This is my grandpa's old bike. And he's had it forever. At a bike meetup someone told me it was a cool model of some sort.
Anyone know what type of bike this is. Year? company?
by wdillman
This is my grandpa's old bike. And he's had it forever. At a bike meetup someone told me it was a cool model of some sort.
Anyone know what type of bike this is. Year? company?
by wdillman
4 Comments
Can’t tell but it’s a nice lugged steel frame with some cool alt bars and DT Swiss Wheels and some upper level vintage components. Looks like a Rene Herse front bag too. Gramps had good taste. Maybe try to see if you can find any ghosted decals with a bright light in the garage or lookup up the serial number on the bottom bracket shell.
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it’s definitely some kind of custom randonneur bike. Looks likea really nice berthoud randonneur/porteur bag and some really nice white industries cranks on the bike. As for year, you might have some issues finding information unless you can grab serial numbers from the bottom bracket shell or dropouts. Looks like its either been repainted or just a really old paintjob.
It’s a lugged steel randonneur with nice components. See the bracket holding the top of the bag? It’s called a decaleur, it’s purpose built to hold a bag like that. The bar is a Titec H-bar, a riff on a Jones bar, I think maybe license built by Titec? It’s on a Salsa stem connected to a threaded adapter for ahead stems. Those bars are out of production, but they were relatively common 15-20 years ago. Looks like grandpa’s back might have been playing up on him, because typically that bike would have drop bars. Grandpa had it set up so he could sit up straighter and take some strain off his spine, and he probably converted it from drop bars.
Also, did he ride brevets? That type of bike, a randonneur, is popular in randonneuring, a long-distance cycling sport that’s non-competitive. People ride 200, 300, 400, 600, 1,200 kilometer distances, and sometimes more, racing the clock instead of each other.