Museum Bikes For Sale

Vintage 1980 Benotto road bike

Vintage Benotto $1549

This is a forty year old vintage Benotto road bike. Roger de Vlaeminck won the 1979 editions of Het Volk and Milan-San Remo aboard his Benotto road bike, and I’m sure you can go just as fast as Mr. De Vlaeminck if you buy it. The other two ingredients to Roger’s success were massive sideburns and lots of Gis brand Gelati, just so you know what you’re in for…

We have updated this wonderful Italian bike from the original Campagnolo Gran Sport components. The bike now has new 2 x 11 speed shifting thanks to a Campagnolo Centaur drivetrain, It stops a hell of a lot better with new Campy Chorus brakes, you get a comfortable ride atop a Brooks saddle and cork handlebar tape, and the whole bike feels a lot smoother with new Campagnolo Khamsin wheels and Panaracer tires.

Benotto etched stem and head badge

Modern Campy Centaur drivetrain

Brooks saddle, new Campy Chorus brakes

This is a 50cm size frame and it will fit a rider who is 5’ to 5’4” tall the best. It comes with a working vintage Silca frame pump and new SPD pedals. All yours for only $1549.

Vintage Klein Pinnacle

Vintage XL Klein Pinnacle

How about a vintage (but modernized) Klein mountain bike for kicking around in the woods or exploring bike trails and logging roads?

This is a Klein Pinnacle from 1989 or 1990. Originally outfitted with a complete Shimano Deore XT 21-speed component group, we’ve overhauled it and updated the parts. Now we have a 3 x 9 drivetrain with an XTR derailleur, Microshift thumbshifters, and a new chain and cassette. The brakes have brand new Kool-Stop pads. There are fresh cables, chainrings, grips, pedals, tires, saddle and handlebars.

Thumbshifters!

XTR 9-speed derailleur

Suntour Powercam brake

This is a new (old) bike ready for all kinds of fun adventures. Want it? This is a big bike, appropriate for a rider between 5’10” and 6’2” tall. All yours for only $799.

1986 Fat Chance mountain bike (now “Gravel Bike”)

1986 Fat Chance Mountain Bike updated for 2021

Give this bike another chance (to be ridden).

Thirty years ago this was a custom high-level mountain bike from one of the best builders on the East Coast, Fat City Cycles. Don’t let it die a dusty death simply because technology and what we call a “mountain bike” has evolved.

This wonderful vintage steel mountain bike is back, only now we’re going to call it a “gravel bike”. The hand-built steel frame and terrific ride quality is still there only we’ve updated the components that matter most.

This hot-rodded old mountain bike now has 30 speeds thanks to a modern Shimano Deore XT rear derailleur and new thumbshifters.

Vintage Magura brake levers, modern thumbshifters

Modern Deore XT drivetrain

A Hite-Rite and the Selle Italia Turbo “Bonnie” saddle

The vintage Saturae rims have been rebuilt with new Velo-Orange hubs, Panaracer Gravel King tires and fresh spokes. The new Velo-Orange Grand Cru crankset looks just right on the vintage bike but with modern chainrings the shifting is precise and smooth. The vintage Magura brake levers have always had an insane amount of stopping power but now with fresh Kool Stop pads in place the brakes will work quietly and reliably in the worst conditions.

Topping off this new old bike is a quilted remake of the classic Selle Italia Turbo saddle, an original Blackburn rear rack from 1986 and a Nitto front rack from 2021.

This is a medium size 19” frame and will be most comfortable for a rider between 5’7” and 5’9” tall. $1799.

Davidson retro road bike

Vintage 1976 50cm Davidson road bike

Like the vintage vibe?

This retro-cool Davidson is a 50cm (small) steel road bike from 1976. Hand-built by Bill Davidson here in Seattle.

Now, we like vintage road bikes probably more than anyone, but we hate vintage components for everyday use. Technology has made riding safer and more comfortable. To that end, this bike has modern parts. A 2021 Campagnolo Centaur component group. Campagnolo Khamsin wheels. Velo-Orange Gran Cru brake calipers (that really stop), a compact crankset (that really helps you go), a sealed cartridge bottom bracket.

