Recent content by Nothin-fancy

The newest pee-knuckle out on a ride to the park. Here's my lil prince... I'll have to get a picture of him on his Bike Tow Leash. He loves to go for runs while I coast beside him on my bicycle.

What an odd bike. Everything looks like it was kept outdoors but the Reynolds decal doesn't look faded like the rest of the bike. Also it's funny to see helper brake levers on a Reynolds frame. They're usually on lower end 70's bike's in my neck of the woods. Then the you have the single TA...

It's a 55ctc or 57ctt frame and it has oval-ish fork blades like a road bike. The fork is original to the bike and not drilled for brakes, but you can see where he filled the brake hole with braze. It is probably a typical Italian frame from that period and he just grabbed what was on the shelf...

Thanks for your help. It's a 27.0 seatpost. I'm repainting the frame and want to put the correct-ish sticker on it. When I contacted Zullo about it all he could say was that it was made by him with Columbus tubing and it was made just before he started making the TVM squad's frames. I don't plan...

Well sweet. Thanks for your help.

I'm trying to figure out what tubing one of my Zullo track bikes has. I'm pretty sure it's Columbus SP but does anyone know the seat tube diameter for the PL tubing? It might be the Pista Leggeri because that's a track bike specific tubing set. I can't find anything on Google, so maybe someone...

Sweet! That's a pretty good deal. Glad you found something that works.

Ive seen the spx sticker. This has a clear slx-sp sticker. It appears to be original to the frame too. I wonder if I could email Columbus about it and if they would even know???

I'm going to be looking at a frame that has a Columbus decal that says SLXSP on it? Anyone ever come across something like this? Maybe it's a tretubi of slx main tubes and sp stays? It's a 54 cm Californian Masi that's either Tesch or Moulton built if that helps. I'd expect SP on a larger frame...

It's never a good idea to add potential stress risers to aluminum parts. Especially when it's something mission critical as brakes. Whether you have done it before or not, the brakes will fail at the worst time when you are emergency braking and gripping the levers really hard. Nobody likes to...

I forgot to mention that you may need what Kool Stop calls thinline pads to clear the space between the rim and fork because of the longer pad.

Technically you could use threaded post pads meant for V brakes or the threaded Kool Stop Eagle 2 pads. It wouldn't look vintage or period correct but having longer pads would make the brakes work better. I used to do that with single pivot brakes on my commuter bikes back in the day.

I used to go to Pomona to watch the drag's when I was little. That was cool back in the 80's when it still kinda had the wild west feel and 300mph was still a benchmark and not just a baseline like now. I was going to the Mile High Winter National's by where I live. My gf did work for Litton...

I have to agree on this one. They are super cheap on bikeinn. And they work really well for the price. Between 10s Veloce and Shimano's 8s Claris. You can't really go wrong if you're looking for brifter shifting. I put Claris shifter's on my GF'S Panasonic 3000DX and was really surprised at how...