Lugged steel

Check out the lugs on this French beauty, Twist.

God, I wish I had a job....

$150 for a piece of iron?

Manganese-molybdenum alloy steel. That frame is 31 years old, and will still be beautiful-- and being ridden-- when all of today's aluminium and carbon fibre frames are rotting in landfills.

I love cycling.

Sweet. Too large for me. I never scene a Reynolds sticker in French.

bLuE oRdEr wrote: Check out the lugs on this French beauty, Twist.

God, I wish I had a job....

I'd love to fork that

I could pump that all day long.

twist wrote: Sweet. Too large for me.

I'm a little big for her-- they all say that-- but not too big, so we'd have a lot of fun together, that little French beauty and I.

I love 1987 wrote: where is the frigging throttle on that thing????

That's the reason of Blue's "fun", I suppose.

$590.

And then I saw this...

Comrade Shampanyov wrote: And then I saw this...

Reserve not met.

At $8,100. Reserve not met...

FTSH

Rolling museum of crap components. My bike mechanic says that the best improvement in bicycle technology has been the brakes. With the crap Diacomps I have on my French Steel I tend to agree.

Man, I wish I had 8K to blow on bikes. Let's see

Merlin Ti frame racing with campy Record

Schwinn Mini-Twinn (authentic not a homemade)

3 sets of the top o line Turbocat lighting system (night rides are the best

20 lb dual suspension hybrid for commuting

get my Trek 520 completely overhauled and set with bigger panniers

overhaul Wifey's Cannondale R 400 new wheels also

Overhaul Fisher Gemeni tandem

New set of wheels for my Trek 2200

beer and a bag of grass with the rest of the money

Then again....Europa Cycles sold a carbon fiber tandem to a couple form Illinios. Total weight less than 30 lb.

WTF?!?!?!?!?

weird