Campy Khamsin wheels

PDW rack, Centaur drivetrain

Velo-Orange Drillium crankset

You get 28mm-wide Vittoria Rubino Pro tires for awesome traction and comfort, and some fun accessories that really accentuate the vintage look.

This is a 50cm size, good for a rider 5’1” to 5’5” tall. Only $1599.

Pinarello Vuelta vintage 1996 steel road bike

1996 Pinarello Vuelta 54cm

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

A Pinarello handcrafted steel road bike. Made in Italy, at the height of Miguel Indurain’s domination of the grand tours. To say Pinarello is a big name in the racing bicycle world is an understatement. Besides winning the Tour de France five times with Big Mig, Pinarello had wins with Pedro Delgado, Bjarne Riis, Jan Uhlrich, Brad Wiggins, Chris Froome, Gerraint Thomas and Egen Bernal. You may not care about any of that, but all of those wins wouldn’t have happened on bikes that didn’t perform well.

Vuelta front end

Campagnolo Chorus

Concor light saddle

The frame is made out of custom butted cromoly steel, the component group is Campagnolo Chorus with the beautiful Campagnolo Vento aero wheels. The bike has Continental Gatorskin tires for a little bit of puncture protection to go along with all ot this speed and efficiency, and everything is essentially brand new. Well, brand new in 1996.

This is a 54cm size, and it will fit a 5’7” to 5’9” tall rider who prizes comfort, performance and getting the bike they always wanted (even if it’s a decade or two late). Only $1996.

Early ‘70’s Holdsworth Professional

1975 Holdsworth Professional

This is an early ‘70’s vintage dream bike. A Holdsworth Professional, made out of Reynolds 531 tubing and equipped with Campagnolo Nuovo Record hubs, shifters, seatpost & derailleurs. It has a Stronglight “compact” crankset (compact gears for the 1970’s that is), a Stronglight headset, Universal 68 brakes, 3ttt bars & stem, a Brooks saddle and new Vittoria 25mm tires.

A 56cm size, this bike will fit a rider 5’8” to 5’11” tall the best. Only $1199.

See more photos of this bike in the 1966 to 1985 museum bikes section.

1975 Hugh Porter Bantel Team Replica

1975 Hugh Porter Bantel Team Bike

This is a vintage Bantel team replica road bike, a Hugh Porter made in Britain. It’s a British bike, so of course it’s made out of Reynold’s 531 tubing.  The wheels are made with Campagnolo hubs and Super Champion rims with new Panaracer Pasela tires. Like most serious racing bikes from the early ‘70’s, this one is equipped with a complete Campagnolo Nuovo Record component group, a Cinelli stem, bars and Unicanitor saddle. Some nice added touches include the Silca pump, vintage bottle cage, red rubber covers for the downtube shifters and the red Bullseye derailleur pulleys.

It’s a 56cm size, a good fit for a rider between 5’8” and 5’10” tall. $1499

More photos in the 1966 to 1985 museum section

Vintage 1971 Cinelli Speciale Corsa (S.C.) road bike

1971 Cinelli Speciale Corsa 57cm

This is a wonderful steel Italian road bike from the 1970’s.

The frame comes from Cinelli’s dream factory in Milan and is made from Columbus SL cromoly steel tubing. You get a Campagnolo Nuovo Record component group including the rat trap-style pedals with alloy toe clips and leather straps. Other goodies include Cinelli Giro d’Italia handlebars, a Cinelli 1A stem, Mavic Super Champion rims and new 25c Vittoria Rally tires. There is a period-correct bottle cage, a Silca frame pump and cotton handlebar tape.

Cinelli front end

Campagnolo Nuovo Record

Cinelli Unicanitor

This bike is all set for one of the Eroica retro-bike rides (hopefully they’ll get rescheduled after the pandemic).

