Your vintage bike

funkidread69

Just finished the neo-retro single speed build to be used as my daily commuter. I used a 1985 Gazelle Champion Mondial AA Special frame which was resprayed plumstead purple.

futureslay

1985 Peugeot PH10LS 54cm

It was found in North West Wales in an absolute state (before photo at the end). I took it in, stripped it completely and have given it a new lease of life.

New tyres, freewheel, chain, brake pads, bar tape, pedals, all cables, down tube shifters.

These photos were before I changed the saddle - hadn't decided on it at that point!

wood_dweller

Gazelle Randonneur Trophy. It had mostly parts from SunTour XC Pro groupset. Now it has strange parts mixed like Deore LX rear derailleur and triple crankset Great bike for long trips and lightweight touring.

Matthewfalle

funkidread69 wrote:

Just finished the neo-retro single speed build to be used as my daily commuter. I used a 1985 Gazelle Champion Mondial AA Special frame which was resprayed plumstead purple.

Well cool. And once you've levelled the saddle double cool.

flashes

Here's my 1946 RO Harrison, a few things to sort (stripped fork thread) but it's getting there...

solosuperia

That awoke some memories, R.O.Harrison I had one as a hack bike in the sixties. Rode it with a fixie in the winter, rack on the back doing "Reliability Trials" as they were called then..... should have been called eye-balls out blasts.
Stacked my race bike up and kitted the Harrison out with all the trick gear and raced it for a few months???
Don't know why I didn't stick with it........... Most comfortable bike I have ever ridden!!!!!

RickCoMatic

I'm putting the finishing touches on restoring and upgrading my wife's Peugeot Carbolite 103. It began as an awkward Touring Bike. I managed to smooth-it-out for road and aerobics. The freewheel is now an Ultra-6. Nice, smooth changes in work and cadence. I gave it a component upgrade (of sorts), by exchanging the stock HURET changers with SUNTOUR Accera and Cyclone derailleurs. All new Stainless Cables and Sheaths. SUNTOUR ratcheting Power Shifters meticulously cleaned, overhauled and modified for easy friction adjustments with Stainless Thumb Screws and additional stainless steel flat washers sandwiched between Nylon flats lubed with Synthetic waterproof grease on both shifters. The crude bare metal cable guide under the crank became an attachment point for a short length of Cable Shroud with ferrules. A fully custom reinforced new cable run with Chrome Cable Stop supports the needed connection for the Down-pull to the front derailleurs.

rolf_f

RickCoMatic wrote:

I'm putting the finishing touches on restoring and upgrading my wife's Peugeot Carbolite 103. It began as an awkward Touring Bike. I managed to smooth-it-out for road and aerobics. The freewheel is now an Ultra-6. Nice, smooth changes in work and cadence. I gave it a component upgrade (of sorts), by exchanging the stock HURET changers with SUNTOUR Accera and Cyclone derailleurs. All new Stainless Cables and Sheaths. SUNTOUR ratcheting Power Shifters meticulously cleaned, overhauled and modified for easy friction adjustments with Stainless Thumb Screws and additional stainless steel flat washers sandwiched between Nylon flats lubed with Synthetic waterproof grease on both shifters. The crude bare metal cable guide under the crank became an attachment point for a short length of Cable Shroud with ferrules. A fully custom reinforced new cable run with Chrome Cable Stop supports the needed connection for the Down-pull to the front derailleurs.

If you've achieved a genuine upgrade by taking off a Suntour Cyclone derailleur then I'd be very impressed!