u/ElStellino

This is a frame I bought for little that I want to repaint and to dress up.

I was wondering what it is, though, because if it has an identity, I will respect it.

I am based in Spain so it may be some Spanish or French frame.

Think of Razesa, BH, Orbea, Zeus, Laiz, etc.

No VIN on the BB shell as far as I can see, no name dropouts.

Three nice cable stop along the top tube, 26.2mm seat post, 29mm seat tube. One bottle cage fitting only.

58×57cm.

Pretty anonymous, just Ofmega plastic shifters.

3026g with sealed BB, headset, seat post bolt and friction shifters on.

Can anybody help, please?

Got this Campagnolo derailleur today in the mail, and... it turns out that the seat post of my bike is bigger. 29.4mm, but this one is for a smaller tube, measuring the clamp in its most "diameter" point, it's about 27.5mm.

Oh, 9€, btw, I can send it back free of charge, but I am wondering if it is worth more.

Which Campagnolo model is? Which year more or less?

Thanks

Edit: I decided to send it back. I will never find over here a 1950 or 1960 bike in size 58 or 60, so I will never use it.

I love the applied indexes, but what an awful choice with the silver hands on a silver dial!

Do you have a vintage Citizen too? Or CTZ, as the crown says!

Post a photo of it along!

I found this extra handlebar clamp and tried to fit the C8.

Well, it's perfect, light tint too, very "dynamo" at full speed (SFT70 3000K at 1%)

I used the lanyard to secure it to the handlebar: it doesn't come off easily, but if it does, I'd rather not smack it on the ground.

The blue Cree XPG350 is already taken off.

Note: lanyard and magnet!

I don't even know the size of the frame, but it won't be small with 22" wheels. I am 6'2", 54. …And it's not black! Only thing I don't like is the big chainring.

Is this of a good make? The price is what it is, there aren't many 22s around and Spain isn't the US, BMXs at 25€ simply don't exist 😢

https://wallapop.com/item/bmx-plateada-1255315725

I add some pictures in case the link is geoblocked.

Thanks!

My 1979 racing bike frame is a bit big for me.

Standing, the top tube touches my crotch, and I've always felt it a bit "long".

As I've been accesorizing it since when I got it, I'd like now to get a new frame and fork and transfer components over.

But which size should I go for?

Unfortunately vintage bicycles over here are always tiny (52 or so) and the bigger ones are sparse in the country, I would have to buy a frame online and getting it shipped.

I'm 190cm tall (6'2"), my inseam is about 89cm, which is very close to the 86cm of the top tube height of my 60×60 frame.

I've always felt it long, meaning that I have to lean a lot, but I don't find the saddle too distant from the pedals, on 172.5 cranks.

I attached a photo of the bike to show how the seat post is.

Thanks in advance

edit: now with correct measures!

Because of the heat and subsequent sweat, my AE1200-specific tobacco leather band started getting multi shade, so I decided to get an A159 bracelet: it's as light as the watch, so it remains balanced, I remember from the 80s that it was very compfottable (it still is) but on Aliexpress I couldn't work out on photo it was so narrow.

The AE1200 specific straps and bracelets are 18mm at the lugs, widen to 24mm and then taper down. This doesn't, it widens to just 20mm and it visually looks narrow, because it bloody is.

I wish there was a bracelet exactly like this with proper width, now it looks bad because too narrow, but it has in my opinion a very fitting design.

I tried looking for 24mm wide bracelets to dremel down to 18mm at the lugs, but none have this design, none is light, and recent fashion wants straight bracelets: on this watch, it would look bad even more.

What do you think?

I will keep it until the heatwave finishes, then put on the original bracelet, I think.

I want to repaint my bicycle. I was thinking of gloss red or yellow, one color, but if you have any cool livery suggestions, please share!

Something that goes with my tan sidewalls, pls. No problem for saddle or bar tape.

Anyway, here's the question. Where can I buy here in Europe (Amazon) or locally (Spain) good paints to use for my steel frame?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: this bike isn't factory painted. It was originally pink and the previous owner spray painted it in black to sell it faster. While photogenic, it isn't of a great finishing. And perhaps, after so many people getting tricked, I will replicate those white bands with rainbow stripes over a different, brighter color, hopefully applied better than this 🙂
It isn’t an expensive exotic either: its make is AJAR, made in Portugal, and I reckon it is a mid-tier bike. Routed back brake cable, Gipiemme dropouts, rear ones with wheel adjustment, slender tubing but not butted. The components aren’t that expensive, although of good quality.
Sulky CLB caliper brakes, Sulky drilled levers - both unknown to me, but work very well and I like them.
It had a Simplex trasnmission of which both delrin derailleurs exploded: the front one to the previous owner, the rear one to me, so it now has a Shimano no model front derailleur and a Campagnolo Centaur 10 speed rear derailleur (and Simplex shifters to be swapped with Campagnolo Record ones once I paint the frame).
Shimano MF-TZ500-6 freewheel cogs (but I want to put a 7 speed period correct Sunrace with the same 14-28 range I found second hand - still to buy it)
Gurpil hubs, Rigida alloy wheels, stainless steel spokes.
A cheap Aliexpress saddle, a French made handlebar.
It is already a frame with which I can experiment, and the idea with this bicycle is to "dress it up" until one day I will find a nicer unmolested and unpainted frame where transferring everything on.