The Speciale Corsa was really one of the finest road bikes ever crafted. If this bike speaks to you but you don’t think that you’d ride it much given the vintage parts, let’s talk. There is really no reason a bike like this can’t be modernized with a new Campy Record component group or even (gasp!) Shimano Ultegra.

Cinelli badge

downtube details

Seat tube

This is a 57cm size with a 56cm top tube and a 12cm stem, it has 172.5mm crank arms and a 42cm wide handlebar. All of those numbers mean that it’s a good fit for a rider between 5’9” and 5’11” tall. $1971.

1938 BSA Triple Star

1938 BSA Triple Star

“The B.S.A. range for 1938 is unquestionably the finest range of quality bicycles ever offered the cycling public. And although that may seem a big claim to make – particularly in view of the many fine machines made by B.S.A. in the past – it is a true claim as you will quickly appreciate when you see the B.S.A. Cycling Annual. The new B.S.A. Triple Star and Gold Band models offer you the very latest in modern bicycle design, specification and finish.

The headlamp still works

BSA head badge

Gravel bike bars?

The new Keep-Fit models are specially designed for men and women who appreciate the value of Cycling for health and fitness. And remember – B.S.A. Bicycles are acclaimed throughout the cycling world as the bicycles with the finest quality specification. Quality materials and quality workmanship ensure perfection in such vital parts as hubs, chainwheels, cranks, pedals and chain – perfection which means easy running and reliability.”

BSA crankset

Birmingham Small Arms

Hubs with oil ports & wingnuts

You have just read very earnest 80-year-old ad copy. After tuning up this bike and riding a lap of Bainbridge Island I’d have to agree that this is a really fine quality bike (way better than those lousy 1937 models!). I have no idea how this Triple Star spent the war or the subsequent decades but the Reynolds 531 steel tubing is rust-free and straight. The beautifully curved Russ fork handles nicely and offers a good amount of bump compliance.

Rim brakes

Brooks saddle, new bag

Bluemels fenders

The original owner must have been skeptical of the optional Cyclo twin-wire 3-speed derailleur and instead opted for the BSA single-speed coaster-brake hub. I’m not certain I would have made that same choice as a couple of gear options would have made hills much more tolerable when ascending, but controlling your speed is really pleasant on this bike with three very capable brakes on it. Most antique bicycles are a bit scary when the going gets a bit out of control…

Triple Star ad

In light of the “new” Gravel Bike category this Triple Star seems to have everything going for it. Remember, we’re talking the finest quality here. Like a lot of modern gravel bikes there’s a gigantic seatbag for carrying all of your stuff instead of racks and panniers. There’s a wide but shallow drop handlebar (and this one has a bell on it along with cork grips). This one forgoes the (not yet invented) front derailleur and multiple chainrings. Instead you get a simple single front chainring. It has 650b medium-width tires and fenders. Brakes that are kind of overkill. A Brooks B15 saddle. The Triple Star even comes with an integrated headlight!

This bike is for sale out of our museum collection. Hang it on a wall, ride it to the coffee shop or ride 100 miles on it at Eroica Britannia. Only $2500

1987 Gitane Vitus 979

Vitus 979 “Gitane”

It’s not a Gitane. While we’re at it, it’s also not a Cilo or a Peugeot or a Motobecane or Cycles France-Loire or anyone else. It’s a Vitus 979.

Vitus was a tubing supplier to a lot of different brands and offered this complete frameset as an option too. Somebody like Gitane, a bike maker with a dozen different steel models would label a Vitus frame as their own (usually omitting the giant Vitus decal on the top tube) and voila! Aluminum bike.

Vitus 979 framesets were made of small diameter 5086 aluminum tubing that was slip-fit onto aluminum sockets and then glued into place using a heat-activated type of epoxy. Bikes like this one were lighter, springier, and in a lot of instances, more comfortable than what steel bike brands had to offer

Vitus front end

Synchro shift levers

6 speeds

This bike and it’s parts were at the forefront of the mid ‘80’s road bike design revolution. We already mentioned the aluminum frame with its glued joints replacing the traditional lugged steel frameset. As for the parts…

The Look ski-binding style pedals had only recently gained a “foothold” among bike racers, replacing old-style toe clips and straps.

