Some recent swap meet photos!

     Swap meet season is underway for us here at Via Bicycle. Here are some photos from this past weekend at the Lehigh Valley velodrome in Trexlertown, PA.  Good times, good people, neat bikes!

Sunrise

Cinelli time trial bike
Cool original Colnago jersey
Italian Masi
De Rosa track bike
Nice older Fuji road frame

Peugeot city bike

California Masi Gran Criterium
Hutch replica record bike
Moulton
Medici pista with Hellenic  stays
Schwinn paramount frame
Cool re painted Cinelli with frame modifications
Fat chance Yo Eddy in amazing atomic green paint with fork and stem!
Thai pedi  cab from the 1960's.
Seeotta pista frame

Immaculate Raleigh RRA pista
Limongi resto. Amazing job by Billy Rounds.

Orange Medici Track bicycle sold

Here is a beautiful orange Medici track bike. Perfect for the smaller rider. It was built with 650c wheels to accomadate a shorter inseam. 44cm seat tube, center to center, and a 51cm toptube. The bike has a 28" standover height. It have very little signs of use. it is beautiful with Campagnolo track dropouts.

Medici, given the same name of Italian aristocracy, were not produced in Italy but in sunny California. This bike is outfitted with Japanese components, like Sugino 75, 165 track cranks, Suntour double fixed hubs and Suntour headset. Fiamme Speedy tubular(glueon tire) rims. Not drilled for a brake. No pedals.

SOLD.

Stickler for details

I think I may have touched upon this before, but I often find myself taking pictures of bicycle details, rather than the complete bicycle. I guess I am more interested in the parts rather than the whole. I wonder if other people see these bicycles the same.

In looking through my vast collection of bicycle pictures I have, most are just a headlug here, brake hanger there, and not many complete bicycles. I have numerous pictures that I really have to use clues to figure out what the bicycle was that I photographed the seat lug cluster of.

Take this Mario Confente. This bicycle has become the holy grail of late 1970s road bicycle collectors. I have only these five pictures take at Cirque in 2008. I really wished I had more to look at, but only more detailed pictures. Seeing a completely built of bicycle is great, just look at the post from yesterday of Nick's Medici, but I really like the bits and bobs that go into it.

Medici turned into awesome

from fellow bicycle collector and one time Philadelphia resident Nick-
"It was a Medici. I wanted to make a bike that reminded me of all the things I like about various oldies I've seen or had but a bike that felt a little less fragile and irreplaceable as my old bikes. I designed the paint scheme and Anthony Mezzatesta and I painted it together. He filled some bottle cage and brake bridge holes as well as drilled and tapped for the headbadge and the flip/twist open oil port on the back of the headtube. I filed down and tapered out all the lugs. The Campy chainring bolts had just enough material to be tapped to accept the Stronglight domed chainring bolts for aesthetics. I have to tighten the saddle support until it pulls the seat down like that otherwise when I sit on it the saddle support gets plays and rattles a crumb which drives me bonkers. It's a new Brooks titanium sprinter that I hacked and stitched. "

Notice the beautiful Toni Merkins style stem, also known as the limp d$&@ stem.

What an awesome rider.

Here is a photo of the bike before the renovation.

Some recent bicycles that have come in for sale

here are a few bikes that have recently come up for sale at Via Bicycle.
I may do a more involved posting about the Schwinn, but they are all interesting bicycles.

Mid 1970s Peugeot PX-10.

Medici track bike. Petite, with 650c wheels.

PreWar Schwinn Continental. Sturmey Archer 3 speed.

1953 Schwinn Traveler. Sturmey Archer 3 speed and DynoHub.