out of the blue. I thought, hey, I have a Vintage bike!
Take it easy on me. My first post here. I have just started biking again after a couple of decades off. Have kept the old BCA hanging in my garage out of nostalgia. My new daily rider is a new aluminum (tested it) RedLine hybrid.
Please don’t tell me they are not the same Redline from the 80s! 🙂
Low end steel frame bicycle
It’s a low end bike. Giveaways are the stem mounted shifters & the suicide levers.
Not saying you can’t have fun with it, but it’s not worth much, and if you sink money into it you won’t get it back.
I appreciate all the feedback.
Crazy when I think I have owned this bike for 40 years.
It deserves to be ridden. If not, it has a spot in my garage museum, where I hit my head on it every week. 🙂