C Record Cranks

Mavic GP-4 tubulars

Indexed or “click” shifters, already popularized in ‘87 by Shimano and Suntour, get the Italian interpretation on this bike courtesy of Campagnolo. I believe we have Chorus Synchro II shifters here, the second version without the little auxiliary lever the first iteration had which allowed the rider to revert to friction shifting on the fly in case the indexing didn’t work. Campy did pretty well with the shifting on this bike considering that they didn’t produce entire drivetrains like their Japanese counterparts. Campagnolo had to design their indexed shifting without knowing whose chain would be used or what kind of spacing to expect the third-party freewheel to have. By about 1990 Campagnolo brought production of these parts in house.

Chorus derailleurs

Huracan Crono saddle

Oh hey, how about the saddle on this bike? It’s not a traditional leather model by Selle Italia or Selle San Marco, which is notable given how traditional road bikes had been for so many decades. This is a Lycra-covered gel saddle mounted on a real racing bike, a Huracan Crono model that resembles the Selle Italia Turbo Bio model that was fairly popular in ‘87.

Complimenting the stripped saddle on this bike we have Benotto plastic handlebar tape.  Popular in the 1980’s for some unknown reason, Benotto tape offered absolutely no padding and hardly any more grip than a raw aluminum handlebar.  So if you wanted shock absorption you were out of luck but at least you could pick an option from among about 30 colors.

This bike is for sale from our museum collection. It’s a 56cm size, good for a rider 5’8” to 5’10” tall, and perfect for enjoying a retro-themed Eroica ride just a tiny step ahead of everyone else. Only $1499.

1993 Klein Rascal

1990 Klein Rascal

The Rascal was Klein’s 3rd tier mountain bike following the Adroit and the Attitude in the lineup. The ad copy suggested that the Rascal should be considered an “entry level” racing bike, but if you happened to watch or line up at an elite level NORBA race in 1992 you would have noticed Tinker Juarez had selected the Rascal as his racing bike. Tinker probably hadn’t been “entry level” since racing BMX bikes as an eight year old kid.

The real hierarchy to Klein’s off-road offerings involved weight and component integration. The Pinnacle was considered the base model because you could bolt racks to it and it had traditional rear dropouts. The Rascal eliminated those unsightly rack eyelets and shaved away a few grams of aluminum with rear-entry dropouts. The Attitude utilized proprietary headset bearings and integrated component elements like the Klein Mission Control bar while the flagship Adroit stood out with it’s massively oversized (but thin) aluminum tubing, brilliant paint schemes and integration from the handlebar to the fork tips.

Rockshox Mag 20

Deore XT M730

Syncros seat post

I liked Klein mountain bikes. They were pretty, even “plain” candy red ones like this Rascal. They were light, at least a pound or two lighter than the steel Specialized S-Works or Bridgestone MB-1 that I was riding in 1993. Above all, Kleins were modern with their electric paint jobs, integrated components and internal cable runs. If a computer company had been making Klein mountain bikes, it would have been Apple.

This particular Klein Rascal is for sale. It’s a 16” frame size, so it’s good for a rider between 5’1” and 5’6” tall. The original Deore XT equipment works great as does the vintage Rockshox Mag 20 fork. All yours for only $749

1997 Bontrager Privateer Comp

1997 Bontrager Privateer Comp

Take a trip back to 1997 on this Bontrager Privateer.

