I am kicking myself. I just ordered a new bicycle and I should have been scouring the internet for a Vintage Bicycle. These Vintages Bicycles are way more soulful. You have great fun up North.
Hey, Evan! I have a new (modern) bike I just picked up, also. The secret is to have modern and vintage bikes (and trikes, and....) As long as you can find the storage space. :)
Hey, how far you guys ride? And what’s your speed? Just curious since it looks really fun riding with vintage bicycles since I own a 1973 Colnago too. I wish I could join that fun rides too. I’m riding back here in Las Vegas by myself( too boring😢) but I need that exercise. Haha!! Have fun and be safe…Oh I’m a new subsciber now.
Thank you for sharing..BEAUTIFUL pieces of art on two wheels... those rides are awesomeness 🎯🎯🎯watching from queensland..Australia .. i enjoy collecting and riding..restoring vintage bikes...love the channel
Thanks very much for the kind words, and thanks very much for watching! I'd love to take a trip over there someday and get a crack at picking up a few of those beautiful, vintage, Australian-made bikes!
Frankly, I love vintage bikes and I have many. But when I ride with others who have modern bikes, I prefer to use my Felt VR40...just a low end road bike with hydraulic brakes...etc. between us, after buying it and adding stuff it cost me $ 1700, and I felt that my 1980s Trek 1200 rides the same.
I rode with different guys who had some of those bikes. One had a Cinelli in dusty rose that looked just like that one. Colnagos were pretty common back then, ss couple guys I rode with had Colnagos. Another fellow had a Tommasini. I can't remember if it had that paint scheme though. Probably not, but maybe. Another friend had a red Masi. My old bike had components that are represented here, a mix of Campy, and other high end makes from the 70s and 80s. My frame was custom built by a local frame builder, so it's not well known. That bike is long gone, though. Stolen decades ago. It's nice to see those bikes get some love.
@@bikestrikesrazors My road bike frame was built by Andy Gilmour. It had a combination of less common features that made it unique, and very easy to identify. It was a large frame. It was probably repainted by the thief, but it originally had white pearl paint with royal blue pinstriping around the lugs. The Gilmour decal was also royal blue. All of the brazing lugs are small. This is a sign that it was stolen decades ago, I can't remember if they had cutouts, but I think that some of them did. The seat stays were brazed to the seat clamp lugs. In other words, the tops of the seat stays end at the two seat clamp bolt lugs. It had vertical dropouts that were sawn down to the minimum. Andy sawed away all the cutouts from a pair of stock vertical dropouts. This was a racing bike, there are no touring bike amenities on it. The shifters were mounted on the downtube by a pair of brazed on shifter bosses. The derailleur cables were routed through the bottom bracket. There are two steel tubes brazed inside the bottom bracket shell that the cables are routed through. The rear derailleur cable continued on inside the right chain stay. Andy never complained about it, but it took him a long time to make that frame. I'm guessing that my request to route the cables through the BB was challenging and took extra time. Another bit of information about the bottom bracket is that the tubes inside it made it so you had to remove the bearing races on both sides in order to remove the crank spindle. I had the required tools to do it, so it wasn't that much of a pain for me to service the crank spindle bearings a couple times a year. But it would never be acceptable to a professional racing team mechanic. It must have been sold in another town because it would have been spotted here if it was still around. It was a large frame and I'd put a lot of miles on it. Combine that with the fact that I had Andy make it out of real light tubing, and it adds up to it having become a large piece of rubber by the time it was stolen. Its days as a useful performance bike, were long gone.
@@bikestrikesrazors, a old group I would fit right in with....but I'm more recumbent bike these days. Lol. As the weather cools in autumn, I'm looking forward to more of your ride vlogs of longer duration & beautiful scenery.
Well done … a great story … love your video production quality and professionally soothing narration voice. Aaron Kenny’s “Saving The World” (music at the end) is a nice touch.
