Vintage Road Bike Build

Vintage road bikes what to build with a 7 speed hub and a steel frame.

Vintage road bike build.

In this instructable i m going to repaint this vintage bike and turn it into one that looks way cooler and better suited for riding gravel here are a few thing. We build restore and sell classic steel bikes since 1996. Pulled a pair of wheels out of a skip a while back mavic gp4 tub rims on record hubs was. Bike is still a work in progress to get it back to original.

Many of these bikes are too good to throw away but nobody wants to. Thanks the pro s closet for reaching out. Vintage bikes are often 126mm and fixed gear track frames are 120mm. This bike along with the 7 eleven huffy are my dream bikes from my childhood so having 1 out of 2 ain t bad doug turner s giordana i bought my first real road bike in 1990 at a shop in columbia sc.

But everybody needs a somewhat dedicated bike to get around town grab groceries or just take a long tarmac joyride. The cellars and garages of america hold hundreds of thousands of fine road style bikes from the 1970s and 80s. Every bike build presents with its own set of unique requirements so it is well beyond the scope of this article to discuss all of the intricacies associated with a classic re build. Rebuilding and painting vintage road bike.

Vintage bikes are often 126mm and fixed gear track frames are 120mm. Many of these bikes are of very high quality but are going unused either because of older technology in the gearing or because their racing style riding position no longer suits the needs of their aging owners. Although many of us enjoy venturing off pavement on our modern road bikes manufacturers built bikes during the 60s through 80s for roads from that era when dirt and gravel roads were certainly more prevalent and the tight tolerances and aerodynamics shapes of sculpted carbon hadn t yet taken over. The troll works pretty well for most of those scenarios but it s built for long loaded multi terrain adventure.

130mm wide on road bikes and 135mm wide on mountain bikes. I ve had this old schwinn world for a few months now and it s badly in need of an update. Yes many road bikes from the 60s 70s and 80s can make fine gravel bikes even if we joke that gravel cycling wasn t invented at the time. Our specialty is restoring vintage road bikes to their full glory.