Speedwell Titanium bicycle

 Speedwell(UK) built one of the first commercially available titanium bike framesets, along with the Teledyne Titan. Speedwell used a different blend of titanium than what is commonly used now on titanium bike frames, but back then they didn;t know any better. Luis Ocena infamously rode a Speedwell Titalite to a Tour de France victory over Eddy Merckx, but at the time, they really couldn't advertise it, as Ocena was supposed to be riding for Motobecane.
Link the the Classic Rendezvous page on Speedwell.

 Great looking seat cluster.

 Shame that the picture is out of focus. You can see it is very well finished.

 I love that this super light race frame and front and rear eyelets on the dropouts.
(Ed. I just looked at our Speedwell frameset we have here, and it does not have eyelets)

The welding, filing and finish work on this frame is amazing.

sold 54cm Teledyne Titan frameset

 Teledyne Titan.
serial number #14XX, so dates around 1974-1975.
54cm center to center seattube
56.5mm center to top of seat lug
56cm center to center toptube
120mm rear spacing.


Minimal use and looks great. The decals are a little ragged, but are mostly complete. the seat tube decal is the worst.
early Shimano Dura Ace headset.
included 2 Shimano toptube brake cable clamps and one chainstay cable stop.
$sold

Team Schwinn Paramount track bike

 With it business slowing down this winter, we have a chance to clean up and photograph some of our bikes we have up stairs. Here is a Team Schwinn track bike. Outfitted with lightened Campagnolo hubs laced to Schwinn Approved rims. Titan chrome steel stem and handlebars. Unicanitor track saddle. Still has the original Clement Seta track tires, but they are not holding air.

Some bikes & frames that are for sale

I will soon do individual post for each of these items, this is a preview of some of the items we will be selling in the near future. If you are interested in something beforehand, just email me at bikevilleatgmaildotcom . 

Teledyne Titan

(one of the first production titanium frames from 1970s)

Raleigh Tourist

1980s Kas Vitus bike

(Sean Kelly rode on this team, definitely not his bike)

super mint Raleigh Sports

early 1980s Bianchi Campione