Having just attended the CR swap & show last weekend, I have an appreciation for your video and ride with the CCLCG. If it's not a state secret, maybe you can provide general/generic meet up info for those of us coming from out of town for the monthly rides? 'Looks like part of it is on the ARBT, and (hopefully) not a lot of halfwheeling going on. Thanks!
I was there for the ride Saturday morning! The rides are mostly all on the ARBT unless we're doing something special. Albert always warns about half wheeling before each ride! The monthly rides are the third Saturday of the month and usually start at 9am. We leave from the parking lot in front of Starbucks at 2095 Golden Centre Ln., in Gold River. :) If you're on Facebook, you can join the "Camellia City Vintage Lightweight Cycling Club" page to keep updated. Albert also posts the rides on the "Classic and Vintage" bicycle forum on Road Bike Forums. :)
@@bikestrikesrazors Awesome, thanks for the info. I ditched FB the day they went public and am not a fan of social media in general, but the info provided above is a good starting point and I hope to come out and join a future ride. I saw the Saturday AM ride forming in front of the HoF, but I had a tight schedule for the day so I rode by and I think Alberto might have even asked if I was going on the ride, but I had to decline. I just rode to the end of the bike path towards Winters and back, but under the circumstances it was exactly what I needed. Age and work are not treating me well, but if I get rid of work, I think things will come around nicely. ;)
@@nplus1watches35 I had to work on Friday and Sunday. I did the morning ride on Saturday and since that's the only day I have time to take a longer ride, I went out to Winters with Joe. :) It would be great to have you along on a ride! Hope to see you there.
Absolutely, Brannan! Sounds like a beautiful bike! There won't be a ride in October as some of the club members are riding the Davis Bike Club's vintage ride this Saturday, so the next ride will be in November, likely the Friday just after Thanksgiving.
What an awesome ride on an incredible dedicated trail. You are so lucky to have that nearby. Did you do the full 100km roundtrip? It looked like you guys were sipping along…..what was your average speed? The vintage jerseys look super also.
Yep, Mark, we’re lucky to have that trail so close. Only did around 25 miles on the group ride at a comfortable, conversational pace of around 15mph. On the other hand, Rich & I usually do the entire trail (100km) once a week, when it’s empty during the week, at around 18mph-21mph. One week we take the trikes, the next, road bikes. It’s more fun blasting along on the trikes as you fly by the other cyclists, but lately we’ve been getting comments as we roll by implying that our VTX’s are battery/motor powered. If I was willing to slow down, I’d go back and set them straight. :)
@@bikestrikesrazors that’s a great one. People always ask me what kind of motor I have on my 700 as I zip by. Massachusetts has a 20 mph governor requirement on e assist and I can easily exceed that. I tell them I have a 70 year old motor charged with Gatorade and power bars. That trail you showed looked awesome and a great ride with your buddies. Taking my grandsons ages 7 and 9 out for a ride in a few minutes. Run them ragged and buy them an ice cream!
I forgot to mention, my brother has the Allegro Special I have talked about...and a late 50s or early 60s Oscar Egg. I may have to push him to restore them both
I'll send a link to a second hand bike shop in Accra. You can try contacting them to see if they have any vintage racing style bikes, or if not, they may know a better source. Thanks for watching!
With the seat up in the air like that Patrick , your nuts are going to be sore as. So many of these bikes i have ridden in my years of cycling and racing some i still have.
Hey, BSC! Yes, It’s a dedicated bike trail that runs along the American River in Sacramento, CA. It’s around 32 miles long, so you can take an up and back metric century without having to deal with cars. You can get a detailed breakdown in our video “The Complete American River Bike Trail”. Thanks for watching!
I have a 1980s appollo eclipse,its by no means a top bike but it has 12 gears and rides really smoothly and quick,is there any need to pay a lot of money for a bike,not really!
see me, mark s g. graybeal custodialmark retired. with old tires. bikes.given dozen. 6 left. trike an e mt bike in op. butt let free spirt 3 speed to our local Marfa public radio station , for personal an visitor use. my ol Hurculese not race but gud ride. Adam at bike shop had much an we will try to maintain a few.
