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When you are a teenager you are thrilled with any bike, even the very cheap ten-speed road bike your parent's buy you for your 16th birthday from a department or hardware store. I got about three years out of that bike back in the 1970s before I crashed it and bent it up. Probably three of the...

Nobody here mentioned Jobst Brandt's book on bicycle wheel building which is short, to the point, and has illustrations to walk a beginner through lacing up and truing wheels. Mr. Brandt was quite a smart guy, some sort of engineer and used computer analysis and includes some math to show the...

So did you buy the frame with no "Prestige" decal on it?

Actually, in the "after photo" directly above, where the bike is against a blue wall, it is all done and ready to ride. I got a new "Nervar" bottom bracket spindle cheap off Ebay and put it in with a couple of good cups out of my junk-box. Have put quite a few miles on the bike in the past few...

One laying around here that works, got it at a local junk-shop for $20, and that is the most I have ever paid for any Leica.

A Harley I used to have around here, was fun to ride. Put some lights and a brake on it and rode it on the street for a while too. Cops gave me a ticket.

Some Nikons laying around here;

My oily-rag '62 650ss Norton.

The after-after photo. I swapped in a different seatpost and stem to make the bike more comfortable for me, so I would not be stretched out on it like I was on the rack in the Spanish Inquisition.

My method for acquiring bicycles is they have to be local and cheap, so I end up with whatever pops up for sale near my home, is my size, and inexpensive. But now I am out of space pretty much for any more bikes so will put the blinders on so will not be tempted to get anymore. Does not always...

Checked my average speed over 20K with this bike and was able to hold a 22.1mph average, so it is a fast bike for me.

Went for a 45 mile ride on this bike today with my 60-something year-old butt, and it made me feel younger for a while. A bit of a rough ride with all of that old carbon under me, but it sure seemed fast. I went by radar speed signs on the side of the road twice once when I was fresh and once...

Yes, that is what they made those seatposts for. I like riding with it, but it is a little short for me. A full length post will not fit down into this frame, so it is short. I will have to get another one and cut it to a longer length than this one so the bike fits me better.

This was hanging in a widow's basement local to me for a few decades, tires were dry-rotted etc. She was very happy to see I got it back on the road recently. From 1989, one of the first carbon road bikes, made in the USA, sporting some of the first popular carbon wheels, also made in the USA. A...

Well, I took it all apart and put it back together and took another photo of it, and it looks pretty much the same. The "Italia" seat is off an old Motobecane I used to have which was about the same year as this bike, and I put Velox black cotton bar tape on the bike. Also got rid of the...