BOBCFL: 1980's Bottecchia Campione del Mondo

and now for something really sweet

every time i see a bottecchia i think of my main man b-det and his poor bottecchia frame...  he rattle canned it, ground off the cable guides, and then beat the shit outta it.  good memories from those days :)

anyway, this bike looks GREAT GREAT GREAT.  digging the red tape, black stem, white frame, red tyres combo (so much i might cop that for a mountain bike build)

and fair price, especially for LA.

mnm mm, do want

BOBCFL: Walter Croll Road Frame

Price is on par for a great road frame in the NYC...   I am a big fan of Croll's work and he's on the short list of people I'd want to make me a road bike.  Here's a pretty purple one for $400.  Good price for a popular size, carbon fork, and you know it'll last

BOBCFL: Olmo Road

Olmooooo

love these tight-wheel-based bikes.  love love love

here's a nice 70's example!

BOBCFL: 1989 Cinelli Super Coursa

Here's a debatable price for a classico italiano.  Just wanted to put this up in case you were wondering if the Ron Cooper was a good buy.

BOBCFL: 1983 Trek 630

Or you get over your silly desire to have an expensive, Italian-wearing, eye catcher and buy this bike.  If anyone actually wanted my opinion, I'd take the $490 I was going to drop on the Clements and buy two of these

It's all love

BOBCFL: Ernie Clements

OK.  so you'll be all like 'Dude look at how much worse for wear the paint is'
i'll be all like 'Dude! Both are riders. Once the paints flawed in a couple spots, to a collector, it needs a respray.  Medici guy priced his bike in what many would consider collector's territory.  To turn either one of these bikes, the medici or the clements, they'd need a respray

Less than $325 in price (asking $490), around 1/3, and MUCH cooler pedals if you ask me.  Both in cali.  The cost of cleaning up medici's rusty fork (urban dictionary that one) would be the same as replacing the Clement's RD, And the stem and seatpost of the Clement's just needs a little elbow grease, prolly'll show ya how it's done.  And the rims on this Clements are pretty f'ing sweet.

But I digress

Ad Text:
64cm Ernie Clements, Reynolds 531, Campy, Fits TALL riders

This frame was designed by the world famous racer Ernie Clements (3 times British national road champion 1943, 1945, 1946, two Nationals seconds, and a Worlds and Olympic appearance.)

The frame features a lightweight Reynolds 531 frame, Reynolds 531 fork, nice steel lugs, and Campagnolo parts throughout including the hubs which are Engraved Campy, Campy headset, Campy Strada 175mm cranks, Campy derailers, and Campy friction shifters. The brake levers were upgraded to modern Shimano Rx100 aero brake levers for better control. The bike has a 100mm engraved Cinelli Stem & Cinelli Bars, Vintage Ambrosio white bar wrap. The bike has 12 speeds. Fits large riders aprox 6'3" to 6'6". The cross bar/ stand over is 35 3/4 inches high. The frame is measured square at 64cm x 64cm and the seat tube is a tall 66cm measured center to top. The frame is nice quality 531 tubes with pretty lugs and paint has has some small scratches, and the Clement logos are in decent shape, but peeling up a little bit in places. The Color is white and ocean blue, kind of a dark teal color. The saddle matches and is an Italian vintage blue Selle Suede model in good condition. The seat post is Campy fluted as well. The wheels are 700c clincher Mavic Open 4CD classic boxy style rims, and the quill pedals are nicer Japanese KKT Pro with XL silver cages and toe straps. $490 firm. 

PICS!

BOBCFL: 1981 Medici Pro Strada

OK, read a couple of my past posts.... it's all cupcakes and rainbows....  i'm not in a cupcake and rainbows kind of mood

So here's an '81 Medici, dripping in campy nr, soaking in the california sun.  First let's start with some text and pics.

(everybody loves a longwinded pitch)


For sale is a 58cm Medici Pro Strada produced in 1981 or 1982 in Los Angeles California. The bike is made of Columbus SL double butted tubing with Rexart investment cast lugs and a beautiful deep metallic blue paint that shimmers beautifully in the sun. The fork is fully chromed and shows very little oxidation on the fork blades. There are really beautiful little details on the bike like painted yellow lug windows on the rear of the fork crown, headtube and seattube lugs and the inside of the lugs where the brake bridge is brazed to the seatstays. The bike itself is very responsive with a fairly short wheelbase and nice tight geometry, but is really comfortable to ride for many hours at a time.