The good old days of riding a 10 speed narrow tires, NOT! I rode enough miles on them and mountain bikes ( still have my Trek Mountain bike with Graphite frame ). Glad I said goodbye to them, no more neck pains, wrist and fingers going numb, no more shoulder pain, no more lower back pains, no more worries about balance issues, no more missing beautiful sites and always kicked back to enjoy life with my Catrike Dumont. No more worries about blood clots, next you ride a regular bike check between your legs and see the bruising.
Hey, Robert! Glad you found something that works for you, and the Dumont certainly is a beautiful trike! I realize that I’m lucky in that my body still allows me to enjoy riding both road bikes and trikes. Thanks for watching!
Guys, very nice bikes! Warm greetings to you from the Netherlands. I just did a 30km vintage bike trip
Nice! If you can get a few more vintage riders together over there, we’ll have a sister club in the Netherlands! :) Thanks very much for watching!
Love the classic bikes.
I am kicking myself. I just ordered a new bicycle and I should have been scouring the internet for a Vintage Bicycle. These Vintages Bicycles are way more soulful. You have great fun up North.
Hey, Evan! I have a new (modern) bike I just picked up, also. The secret is to have modern and vintage bikes (and trikes, and....) As long as you can find the storage space. :)
@@bikestrikesrazors I 'll make the space...HA.
And set-up correctly, a better ride!
Hey, how far you guys ride? And what’s your speed? Just curious since it looks really fun riding with vintage bicycles since I own a 1973 Colnago too. I wish I could join that fun rides too. I’m riding back here in Las Vegas by myself( too boring😢) but I need that exercise. Haha!! Have fun and be safe…Oh I’m a new subsciber now.
I had an OLMO in the 1990s and I think they are the best
Thank you for sharing..BEAUTIFUL pieces of art on two wheels... those rides are awesomeness 🎯🎯🎯watching from queensland..Australia .. i enjoy collecting and riding..restoring vintage bikes...love the channel
Thanks very much for the kind words, and thanks very much for watching! I'd love to take a trip over there someday and get a crack at picking up a few of those beautiful, vintage, Australian-made bikes!
So beautiful vintage road bike ride like a wind that's the joy of riding thanks for the video🚴
Thanks for watching, Edgar!
Frankly, I love vintage bikes and I have many. But when I ride with others who have modern bikes, I prefer to use my Felt VR40...just a low end road bike with hydraulic brakes...etc. between us, after buying it and adding stuff it cost me $ 1700, and I felt that my 1980s Trek 1200 rides the same.
İ bought one of them. İ am so happy!
Fantastic! Have fun!
I rode with different guys who had some of those bikes. One had a Cinelli in dusty rose that looked just like that one. Colnagos were pretty common back then, ss couple guys I rode with had Colnagos. Another fellow had a Tommasini. I can't remember if it had that paint scheme though. Probably not, but maybe. Another friend had a red Masi.
My old bike had components that are represented here, a mix of Campy, and other high end makes from the 70s and 80s. My frame was custom built by a local frame builder, so it's not well known. That bike is long gone, though. Stolen decades ago.
It's nice to see those bikes get some love.
Thanks for watching, Deezynar! I wonder where your stolen bike is now? Who was the builder?
@@bikestrikesrazors
My road bike frame was built by Andy Gilmour.
It had a combination of less common features that made it unique, and very easy to identify.
It was a large frame.
It was probably repainted by the thief, but it originally had white pearl paint with royal blue pinstriping around the lugs. The Gilmour decal was also royal blue.
All of the brazing lugs are small. This is a sign that it was stolen decades ago, I can't remember if they had cutouts, but I think that some of them did.
The seat stays were brazed to the seat clamp lugs. In other words, the tops of the seat stays end at the two seat clamp bolt lugs.
It had vertical dropouts that were sawn down to the minimum. Andy sawed away all the cutouts from a pair of stock vertical dropouts.
This was a racing bike, there are no touring bike amenities on it.
The shifters were mounted on the downtube by a pair of brazed on shifter bosses.
