Retro Bicycle Thread

[Cippo]

1) yes it can. My pina fork was forked. Had it redone and it looks spanking.

2) yes it can. They tape it up and bobs your uncle.. However the place that did my fork had a colnago for this process.

3) no ideas about Cape Town. Google will help. Keywords like electro plating Cape Town should give you something to work with.

Hundreds!

[DJR]

3 questions.

1: Can a fork be rechromed without damaging it?

2: Is it possible to rechrome a chainstay and rear dropouts?

3: Who to go to for rechroming in Cape Town?

Place called Glitterama did my re-chrome work. Let Google be your friend. Jared from BMC use them a lot too. Took ages, but my work was perfect. Not sure about how well they do part-frames.

[Cippo]

Place called Glitterama did my re-chrome work. Let Google be your friend. Jared from BMC use them a lot too. Took ages, but my work was perfect. Not sure about how well they do part-frames.

Tx for the info guys.

[Guest notmyname]

1) yes it can. My pina fork was forked. Had it redone and it looks spanking.

2) yes it can. They tape it up and bobs your uncle.. However the place that did my fork had a colnago for this process.

3) no ideas about Cape Town. Google will help. Keywords like electro plating Cape Town should give you something to work with.

Poor error... The colnago I speak of didn't look so tidy when I saw it. BUT... That was their first attempt. He muttered something about tape and TAPE? my stays were in good enough condition. Thank the Pope.

[Fixer]

For sale in Classifieds:

1992 Bridgestone MB4

 

 

[Fixer]

For sale in Classifieds:

Cannondale SM400 1987

Edited November 8, 2014 by Fixer

[Fixer]

Some more frames for sale in Classifieds:

Somec SLX 56cm

Benotto Mod 800 58cm

Gianni Motta 55cm

 

[Fixer]

One more in the classifieds:

Look KG96 Team Replica

 

[Badsam]

Anyone know what brand of frame this is? Has a mix of Campagnolo, Shimano 600 and Dura Ace components. There doesn't appear to be any branding on the frame besides the Alan stickers... but this clearly isn't an Alan as they all had the seat stays stamped. Lugs look very similar though. 

[Badsam]

A real Alan...

[CAAD4]

Interesting that even back then, there might have been wannabees branding their Allen's into Alan's to look the part....

[Ryanpmb]

Decided the Gemini deserved better than the trainer this morning...

 

[ren8gor]

Nearing Completing, my 1964 (I think) model Vitesse.  Anyone know anything of this brand?

[Loose cog]

Anyone know what brand of frame this is? Has a mix of Campagnolo, Shimano 600 and Dura Ace components. There doesn't appear to be any branding on the frame besides the Alan stickers... but this clearly isn't an Alan as they all had the seat stays stamped. Lugs look very similar though. 

 

It certainly looks like an Alan. The rear dropouts and lugs look similar. I don't recall having seen an Alan with an inner top tube brake cable. The one's I have seen all have the cable going through two or three mounts situated on the top of the tube. 

 

My Carbonio also has carbon chain stays whilst the example posted has an alu chain stay.

 

Is there any makings on the BB and or fork?

Edited November 10, 2014 by Loose cog

[Badsam]

There are no markings whatsoever, I'll take some better pics when I'm back home. As far as i know, i think Vitus and Peugeot had made similar carbon/ alu frames. So perhaps it's one of those...

 

Had a look at the dropouts and lugs and looks identical to the Alan.

[EvanB]

Look at the 'markings' under the BB