Before I was into photography and blogging I obssessed over bikes and bike parts. Two years ago I built up this De Bernardi Thron 57 (last year they made them), wheeling and dealing parts on Craigslist.org until I finally settled on this set up.
My bike is dirty, scratched, and worn because I ride it. When I left for college I sold my Jeep and since then have used this guy as my primary means of transportation.
This Fizik Arione Wing Flex saddle has received a lot of love from my bony ass including a seventy mile jaunt from Portland to the Oregon Coast. The wheel set, Velocity Deep V laced to Miche Primato Hubs, were the only parts I purchased new, the rest are used, including my Miche Pista Supertype Seat Post.
My Micha Primato Track Cranks make me move.
This summer my De Bernardi will be back on well cared-for avenues and busy intersections mobbing around the streets of NYC. I'm excited.
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ha I used to have the red (steel) version of that bike, also with a full Miche (mee-kay) groupo. I've had that seatpost on 3 different bikes, and still have a set of those hubs kicking around somewhere new in box.
Mine is steel too. how did you like it? What do you ride now?
Foster
Building up bikes is so much fun. I have my dad's old Peugot and just and old steel tube beater that is my everyday commuter-I'm too worried a nice bike would just disappear around here...
nice work on not babying it too much-bikes should be ridden!
good luck in NY, what will you be up to?
Brandon,
I am going to be interning for Ralph Lauren doing fashion concepting.
Greenjeans,
i am glad to hear that you commute via bike.
Foster
Foster,
Weird I thought the blue ones were alum. but then i went back and saw the luggs on yours.
I have a 78 paramount track bike, a weird motobaccon with serotta track ends brazed in and a custom Hot Tubes (it's what I'm holding in my picture).
Paramounts are awesome. How did you track that down?
Foster
amazing bike, im jealous.
Foster,
The paramount is a factory team bike that was traded to my friend Robert(pronounced Robear, he's french) in the early 80's. Robert rode it as a winter trainer and for roller races up to the mid 90's. I inherited it along with 80 pipes when he retired to NOLA last fall.
Nice bike.
Congrats on the internship.
What is "fashion concepting"?!
Lesli,
I'm Glad you like my bike. Fashion concepting is pretty much what you did with getting finding pictures of old sweaters and examples of vintage ones and putting them on a style boards so that designers and merchandisers can reference them in their work.
Foster
I am presently using a pair of Miche hubs on my Faggin track setup.
Photo here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/2553608267_e89e9c61b5_b.jpg
damn, thats a good looking bike. are those campy cranks?
Foster
This is beautiful! I was certified as a bike mechanic while living in the prairies and have never shook the love of them since..
Its a hard habit to kick. i probably will always be into bikes, especially as energy gets more and more expensive.
Foster
Foster,
Shame on you mistaking old logo Sugino cranks for Campa on that Faggin ;)
HOM,
your right, that is very depressing. i need to step up my crank game.
Foster
I'm gonna join in the look at my bike game!
http://tiny.cc/neqL5
Thats looks like a nice little steel machine. I'm kinda like to build bike too. It is so much fun!
this is a real piece of collection! I mean the bike, how is possible that you still keeping something like that? if you go to a museum or wel pawnshop, you discovered that the price for that piece of metal is great.
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