The derailleur cables were routed through the bottom bracket. There are two steel tubes brazed inside the bottom bracket shell that the cables are routed through. The rear derailleur cable continued on inside the right chain stay.
Andy never complained about it, but it took him a long time to make that frame. I'm guessing that my request to route the cables through the BB was challenging and took extra time. Another bit of information about the bottom bracket is that the tubes inside it made it so you had to remove the bearing races on both sides in order to remove the crank spindle. I had the required tools to do it, so it wasn't that much of a pain for me to service the crank spindle bearings a couple times a year. But it would never be acceptable to a professional racing team mechanic.
It must have been sold in another town because it would have been spotted here if it was still around. It was a large frame and I'd put a lot of miles on it. Combine that with the fact that I had Andy make it out of real light tubing, and it adds up to it having become a large piece of rubber by the time it was stolen. Its days as a useful performance bike, were long gone.
@@deezynar Sounds like a cool bike! At least the thief didn't get it in its prime.
Great fun. I’m grateful.😊
Thanks for watching, Linda!
Great looking bikes & a good fun ride.
Hi Douglas! Yes, it was a fun day. :)
@@bikestrikesrazors, a old group I would fit right in with....but I'm more recumbent bike these days. Lol. As the weather cools in autumn, I'm looking forward to more of your ride vlogs of longer duration & beautiful scenery.
@@D11Alpha We look forward to making those! Hopefully, the weather will comply. :) Too much extreme weather for one year already!
Very Beautiful.
Thanks for watching!
Love it ❤❤❤
If you're ever in the area, join the ride! Thanks for watching!
Well done … a great story … love your video production quality and professionally soothing narration voice. Aaron Kenny’s “Saving The World” (music at the end) is a nice touch.
Thanks very much for the kind words, Rob, and thanks for watching! Aaron Kenny is amazing!
Looks like a lot of fun. Makes me want my early 70’s 20” Stingray with the banana seat back.
I wish I still had mine, Dan- Although mine was just a Kmart knockoff! :)
@@bikestrikesrazors mine was a second or third hand find.
Nope, you can’t have it back. Sorry.
Nice video
Thanks for watching, Charl!
Having just attended the CR swap & show last weekend, I have an appreciation for your video and ride with the CCLCG. If it's not a state secret, maybe you can provide general/generic meet up info for those of us coming from out of town for the monthly rides? 'Looks like part of it is on the ARBT, and (hopefully) not a lot of halfwheeling going on. Thanks!
I was there for the ride Saturday morning! The rides are mostly all on the ARBT unless we're doing something special. Albert always warns about half wheeling before each ride! The monthly rides are the third Saturday of the month and usually start at 9am. We leave from the parking lot in front of Starbucks at 2095 Golden Centre Ln., in Gold River. :) If you're on Facebook, you can join the "Camellia City Vintage Lightweight Cycling Club" page to keep updated. Albert also posts the rides on the "Classic and Vintage" bicycle forum on Road Bike Forums. :)
@@bikestrikesrazors Awesome, thanks for the info. I ditched FB the day they went public and am not a fan of social media in general, but the info provided above is a good starting point and I hope to come out and join a future ride. I saw the Saturday AM ride forming in front of the HoF, but I had a tight schedule for the day so I rode by and I think Alberto might have even asked if I was going on the ride, but I had to decline. I just rode to the end of the bike path towards Winters and back, but under the circumstances it was exactly what I needed. Age and work are not treating me well, but if I get rid of work, I think things will come around nicely. ;)
@@nplus1watches35 I had to work on Friday and Sunday. I did the morning ride on Saturday and since that's the only day I have time to take a longer ride, I went out to Winters with Joe. :) It would be great to have you along on a ride! Hope to see you there.
Would an ‘87 Colnago meet the requirements for your group ride?
Absolutely, Brannan! Sounds like a beautiful bike! There won't be a ride in October as some of the club members are riding the Davis Bike Club's vintage ride this Saturday, so the next ride will be in November, likely the Friday just after Thanksgiving.
