For the last 10 years I’ve collected a few Road bikes from the 70s and the 80s. All of them are in good shape. There are some honorable mentions at the end. What is a honorable mention? you’ll have to stay to the end. What are your favorites. What should I get next? Please leave it in the comment section below!
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No Italvega?
that was awesome, thoroughly enjoyable and amazing collection, thank you!
Great beauties!
Thanks for sharing them with us!
Best wishes from Montreal!
Those bikes were so pure in their design you felt you could adjust anything yourself.
Do you Know the bike Concorde ?
In the revolver gun world, we call them flutes
A Cinelli Super Corsa in silver with chromed lugs. I have only seen pictures. In Toronto there was a high end bicycle store in the seventies called Bicyclesport on King Street, where I would buy parts. They had a green Super Corsa in the window. It was the most beautiful bicycle I had seen but could not afford. It cost about four times as much as my Gitane Tour de France; which I still own.
Love your collection. I’ve got Italian tiguierre slx, bianchi minimax and now finally I’m waiting for a overmax grandis )
about 10 years ago I bought myself a nice second hand Battaglin race bike from the eighties. The saddle is a Arius Gran Carrera Special. The derailleur is a Simplex. The original pump is still present. Some yellow en pink stickers says "Giro d'italia and Vuelta Espagna" I bought it because of the frame size (I am 6.2 or 190 cm tall). The bike cost me 35€ (in Belgium). It is light as a feather. A sky blue color feather.
Hi John! Quick question: how did you know the last two bikes were Chinese? What were the indicators?
Oh man. I'd love to photograph all of them. So beautiful
WOW!
Wonderful collection, John! I've been building custom vintage and modern bicycles for the past dozen years or so, and I second (third?) the idea that your Saronni Colnago is a Nuovo Mexico, as one was among my first projects. A Wilier-Triestina in the cromovelato ramato would be an excellent addition to your collection, but I agree with some other comments that you could use a DeRosa, Gios and Battaglin (bah-tahl-YEEN). Mentioning pronunciation, you HAVE to correct the way you say Campagnolo and Mavic. The Italian "GN", like in the word "lasagna", sounds like an "ny" blend, so it's cahm-pahn-YOH-loh…and with Mavic, there is no long "a" sound in French, so it is MAH-vick. If you are interested, check me out at Cycle Tech Royersford (PA). I have a Facebook page and I also write a blog about my projects and riding adventures – there you can find links to my (much smaller) collection of bikes, too!
ALAN is making bikes still as i type this
beautiful collection, Im a mechanic at a bike shop in Northern VA, and have been for the last 10 years, love vintage bikes, and campy parts. my current collection is an 86 trek 400 ive rebuilt with brooks, velo orange, and shimano 6500 which is more of my sunday cafe bike. my main bike is a 2018 gunnar hyper xf custom in gunnar blue with white panels (similar to the saronni color scheme with silver hydraulic campy potenza as a neo-classic build(similar to your masi gran crit), and on the back burner now is my unicorn, my 2001 waterford rs11 in pearl white, which ill build up with 10 speed campy chorus and brooks. subscribed and looking forward to more videos
Something about looking at older bikes that just puts your mind in a whole different world. I was a Cat-1 in the late 70s early 80s in LA, raced a Team Koga Miyata, with all aero Shimano. My whole adult life I worked outside and inside the bicycle industry until I semi retired in 2004. You would think I would tire of bikes, buttttt nooooo, I now run a small private professional bike shop out of my Garage in Seattle, dealing with and working on the latest and the greatest. Yet I still go bananas when I see old classic bikes. The bikes I always loved was GIOs, their frames were nothing less than perfection, as if their lugs came out of a plastic mold. Anyways Great Work. If I ever come across an all 100% original vintage race bike, I will make sure to contact you and pass it on to you so you can keep it alive for others to enjoy.
colnago master olympic
legano with bas- relief head badge made of brass .
Awesome video, thanks !
I would like to find an old Raleigh T-1 track bike to restore.
whoa! the last time I heard 'TSDI' (Ten Speed Drive Imports) was in the mid-late 80s when I worked in a shop (Bay Area-Northern Calif). TSDI was our 'pro' distributor to our shop. I think my shop paycheck went straight to TSDI as I took advantage of the shop discount outfitting my bike first with C-Record/Delta brakes gruppo, then with the DuraAce 7400 gruppo.