Raise your hand if you have ever heard of the Superdrome in Frisco. Now raise your hand if you’re ever attended any of the races there? Hat’s off to those of you who are hip …
Read the full story »This bike was yet another lucky find in response to a screwball CL ad. The seller described the bike as an “Izuki Unisex Bike”. She posted no photos, and she refused to respond to email. The only way to communicate with her was by emailing her a telephone number because “she wasn’t going to deal with SCAMMERS”. Scammers?
Criminy!
So, out of both curiousity, and bike obsession, I sent her my telephone number. She called me a few days later. Her description of the bike piqued my curiousity, and I was off on a mission to Cedar Hill, TX. The woman that I met was the original owner and she said that she had purchased the bike in 1978 in Denver, CO……….
She told me that she had only ridden the bike for a few years, then moved to Texas and hung it in her garage for the next thirty years. When I saw it, I believed her. The bike looked nice, and I looooooove the color orange.
The bicycles’ decals are always kind of the watermark of a bike’s true condition. A vintage bike that is in good shape but that has decals that are peeling or disintegrating is not very appealing to me. These decals were not only in amazingly nice shape, but they were unusual and an interesting design element to the bike that reflected its’ Japanese heritage:
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Look at the lovely headbadge and lugged frame. The circular flower-like motif (I suppose that it could be a representation of the sun) is an image that repeats itself throughout the bike. See the little paper sticker that says “Japan” beneath the head-badge? How cute is that?
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Raise your hand if you have ever heard of the Superdrome in Frisco. Now raise your hand if you’re ever attended any of the races there? Hat’s off to those of you who are hip …
I believe I have found the best way to enjoy both of these publications – Velo News and Bicycle Quarterly. One is dedicated to sport cycling, the other to randonneuring and classic bicycles. Both are …
“I take some really good morale from knowing that I could attack and not have Contador follow me. Maybe he takes it the other way but I’m happy. For me it’s a fantastic stage win …
This is the “Before” part of my bike article.
I might be the last person on Earth to do it, but I’ve decided to take a vintage steel lugged-frame road bike and convert it to a single-speed, fixed-gear bike. …
Weekly Rides
Oak Cliff Spandex Ride (Sundays)
75208 (Sundays)
Onespeed Dallas (“Monday Night Mash”)
Tuesday Bike Night (“RIDE YOUR BIKE FOOL” – Tuesday Nights)
Tits Tuesday (Tuesday Nights)
Richardson Urban Bicycle Club (Most Thursdays)
Night Owl Mash (Thursdays)
Monthly Rides
Bike Workshop and Donation …
First of all, I think that most people would be surprised that you can put a Schwinn trike in the back of a Scion xB. All you have to do is lower the handlebars:
I know …
Saturday, July 3rd, 22 teams comprised of 200 or so riders began the 97th edition of the Tour de France. I’m not big on sports, really, but each year I am glued to my television …
A lot of this blog (and a lot of Dallas based bicycle blogs in general) are focused on very specific parts of the Dallas bike culture – mostly to do with casual, fixed gear riding …
I’ve been in the hunt for a touring bike with specific features for a couple of years now. I wanted a somewhat slack geometry, fender and rack eyelets, and I like shiny bits so my …
Like most of the bicycle bloggers out there, over the past couple of years I got back into bicycling and became just the biggest bike fool you have ever met. When my lovely wife was …
One of the things I like best about summer is the opportunity for summer foods and nothing goes better with tortilla chips, white fish or chicken than a refreshing mango salsa.
Before I get carried away …
Last night I repacked the rear wheel bearings on my Fuji road bike restoration project. I had never repacked loose bearings on any bike, much less any road bike. So I was very careful. Even though …
Or: another freaking Schwinn. I saw this on CL last night and the guy wanted $50 for it. I thought that it might make a nice matched pair for my (very) recently posted 1973 Schwinn Speedster.
They’re both in …
I bought this bike a few months ago in my largest CL mass-bike purchase to date. It isn’t the sort of thing that I usually do, but the guy’s CL ad had the usual requirements that …
Remember when we were kids, we would just jump on a bike and go? We didn’t care about the size of the frame or if the saddle was the right height; we just took off. …
The joy of riding a bike will change your life. But I cringe every time I see bicyclists in Dallas riding without helmets or on sidewalks. These common violations are not only illegal, they model …
This bike was yet another lucky find in response to a screwball CL ad. The seller described the bike as an “Izuki Unisex Bike”. She posted no photos, and she refused to respond to email. The …
Raise your hand if you have ever heard of the Superdrome in Frisco. Now raise your hand if you’re ever attended any of the races there? Hat’s off to those of you who are hip …
I believe I have found the best way to enjoy both of these publications – Velo News and Bicycle Quarterly. One is dedicated to sport cycling, the other to randonneuring and classic bicycles. Both are …
Weekly Rides
Oak Cliff Spandex Ride (Sundays)
75208 (Sundays)
Onespeed Dallas (“Monday Night Mash”)
Tuesday Bike Night (“RIDE YOUR BIKE FOOL” – Tuesday Nights)
Tits Tuesday (Tuesday Nights)
Richardson Urban Bicycle Club (Most Thursdays)
Night Owl Mash (Thursdays)
Monthly Rides
Bike Workshop and Donation …
