Museum Bikes For Sale

Used Rapha-Focus Team cyclocross bike

Used Focus Mares CX $1899

This is one of Zach McDonald’s old racing bikes from the Rapha-Focus cyclocross team. It’s a carbon fiber bike outfitted with the Sram Red 22 component group, Easton handlebars and stem, a Fizik saddle and Crank Brothers pedals. Instead of the original sew-up race wheels, we have more versatile clinchers outfitted with wide Schwalbe tires suitable for touring, gravel road riding or even commuting.

This is a 54cm size, good for a rider between 5’6” and 5’9” tall. $1899.

Vintage Alfredo Suzzi road bike $799

Mid-‘80’s Alfredo Suzzi. $799

This is wonderful steel Italian road bike from the 1980’s. The frame is made from Columbus SPX tubing (the paint makes it look like carbon fiber but it’s not). You get a Campagnolo component group, mostly Chorus and Mirage level parts with Ergopower integrated shifters, 3TTT handlebars, a Fausto Coppi saddle and Mavic Open 4 rims.

This is a 56cm size, good for a rider between 5’8” and 5’11” tall. $799.

Bill Holland road bike

56cm Bill Holland $1599

This might be the bike you’ve been waiting decades to own.

A Bill Holland handcrafted steel bike. Made in San Diego, with a paint job by Joe Bell. These are big names in the American custom bicycle world. The frame has some beautiful details, like a chromed sleeve around the paint-chip prone right chainstay. There’s a chain hook on the seatstay and a pump peg on the steerer tube. The rear brake cable runs inside the top tube, and there are diamond-shaped reinforcements around the bottle cage mounts. Anyway, Beautiful work. Brand new… In 1985.

New 105/R7000 parts

Brake bridge

The components are mostly brand new for 2020. You get the all new Shimano 105 group, the R7000 series with 11 cogs on the rear Ultegra hub and a compact crankset. New Vittoria tires, Cinelli bars, Mavic rims.

This is a 56cm size, and it will fit a 5’8” to 5’10” tall rider who prizes comfort, performance and getting a good deal. Only $1599

Ritchey Ultra $1799

Ritchey Ultra $1799

Since Ritchey just decided to reuse the model name “Ultra” for their newest mountain bike, we decided to update this 1989 Ultra into a modern touring/gravel rig.

This version features a brand new 2 x 10 Deore XT drivetrain with thumbshifters and a Velo-Orange compact crankset, aluminum fenders, stainless steel racks, a new Selle Italia Turbo saddle, new Ritchey WCS foam grips, WTB All terrain tires and Deore XT platform/clipless pedals.

It also features 30 year old Tange prestige frame tubing that gives the bike an absolutely sublime ride quality. The bike is still rolling on original Araya RM-20 rims, aluminum Nitto Bullmoose handlebars, Control Stix bar-ends (remember those?), Deore XT 4-finger brake levers and cantilever brakes.

Ready for adventure

Velo Orange Drillium crankset

Ready for luggage

One of the big draws for selling a vintage bike around here is the idea that it came from someplace else (someplace that’s dry). This Ritchey is from Santa Fe.

The frame is a 19” size and will fit someone 5’8” to 5’10” tall the best. $1799.

Used 1992 Bridgestone RB-1

Vintage Bridgestone RB-1

So this is a fairly old bike, but it’s still one of the best road bikes ever made.

This Bridgestone RB-1 was built in Japan of triple-butted cromoly tubing.  The frame geometry was inspired by Colnago’s Super from the early ‘70’s. While it handles perfectly for racing, the bike is still quite comfortable and fun to ride leisurely.  The original Shimano Ultegra components were made to be extremely durable, and they are in fact in great shape.  The derailleur system has been upgraded from bar-end shifters to the more advanced Shimano STI brake/shift levers.

A 54cm frame, this bike should work pretty well for a rider between 5’6″ and 5’9” tall.  All yours for only $479.

1994 CarbonFrames (Calfee) Tetra-Pro

CarbonFrames (Calfee) Tetra-Pro

This is an early Calfee carbon fiber road bike made in 1993 or ‘94.
It has a 53cm seat tube with a 54cm top tube, a 100mm Syncros stem and 40cm 3TTT handlebars. The frame was handmade out of carbon fiber by Craig Calfee. The components are Shimano Dura-Ace 7400 (8-speed, with integrated brake/shift levers), the saddle is a Selle San Marco Regal, the seatpost is an American Classic titanium model and there is an SRP titanium and aluminum bolt kit spread around the bike. The rims are Mavic Open 4s and the tires are new Specialized clinchers. We’ll include the working Avocet Altimeter 50 cycling computer in the sale.

Good fit for a rider between 5’6” and 5’9” tall. $3499

1985 Guerciotti road bike

1985 Guerciotti with Dura-Ace parts $1799

This is a steel Guerciotti road bike made in 1985.

It has a 61cm seat tube with a 59cm top tube, a 100mm stem and 42cm Cinelli handlebars. The frame is made out of Columbus SPX tubing, which is slightly stiffer for tall bikes like this one than the more common SL or SLX pipes. The components are Shimano Dura-Ace 7400 (6-speed, with downtube shift levers), the saddle is a Cinelli Volare, the pedals are Dura-Ace with XL cages, and the tires are new Continental tubulars.
Good fit for a rider between 6’ and 6’3” tall. $1799

1985 Schwinn Cimarron touring bike

1985 Schwinn Cimarron $1199

Schwinn was ahead of their time. Way back in 1985 they advertised this bike not as a “Mountain Bike” or an “ATB” (All-Terrain Bike), but as a touring bike. Thirty-five years later the bicycle world is awash with bike-packing-gravel-adventure bikes, so the moment is probably just right to update this machine and sell it as the latest and greatest touring bike! In 1985 Schwinn’s ad copy called their Cimarron model an “Outstanding touring bike outfitted with the world’s finest components.” This bike was out of style for awhile, but it’s outfitted with the finest parts once again.

