Skip find
retrobike007
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Next door neighbor found this in a skip, and asked the thrower outer if he could have it, I have looked around the interweb and cant find anything about it, can anyone shed any light?
Its a Carrera - Tour de France Ltd Edition, at a guess, I would say maybe late 80s, early 90s, full Campy Stratos GS, 531 tubing, braze on front mech and ergo shifters. Seems to be a good spec for such an old bike.
Can anybody give me any idea if its any good?
Its a Carrera - Tour de France Ltd Edition, at a guess, I would say maybe late 80s, early 90s, full Campy Stratos GS, 531 tubing, braze on front mech and ergo shifters. Seems to be a good spec for such an old bike.
Can anybody give me any idea if its any good?
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Well it looks beautiful! It'd make my year to be given something like that, good for you.
Only found this, but gives a bit of info:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI. ... true&rt=nc0 -
Good for nowt!0
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Ed J wrote:Well it looks beautiful! It'd make my year to be given something like that, good for you.
Only found this, but gives a bit of info:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI. ... true&rt=nc
Its not mint by any stretch, shame there were no pics on that listing
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This is what I did with a skip find - viewtopic.php?f=40044&t=12877182
Strip it down, repaint in some nice colours and it could be a nice bike!
Road - Dolan Preffisio
MTB - On-One Inbred
I have no idea what's going on here.0 -
nice ! clean and regrease the hset, hubs and drivetrain, treat it to new brakeblocks and bar tape, other than that just ride it and enjoy"I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
--Jens Voight0 -
edhornby wrote:nice ! clean and regrease the hset, hubs and drivetrain, treat it to new brakeblocks and bar tape, other than that just ride it and enjoy
Not sure what he wants to do with it, but if its heading back to the skip it will be in my garage undergoing a strip down and a new coat of paint. It rides really nicely, although compared to my trek weighs same as a small car
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Haha, Is that your Roller? Awesome!tick - tick - tick0
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Unfortunately not, its the neighbors, he has 2 of them
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Carrera used to make really nice bikes. A friend of mine had one which had been his dad's and it was beautiful.
I wouldn't do too much to it.
If your neighbour's got two Rollers, why is he diving in skips?0 -
Chadders81 wrote:
If your neighbour's got two Rollers, why is he diving in skips?
He saw the bloke putting it in and asked if he could have it as he wants to try cycling 0