Here's a link to the ride's Facebook page so you can keep an eye out for any updates!
facebook.com/groups/913249166110191
What an awesome ride on an incredible dedicated trail. You are so lucky to have that nearby. Did you do the full 100km roundtrip? It looked like you guys were sipping along…..what was your average speed? The vintage jerseys look super also.
Yep, Mark, we’re lucky to have that trail so close. Only did around 25 miles on the group ride at a comfortable, conversational pace of around 15mph. On the other hand, Rich & I usually do the entire trail (100km) once a week, when it’s empty during the week, at around 18mph-21mph. One week we take the trikes, the next, road bikes. It’s more fun blasting along on the trikes as you fly by the other cyclists, but lately we’ve been getting comments as we roll by implying that our VTX’s are battery/motor powered. If I was willing to slow down, I’d go back and set them straight. :)
@@bikestrikesrazors that’s a great one. People always ask me what kind of motor I have on my 700 as I zip by. Massachusetts has a 20 mph governor requirement on e assist and I can easily exceed that. I tell them I have a 70 year old motor charged with Gatorade and power bars. That trail you showed looked awesome and a great ride with your buddies. Taking my grandsons ages 7 and 9 out for a ride in a few minutes. Run them ragged and buy them an ice cream!
@@markfeldman6509 That sounds like the best kind of group ride! Have an ice cream for me! :)
I forgot to mention, my brother has the Allegro Special I have talked about...and a late 50s or early 60s Oscar Egg. I may have to push him to restore them both
See if you can't get him to restore them both and then give you one of them! :)
I just sent him a text, our plan is now to restore them both then ride them.
@@evanking920 Nice! Let me know how it goes!
@@bikestrikesrazors Will do...
@@evanking920 Excellent!
It’s pronounced Freju assuming it’s built in the south of France
Thanks very much for the help! It is a French town, but the bikes are built in a factory in Italy. :)
@ it’s such a gorgeous bike it’s stunning!!
@@danstill4716 Thanks very much for watching!
i need a vintage bike,im in Ghana
I'll send a link to a second hand bike shop in Accra. You can try contacting them to see if they have any vintage racing style bikes, or if not, they may know a better source. Thanks for watching!
Here's the link, KOFI!
facebook.com/Accra2wheels/
With the seat up in the air like that Patrick
, your nuts are going to be sore as.
So many of these bikes i have ridden in my years of cycling and racing some i still have.
A level saddle makes everyone (and their sensitive parts) feel better. :)
is that road just for bikes?!?! ...how far does it go? ...
Hey, BSC! Yes, It’s a dedicated bike trail that runs along the American River in Sacramento, CA. It’s around 32 miles long, so you can take an up and back metric century without having to deal with cars. You can get a detailed breakdown in our video “The Complete American River Bike Trail”. Thanks for watching!
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I have a 1980s appollo eclipse,its by no means a top bike but it has 12 gears and rides really smoothly and quick,is there any need to pay a lot of money for a bike,not really!
I just searched for images of the Appollo Eclipse. Looks like a nice bike!
see me, mark s g. graybeal custodialmark retired. with old tires. bikes.given dozen. 6 left. trike an e mt bike in op. butt let free spirt 3 speed to our local Marfa public radio station , for personal an visitor use. my ol Hurculese not race but gud ride. Adam at bike shop had much an we will try to maintain a few.
The good old days of riding a 10 speed narrow tires, NOT! I rode enough miles on them and mountain bikes ( still have my Trek Mountain bike with Graphite frame ). Glad I said goodbye to them, no more neck pains, wrist and fingers going numb, no more shoulder pain, no more lower back pains, no more worries about balance issues, no more missing beautiful sites and always kicked back to enjoy life with my Catrike Dumont. No more worries about blood clots, next you ride a regular bike check between your legs and see the bruising.
Hey, Robert! Glad you found something that works for you, and the Dumont certainly is a beautiful trike! I realize that I’m lucky in that my body still allows me to enjoy riding both road bikes and trikes. Thanks for watching!
Love the classic bikes.