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Sekai 500

54cm Sekai 500 blue sparkle frame
fancy new wheels and drivetrain
- silver Velocity aero rims
- Suzue pro-max hubs
- 51/19 (70.5″) drivetrain
rear reflector, plastic seat & handlebar grips from a blue Huffy
single front brake w/ suicide lever
Raleigh 175 mm cranks
blue eggbeaters
randonneur bars

Sekai 2400

This bike is a fixed gear w/ clip pedals, 700c rear wheel and 27″ front wheel. It’s also got the leather seat from the defunct Schwinn Continental. The fork broke, so I replaced it with a red one of nearly identical description. Now this bike has a new Dimension hub, which is the cheapest fixed hub I could find in a 36 hole. It’s black to match the rim.

big old pictures of this bike

Peugeot Winter Cruiser

Sturmey-Archer X-FDD Drum/Dynamo front hub
Sturmey-Archer FW 4-speed rear hub (’59)
silver dyads
Red Mallet M pedals
shiny steel fenders
InoLight 10+ LED front light
round dynamo-powered rear light
Carradice longflap bag
Brooks professional saddle

Trek 520

The touring bike I bought for riding from Seattle to San Francisco.

pink Candy-C pedals now
35 mm Panaracer tires
Brooks conquest saddle
Tubus cargo rear rack
Tubus tara front rack
tektro “‘cross” levers
big double kickstand
Shimano LX components
compass/bell
SKS fenders
three bottle cages
now with matching front/rear red Ortliebs

Some photos of a tour on this bike.

Some blog entries about the first 4 days of the tour.

Trek Antelope 800

I shouldn’t have taken these right before going to the Sandpoint Bike Swap, because now these pictures are inaccurate.

I found this bike beneath the back porch of my house, apparently left by former tenants. It still has weak points, but it’s getting pretty usable.

7 speed
shifters & derailers are the shimano stuff I found it with, except the left shifter, which is now a shimano bar-end.
24/40/48 chainrings (less bent than the old ones)
175 mm cranks
one-sided pedals. One of them has a plastic clip without a strap on it. It’s the right one.
dented 26×1.25″ Araya wheel on the front, some other wheel from the free rack on the back.
cheap slick tires

Fixes this bike needs:

new front wheel. (I replaced the rear one already)

Schwinn Continental

(dead)

I bought this bike for $75 on Craigslist. It’s apparently from 1971. I’ve cleaned & greased most of the bearings and replaced some. The rear tire has been replaced, as it was crumbling. I have a replacement for the front one too, but I haven’t put it on there yet. I assume that most of this bike is original, except for the seat, which I am not sure about. I think I might have seen a similar Schwinn with a seat like this.

10 speed
27X1″ steel wheels

Changes since these photos:

I put the front generator light back on after the cateye light I got at the bike swap was stolen. The generator light is real bright, and I got it mounted at an angle where it works quite well, but its interface with the front tire makes a suspicious noise. This one will be a lot harder to steal, and definitely adds to the retro points for this bike.
I mounted a big orange rectangular rear light via a sheet metal strip on the brake mount bolt.
This bike’s fork was bent beyond ridability when Amanda crashed it. Almost half of the spokes nipples on the front wheel were also broken, so this bike is out of commission for now.