Bikes from Cirque, Part 4- Hi E bicycle

Larry Black owns this Hi-E road bike that was on display at Cirque.  It is an amazing display of innovation in lightweight technology, and a forerunner to modern lightweight bicycles. Harlan Meyer built this bike.

HERE is Classic Rendezvous's webpage on HI-E.

1950s Universal front brake.

 These Hi-E hubs are still the lightest in existence today. Note the spoke lacing and minimal skewers. (The front spokes are aluminum and are double ended threaded, laced through a spoke hole then uses a proprietary nipple, tensioned with a special tool.)

 Dropouts joined to the frame.  The rear hub is Hi-E as well.

Drillium on rear derailleur- (stock Huret 3rd Generation Jubilee rear derialleur).  This shot also shows a side angle of the rear dropout joining the seat- and chain-stays.  It's also interesting how the rear derailleur housing runs inside of the dropout.

Cranks and bottom bracket shell. (Hi-E custom made cranks with Lambert/Viscount chainrings screwed to them. Simplex Prestige front derailleur. This is the first time I have ever seen the Hi-E cranks in person)

Bikes from Cirque, Part 3- Weigle

There were many great J.P. Weigle bikes at Cirque.  I overheard one person say that "there should be an award for best Weigle" during the award ceremony.  There were so many that it was hard to choose one favorite.  This post will highlight some of his bikes and their unique and beautiful features.

 Built in taillight.

 Custom front rack nicely mounted to Paul new racers.

Sorry for the out-of-focus shot, its the best that I have of this entire bike. 

Another integrated taillight with a interesting cable hanger and Mafac Competitions.

 Fork crown detail.

 A wider shot of the rack and lights that I posted before.

jokes!

Bikes from Cirque, Part 2

 Beautiful 1974 Masi Gran Criterium, owned by Mike Kelly.  This bike has a lot of cool little drillium touches and details.

 Painted and milled cranks and front derailleur.

 Painted 3T stem.

 Intricate drillium on the rear derailleur.

 Milled and painted brake levers.

Milled and drilled brakes.  The milling on the brake arms where the pads bolt on is especially neat.

Milled Campagnolo seatpost, with seatcluster lug detail.

Bikes from Cirque, Part 1

My name is Aaron Popelka, and I am a mechanic at Via Bicycle.  I will periodically be making guest posts on this blog to supplement Joel's regular posts.

This past weekend I accompanied the Via team to Cirque for the Sunday show and swap meet. I took many more photos, and will be posting more detailed photos and descriptions of bikes in the coming days, but here is a sampling of some of the bikes that were there that were particularly interesting or beautiful.

J. P. Weigle

Super clean Mario Confente track bike in the hotel lobby, owned by Wayne Bingham, organizer of Cirque.  I wish I could get a drive side shot, but the couch was in the way.

An early Hi-E lightweight road bike owned by Larry Black.

 Pristine Paramount headlugs.

Dual headlights and a nice rack on a J.P. Weigle.

Alex Singer constructeur bike.

Cirque Du Cyclisme this weekend

I will be speaking at Cirque this year and highly recommend you to attend, if not for my presentation on swap meets or the comradarie of like-minded bike nuts, then at least for the swap meet!


Information HERE!

Items we recently sold

I am not the best at updating the website, and I am constantly reminded about that. I have said it before, but the upkeep of the website and this blog is almost entirely done after work hours. So blog posts are written before I go to work and website additions are worked on in the evenings after I eat dinner. As backward as it might seem, what works well is customers emailing lists of that they are searching for, and below are some items sold recently that were never listed, just located after someone emailed looking for them.

 New old stock Cyclo Oppy derailleur and shifter and cable.

 Schwinn Paramount front hub.

 new old stock large flange Campagnolo Nuovo Record hubs.

early Columbia 2 piece cranks.

 Schwinn Sprint chainring set, for early Schwinn Varsity.

Gold Mafac Competition engraved brakeset.

new computer- Campagnolo logos

Sorry for the delay in posts, we recently received a new work computer and I'm in the process of transferring information from the old one to the new one, organizing it, and getting used to a PC again, it has been a couple years.

Below are some Campagnolo logos I have found while transferring photos. Some images are pictures I took, and some I did not take but I no longer have any idea where the original image came from.