Bull moose ‘Jones” bar

Front rack

Leather touring saddle

Original equipment dating back to the 1980’s include the Suntour XC Pro seatpost and pedals, the Nitto “Bullmoose” handlebar, Shimano Deore XT front derailleur, crank arms and brakes (updated with modern cables and Kool-Stop pads). The frame features sweet riding butted cromoly steel which was made in America, and the whole package rolls around on vintage Araya rims (re-laced with fresh spokes).

2 x 10 Deore XT drivetrain

Wavy aluminum fenders

The drivetrain has been modernized to a new Deore XT 2 x 10 system (that we can make a 3 x 10 if you prefer). You get retro-styled (but modern) 10-speed thumbshifters, a modern chain, a cartridge bottom bracket, 12-36 cassette along with new Velo Orange “Drillium” chainrings.

The Aluminum fenders and slick luggage racks are made by Velo Orange, the tires are new ones from WTB, and the new leather touring saddle will be customized to you once you break it in.

This bike will work best for someone between 5’5” and 5’8” tall, and can be all yours for $1199. If nobody out there grabs this old Schwinn I’m taking it home myself…

1990 Trek 8900 Pro

1990 Trek 8900 Pro

Too bad we don’t have retro-themed mountain bike races yet…

‘Cause showing up on this bike would be awesome. This Trek 8900 is in beautiful condition with carbon fiber tubes in the main frame, a fully functional original RockShox RS-1 fork, Suntour XC pro component group with a Cook Brothers crank, Grafton brakes, Bullseye hubs, Matrix rims and Shimano M737 SPD pedals (the original version). Comes with new tires or the stock original ones.

This is an 18” size, and will fit a rider between 5’6” and 5’9” tall the best. Only $999.

1990 Specialized Allez Epic

Specialized Allez Epic

Re-ride the ‘90’s!

This is a Specialized Allez Epic from 1990. It’s a 54cm frame (54cm top tube, 100mm stem, 40cm bars). The frame and wheels are Specialized carbon fiber, the components are Shimano Dura-Ace 7400 (with dual-pivot brake calipers), the saddle is a Selle Italia Flite, the pedals are Time Equipe models, and the tires are new 23c Continentals.

Good fit for a rider between 5’6” and 5’9” tall. $1999

1988 Vitus Carbone 9

1988 Kas – Canal 10 Team Replica Vitus Carbon 9

Team Replica Kas-Canal 10 Team bike.

Want to pretend that you’re one of Sean Kelly’s teammates? This is a Vitus Carbone 9 1988 team replica. The carbon frame is a 52cm size (with a 53cm top tube, 90mm stem and 42cm bars). All of the components are period-correct Mavic parts except for the tires (which are new 25c Vittoria Rally tubulars) and Look pedals. The saddle is a French Reydel GTI model.

Good for a rider between 5’3” and 5’6” tall. $1999.

1940′s Colson Flyer

1940′s Colson Flyer

The restoration project.

Everybody loves good before and after photos.  A bicycle restoration project is great at showing the damage that the decades can do, and you get to watch as that damage is erased with fresh paint or new chrome.

A while back, this balloon-tire cruiser came to us as a rusty old relic.  The years were not kind to the old Colson.  While the rust was not deep, it was everywhere.  The owner, a fellow named Gerald Taylor, had a history with the bike and wanted to return the Flyer to its former glory.

Colson Flyer “before”

Gerald’s father had purchased the bike upon returning to the Seattle area from the second World War.  Affordable cars were hard to come by in the months following the end of the war, and Gerald’s father figured he could get around on these two wheels just as well as he could with four.  The bike served as a trusty commuter for a number of years before transitioning to recreational use, and finally retiring to the back of the garage.

The crankset “after”

The crankset “before”

The wheels were beyond repair.  By removing the head badge and the reflectors, we were able to find clean bits of original paint, so the new colors would match.  Parts were stripped off of the frame, and the dents were rolled out of the fenders.

Off to the painter (CycleSmith) went the frame, fork, fenders, and chainguard.

Into the recycling went the chain, pedals, and wheels.

The fenders “after”

The fenders “before”

Rusty bits like the chainring, seatpost, fork struts, handlebars and stem made their way to the chrome shop (Art’s chroming in Bremerton).

Some of the parts that you find on old bikes are still made today.  No problem getting a Wald kickstand, and the reproductions of the pedals and saddle are well worth the price.  Appropriate fasteners are just a quick trip to the hardware store (no allen bolts or torx heads on sixty year old bikes, thank you).

The head tube “after”

The head tube “before”

Jeff, who started collecting balloon-tire bikes decades ago, dug up some great matching wheels and tires from a “donor” bike.  Fresh grease for the hubs and some new spokes made them roll and look just right.

Now, I’d like to say this was a quick project.  But it wasn’t.

Sometimes it takes a while to find the right parts.  You have to get on a painter’s schedule (some have months-long backlogs), and it takes a while to get chrome done (Art’s is actually quite fast).  You may have seen the car and motorcycle restoration shows on television where things move lightning fast.  They use an editor.

The headlight “after”

The headlight “before”

I truly wish we were able to finish this bike sooner, as Gerald missed the opportunity to see his beautiful bike all spruced up.  Gerald fell ill and passed away a few weeks before we were able to finish the project.

The “After” photo is the way this bike would have looked when Gerald’s dad first brought it home.

This bike is for sale from the museum collection.  It can be yours, fully restored, for $1500.