This is a light, nimble and efficient mountain bike. Nimble and efficient aren’t attributes ascribed to many mountain bikes these days. New mountain bikes have gone the way of the monster truck, with suspension and tire sizes that simply crush trail obstacles instead of making it fun to pick your way around and over the rocks and roots.
Consider this bike like you would a new “Gravel Bike”. Think of yourself riding out of your driveway, down the street a mile or so to the trailhead. Logging roads and “easy” trails are still in play on a bike like this one, not boring stretches that have to be endured until you get to the downhill (like on your 6″ travel full suspension enduro bike). When you do get to the stretch of technical trails you can relive the white-knuckle exhilaration that we all used to feel while riding our ’90′s era mountain bikes OR you can simply slow down and take the park trails at speeds that won’t get your (or the bike’s) abilities overextended.

XTR drivetrain

Turbomatic!

This old Bontrager is in great shape. It has fresh brakes and drivetrain parts (Shimano XTR), and the wheels and tires look new.  The fork is a rigid Tange Switchblade, a rare bit of ‘90’s cool that still fetches $500 on Ebay today.  You get an XTR seatpost, a Chris King headset, and a Selle Italia Turbomatic saddle.  My favorite.

Anyway, this is a medium size bike (18″) and will work best for a rider between 5’6″ and 5’8″ tall. It’s all yours for $1399

Vintage Eddy Merckx

62cm Eddy Merckx

A mid-‘1980’s vintage ride that’s modern enough for everyday use.

The heart of this bike is a 62cm (59cm top tube) Columbus SL steel tubing frame from Eddy Merckx cycles. This one was new in 1984 or ‘85. Instead of sew-up tires you get Mavic MA40 clincher rims and brand new Vittoria Rubino tires. The components are mostly Campagnolo Record from the era but you get the long-cage Rally rear derailleur that supports a more rideable gear range. There’s a Cinelli handlebar and a Nitto stem that will hold those bars in the right spot for someone extra tall.

Record & Rally

San Marco Regal

Centaur calipers

This being a bike for a tall (and probably heavier than average) rider we have brand new Campagnolo Centaur brake calipers which have lots more stopping power than vintage brakes and they still look just right. The chain, freewheel, cables and handlebar tape are all new.

This will fit a rider between 6’ and 6’4” tall the best. $1799.

Used Seven Odonata Titanium & Carbon Fiber Road Bike

60cm Seven Odonata $2399

How would you like a nice 18-pound titanium road bike for only $2399?
You’ll have to be fairly tall, this one is a pretty big 60cm size with a 58cm top tube. Let’s call it ideal for a rider between 5’11″ and 6’3″ tall.
The components are all in really nice shape. Highlights include a Shimano Ultegra 6700 group, Wound-Up carbon seatpost, Chris King headset, Torelli Aspect carbon wheels, Fizik Pave saddle, a carbon fork and an Easton aero (flat top) handlebar.

The Odonata model mixed carbon fiber with titanium in a unique fashion, going with carbon seat stays and seat tube for vibration damping and titanium in the rest of the frame for ti’s springy qualities.  We just like it for the “Hey, you got carbon in my titanium… No you spilled titanium on my carbon fiber!” Reeses peanut butter cup joke.

Anyway, the craftsmanship is great and the bike rides superbly.

1986 Fisher Mt. Tam

1986 Fisher Mt. Tam

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

‘Cause showing up on this bike would be awesome.

This Fisher Mt. Tam is in beautiful condition with fillet brazed Prestige butted steel tubes and a sweet Green Bay Packers paint job. Parts include Suntour XC shifters, seatpost, rear brake and pedals. Shimano Dura-Ace hubs with 600EX model cranks, cassette and headset. There is a Deore (deerhead) front derailleur, a Light Action rear derailleur (with Dura-Ace pulleys), Araya RM-20 rims and a Fisher bull moose handlebar.

The bike comes with new Schwalbe tires.

Bull Moose bars

Suntour Roller-cam brake with Overland brake cover

Tange Prestige steel

This is an 18” size, and will fit a rider between 5’6” and 5’8” tall the best. We’re selling it for the same MSRP as in 1986 (without 35 years of inflation) Only $1299.

Use Bridgestone MB-0 (MB-Zip)

1991 Bridgestone MB-Zip

We’re not going to try to sell you on this bike, you already know if you have always wanted it.