There is a good amount of lore surrounding the Medici brand, as well as world class frame builders who have also been associated with the brand (Mario Confente, Faliero Masi and Brian Baylis). Medici’s seem to be broken down into classes in regards to their paint and build quality. If you are lucky, you got one that was produced on a “good day” for Gene Simonetti and Mike Howard (The Hair Bandit) at their shop in L.A. This bike was without a doubt produced on one of the good days by the looks of the high quality paint and overall construction of the bike.

There are no dents, dings or any sort of damage to the bike. There are however some small scratches from normal use present here and there, but nothing going down through the paint to the steel. The most chipped paint as you would probably guess is found on the drive side chain stay from dropping the chain and or general use. I have taken very good care of this bike since it has been in my possession, always stored indoors, never been ridden in the rain and always maintained properly. This bike needs nothing. This classic is absolutely ready to ride.

Email me for more info or for additional pics. Cash or PayPal and local pick up only please. Now for the lame stuff. If you’re a scammer don’t waste your time or mine because it’s not gonna happen.

Specs are as follows:

Frame and Fork: Columbus SL
Headset : Campagnolo Nuovo Record
Brakes : Campagnolo Nuovo Record with original yellow housing
Bottom Bracket : Campagnolo Nuovo Record (Italian threaded)
Crankset : 170mm Campagnolo Nuovo Record double with original dust caps. No hairline fractures present where the crank arm meets the spider
Deraileurs : Campagnolo Nuovo Record both front and rear (both have new cables less than one month old)
Shifters : Campagnolo Downtube shifters (friction only)
Pedals : Sorry no pedals are included
Hubs : 36 hole Campagnolo Nuovo Record
Skewers : Campagnolo
Rims : 36 hole silver Mavic Open Pros built 3x with DT Swiss 14g double butted spokes
Tires : Vittoria Zaffiros 700 x 25c about 200 miles on them
Freewheel : 6 speed Regina Oro
Chain : KMC
Dropouts : Horizontal chromed Campagnolo
Saddle : Viper
Seatpost : 27.2 Kalloy
Stem : 100mm 3t with Medici Pantograph
Bars : 40cm 3t Gran Prix with new Fizik tape


Top Tube : 57.5 c-t-c
Seat Tube : 57 c-t-c, 58 c-t-t
Headtube angle : 73°
Seattube angle : 73°

$825 OBO 

OK, first go up and click on the seat cluster, then come back

This seller better be willing to haggle based on this picture alone. he states:

There are no dents, dings or any sort of damage to the bike. There are however some small scratches from normal use present here and there, but nothing going down through the paint to the steel. The most chipped paint as you would probably guess is found on the drive side chain stay from dropping the chain and or general use. I have taken very good care of this bike since it has been in my possession, always stored indoors, never been ridden in the rain and always maintained properly. This bike needs nothing.

But you can clearly see what looks like a stress chip in the corner of that seat lug.  and look at the wear on this seat.  and for fork is pitted. and wear on the top tube near the crown.  and look at that scratch on the seat tube.... looks pretty deep to me.  It's obvious this bike is a rider, which is a good thing in my opinion.  But as a rider it is really out of it's fair price range.  I'll go on to prove my point in some coming posts, but this is me being honest.  I understand 'it's cali' and 'it's campy' and hype hype hype but 4/5's of a g is too much.

i'm not here to make friends. just sayin

BOBCFL: 1985 Trek 660

Man I love these bikes.  The fastback seat stays cluster, beautiful dropouts, and made in the States!  Kinda always disliked the lugs, but really I'd still love to find one in my size one day.  Rumor is there are a couple 68cm 600 series Treks from the era but I've yet to see any proof of that.

 It's a shame it's been rattle canned so you can tack on a least another 75 for a new powder coat.  I hope this lovely bike gets a good home.

BOBCFL: Nagasawa Road Bike

Not really a big fan of any of this, but it's got all the makings to make a collector drool.  Complete c-record w pretty paint and low miles.

Price is ludicrous, aka NYC normal.  The way it's clamped in (what no cloth?) really makes me worry about the current owner... this has bad buy written all over it.

I'm not going to bother grabbing all the photos from that flicker stream cuz a simple google search will provide you with hours of Naggy's porn

BOBCFL: 1992 Specialized Allez

This one's hitting all the right buttons for me.  Mutted up components, sharp color selection, and it's steel.  Plus I have a soft spot for the brand for some reason, probably because they commissioned Miyata for some of their work in the early eighties.

Nice fork from the looks of it as well.

BOBCFL: Mike Kowal Custom Road

While it's a shame the pictures aren't any nicer, the bike is made by a classical English frame builder and decked out in Campy.  Fair price indeed!