Gmancycles

80’s Gerber Campagnolo – Columbus SL Road Steel Frame
ca 80’s Gerber – Swiss Roadframe and forks
beautiful lugwork – beautiful pantographs – Columbus SL tubes – Tange fork
• weight frame: 1953g
• seattube: 56,5 cm (center – top)
• toptube: 56,5 cm (center-center)
• bottom-bracket: 70 mm (italian)
• seatpost: 27,2 mm
Handmade in Italy by Campagnolo for legendary Gerber bikeshop, the leading swiss shop at the time. Headbadge reads Cycles Dotti Morges.
This sweet frame set is built up with a complete 6600 series Shimano Ultegra 9 speed triple, Mavic Askium Race wheelset, Velo Orange headset, Tektro long reach brakes, carbon seatpost with Fizik Pave saddle, carbon stem and Bontager bars, rides like a dream!!!

54cm Bianchi, this is a ‘70’s road bike converted into a single speed, all steel lugged frame that is a fading forest green. The parts list is as follows and she has been put together with great care and Phil Wood grease.

• Brand new Tange Levin head set with 1” to 1 1/8” stem adapter and 80mm bolt on stem, chopped and flopped bars with new cloth Cinelli bar tape.
• New in line Tektro brake pulls with new cables pulling a pair of vintage Shimano Tourney center pull brakes with Kool Stop pads.
• Wheel set is a pair of Flip Flop Bianchi Hubs laced to a pair of 28h Alex rims with new Kenda Kontender 700c X 23 tires and tubes pumped to 125 p.s.i.
• This baby is powered by a Shimano crank set 170mm length and a 46t Sugino chain ring hooked up to a 17t freewheel, no fixed cog at this time, but does have a new Z chain.
• Freshly packed Italian BB with new bearings and new spindle.
• The proud new owner gets to sit on a used leather Selle San Marco Concor seat and new Kalin seat post, comfy!
• New pair of Wellgo ultralight track pedals

58cm Sanwa “700”, this is a double butted Japanese made frame and fork from the early 80’s with great lugs and paint, it is powder blue with dark blue and grey pin stripes. The frame appears to be almost new and hardly ridden, no dings, no dents and barely even a scratch. She was stripped down and put back together with new and lightly used parts. Freshly packed Tange Levin head set, Bontrager stem at 90mm with a pair of freshly wrapped Bontrager drop bars. Brakes are newer Shimano R600 brakes with 105 brake levers. New VP sealed BB, Vintage Sakae SR cranks with Sakae SR 48t chain ring, new Z chain and new Shimano 18t freewheel. Laprade seat post with new WTB SST saddle. New Wellgo ultralight track pedals. Wheelset is brand new Xero Lite Deep V 32 mm Track Single Speed/Fixed Gear Wheelset with high flange Formula hubs etched Origin8, the front hub is 24h laced with black bladed spokes and the rear is 28h and is a flip flop, new tubes and new Continental Ultra Sport 700×25. Super fun ride and looks great.

Here is a ’69 or ’70 steel Italian Graziella Carnielli road frame size 59cm. Beautiful chrome lugs with Brev. Campagnolo fork ends and horizontal dropouts that are extra long. Below is a list of new and used parts used to revive this steel beauty into a single speed urban assault bike.

• No name polished 27.2mm seat post with a maroon suede Avocet NOS saddle NOS-nice!
• Older freshly packed headset with a 100mm stem pantograhed Italy, older drop bars that have been wrapped in old time red bar tape.
• Original Universal center pull brakes with levers, great stopping power, I was surprised! Newer cables and housing
• New Shimano BB 70×115 Italian threads with a Suigino 44t tooth crank set and a brand new Z chain
• New maroon anodized Alex Deep V rims with maroon Formula hubs laced with black spokes, tires are Kenda 700cx25, the rear hub is a flip flop with a 16t cog and lock ring-Nice!

Just took her for an 8 mile rip thru the streets and trails of SW Portland and she rides extremely smooth.

56cm early 80’s Ross “Gran Tour”, this is a lugged Japanese Ishiwata 4130 E-X triple butted steel frame and fork set. Comes with SR Laprade seat post and binder bolt, topped off with an older used Specialized race saddle. Quill SR stem with chopped and flopped bars with new bar wrap and older repacked head set. Drive train consists of a new Sram S100 Single speed crankset 175 arm length with 48t ring, New Truvativ splined BB, new Z chain, clean, crisp and silent, just attached a pair of lightly used Wellgo track style pedals. Wheelset is a pair of 36h Vuelta rims laced with stainless spokes to a pair of Vuelta cartridge bearing hubs with a 16t fixed cog and 18t freewheel. The set is wrapped in a new pair of WTB Solano 700×25 all black, has new tubes and are pumped up to 120psi, yummy and will rip up the asphalt! The machine is stopped by a pair of older (but o so nice) silver Dia-Compe brakes with new pads, cables and top bar mounted cross top pulls, just took her off of the bike stand and I am ready to release her into the wild.