This is a 30 year old Bridgestone MB Zip. It was really the best production mountain bike that you could have ridden in 1991 and this one was treated really well over the intervening decades. It is an 18” frame size and will fit a rider between 5’7” and 5’9” tall the best. It is, by far, the coolest bike you could have when rolling up to the start of a modern gravel race or your neighborhood coffee shop. $1499.

Seven Resolute steel road bike

Used Seven with Sram Red $1750

This Seven road bike is a prize that Logan Owen was awarded when he won his race at Star-Crossed cyclocross a number of years back. It’s a new Seven Resolute steel frame and it hadn’t been put together until just recently. Logan decided to outfit it with the Sram Red drivetrain, a Zipp crankset, FSA handlebars and stem, new Fulcrum wheels, a Selle Italia saddle and Vittoria Corsa tires.

This is a 56cm size, good for a rider between 5’8” and 5’11” tall. $1750.

1981 Ciocc Moscow ‘80

Ciocc Mockba ’80

This is a steel Ciocc road bike made in 1981.
It has a 59cm seat tube with a 58cm top tube, a 100mm stem and 42cm Cinelli handlebars. The frame is made out of Columbus SL cromoly steel tubing. The components are Shimano Dura-Ace 7400 (6-speed, with downtube shift levers), the saddle is a Selle Italia Turbo, the pedals are the first generation Look pro models, and the tires are new Vittoria Rubino Pro clinchers.

Good fit for a rider between 5’10” and 6’2” tall. $1599

More photos are in the 1966 to 1985 museum section.

Used Colnago steel road bike

Colnago with Campy Record

Want a Colnago road bike but don’t want to walk all the way to Italy to get one? You can walk into our shop and roll out with one now.

This frame was a trade-in. It was made in the mid ’90′s of Columbus cromoly steel tubing, it’s a 56cm frame and it will fit a rider in the 5’8″ to 5’11″ height range quite well.

We built the bike with Campagnolo Record 10 speed equipment (sporting a Record triple crankset), it has hand built wheels made from Mavic CXP21 rims and Campy hubs. An FSA carbon seatpost holds up the Selle San Marco Regal saddle and you get a Cinelli carbon stem securing the handlebar.

While it looks like a bit of a vintage ride, the materials and design are quite modern.

You get a threadless fork and headset (that look old-fashioned) gearing that is pretty easy on the hills, and with all of the carbon fiber bits and pieces the bike end up weighing only 18 pounds. Oh, and it will only set you back $1400.

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

More photos are in the 1986 to 2000 museum section.

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. $1649

More photos are in the 1966 to 1985 museum section.

1990 American M-16

American M-16

A groundbreaking mountain bike from 1990.

American Bicycle Manufacturing’s M-16 (designed with 16” chainstays), in new condition right out of the box. There’s the raw aluminum frame and the Spinner cromoly fork, Shimano’s Deore XT component group (with thumb shifters and round chainrings), Interlock racing handlebars and an American stem, Mavic M231 rims, a Hite-Rite, WTB tires, all of the old goodies.

Just right for a rider 5’9” to 5’11”. $1199

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…

1989 Merlin titanium

54cm Merlin Titanium

This is a titanium Merlin road bike made in 1989.
It has a 54cm seat tube with a 54cm top tube, a 100mm stem and 42cm Modolo handlebars. The frame is made out of 3/2.5 alloyed titanium. The components are Campagnolo C Record (8-speed, with Ergopower shift levers and Delta brake calipers), the saddle is a Selle Italia Flite, the wheels are Campy Shamals and the tires are new Continental tubulars. The Time Racing Magnesium pedals are included, but we won’t reduce the price if you want the bike without pedals.
Good fit for a rider between 5’6” and 5’9” tall. $4000

More photos are in the 1986 to 2000 museum section.

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

More photos are in the 1986 to 2000 museum section.

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.

More photos are in the 1986 to 2000 museum section.

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.