Today the family scrap metal merchant stopped in front the von Zach residence and this fell off his lorry:
My newest foray into the Reich of the pitted chrome, the perished slugwalls, and the peeling stickers. Oh don't we all adore it?
This is what it looked like roughly ten minutes after it had landed:
Gone is the hideous rubbish made from a material they call "plastic", the heater pipe insulation used on the handlebars, and the various reflectors the poor thing was festooned with. Safetey, you know.
Pumping up the tyres was all that was needed to make this bike fully functional! I can't understand why people just toss something like this.
The rest was just two hours of elbow grease:
Not sure how old it is. It's on 27" Rigida Superchromes and has Weinmann sidepullers. It is pre Shitmano era, the chain twisters are by Simplex. The chainset looks rather newfangled though (I am old enough to shrug, when someone says 'vintage' in conjunction with stuff from the 80s. For me, that's newfangled), but it could have been added at some stage.
What do the experts say? 70s? 80s?
My newest foray into the Reich of the pitted chrome, the perished slugwalls, and the peeling stickers. Oh don't we all adore it?
This is what it looked like roughly ten minutes after it had landed:
Gone is the hideous rubbish made from a material they call "plastic", the heater pipe insulation used on the handlebars, and the various reflectors the poor thing was festooned with. Safetey, you know.
Pumping up the tyres was all that was needed to make this bike fully functional! I can't understand why people just toss something like this.
The rest was just two hours of elbow grease:
Not sure how old it is. It's on 27" Rigida Superchromes and has Weinmann sidepullers. It is pre Shitmano era, the chain twisters are by Simplex. The chainset looks rather newfangled though (I am old enough to shrug, when someone says 'vintage' in conjunction with stuff from the 80s. For me, that's newfangled), but it could have been added at some stage.
What do the experts say? 70s? 80s?