Here we have a 55cm Specialized Allez, this is a frame from the 80’s made of Cromo Prestige tubing. The fork and frame are lugged and the fork crown has the stamped S, the frame is a faded red color and has no dings or rust.  All built up and she weighs in at about 18.5 pounds, nice and light!  The parts list is a follows and has all been put together with great care and a liberal amount of Phil Wood bearing grease.  Specialized BB 68×112 and very smooth, used Shimano 105 crank set and a brand new Origin 8 46t chain ring with new bolts.  The cranked is hooked up to a new Shimano 17t freewheel with a Sram PC-1 chain.  Almost new wheel set is a pair silver high flange Bianchi hubs, fixed/free, laced to a pair of silver Alex 28h rims, the rims are wrapped in a pair of new 700cx23 Continental Ultra Sport pumped up to about 120 p.s.i.  This machine is stopped by a pair of Black 80’s Diacompe “Royal Gran Compe” single pivot brakes with new cables, housing and cross top in-line brake pulls.  New Ritchey “Logic” headset with 1” Sakae quill stem and a set of chopp/flopp Signature handle bars wrapped in new black Thick n Zesty bar tape.  Laprade seat post with very nice older San Marco Era saddle.  Had this thing out on the streets today and she rips.

Here is my first cross build, I basically started with the frame, 56cm Miyata AlumiCross that was originally built in 1989.  Copy and paste this to check out the original bike.

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It has been stripped and rebuilt with all lightly used parts from a 2008 Surly Crosscheck.  This includes the Shimano Deore Wheel set, with new Panaracer 700×32 Crossfire tires, Tektro Oryx canti brakes with the Tektro brake pulls, Shimano bar end shifters with Tiagra front and rear derailers and a 9 speed Tiagra cluster. Pedals are Shimano 600 NOS with cages and straps. New Tange headset, new Chromo forks, Stem is 4 bolt Ritchey Pro at 100mm and a pair of Specialized drop bars with new Zebra bar wrap, seat is a Bontrager RL white and black which is the color scheme of the entire bike. Just rolled her off the rack for her maiden voyage and she is riding like a dream, super smooth and clean. Would make a great commuter as there is lots of brazeons and room for fenders and racks.

Here is a brand new build/conversion of a ’82 Lotus “Classique”.  The frame is 57 cm and was built in Japan using Ishiwata steel, fork is a black and the frame is a very cool shade of rose’ with nice steel lugs and thick horizontal dropouts.  Not a super rare frame but definitely not common, the top of the forks have a very detailed stamp of the lotus flower.  She is built up with a Shimano 105 headset, black Nitto stem, chopped and flopped bars with new thick n zesty bar tape and new pair of Cane Creek Crosstop brake pulls that are cabled to a pair of beautiful old school Diacompes that are competition grade (NGC 400 with 39-49mm reach). Sweet and period appropriate for the frame.  The drive train consists of a Superbe BB, Sugino 170mm GP crank set, specialized 46t chain ring, MKS track pedals w/chrome cages, KMZ chain and Shimano 16t freewheel and 14t fixed cog w/lockring.  The whole bike spins on a pair of wide flange Dimension hubs laced to a pair of medium V no name rims with stainless spokes with Kenda 700cX23 tires, the wheel set has not been ridden, YET!  One is able to sit on a leather Selle Flite with titanium rails and a fluted Laprade seat post, ummm yummy!

Beautiful Specialized Epic SE 58cm, this bike was built in 1995 using steel lugs and dropouts with carbon tubes and an aluminum fork for $400. Hardly a scratch on the bike and the paint is a perfect dual shade of burgundy.  The entire gruppo is shimano RX100; this includes shifters, derailleurs, brakes, brake pulls and hubs.  The Shimano RX100 hubs are laced to a pair of Mavic rims complemented by a pair of Vittoria Competition tires with a Kevlar bead, 700x25c.  The headset and BB are Specialized and the stem is Technomic with a nice comfy moustache handle bar wrapped in new black Cinelli bar tape.