Quote Originally Posted by Celtic Cyclist View Post
The boys and girls still terrorize the natives every Saturday morning. The ride has gotten so big it's been broken into three smaller groups.
Geeeee.... I remember my bike from back then. It got stolen from in front of the Cal Music Building in 1980 after being my get-to-class bike at UCSB for four years and doing a mess of races in high school. My racing bike in college was a Bob Jackson frame, with Dura Ace derailleurs, a Dura-Ace crankset, ultra-budget British pedals (with rat-traps of course), and a very unusual Shimano gooseneck and handlebars combination that I *Loved* . Dura-Ace brakes... I build the wheels, the rear was a Campagnolo hub four-cross, wired and soldered spoked to mavic aluminum rims, and brace yourself......I used sew-ups! Does anybody use sew-ups any more? I'm a big guy so I actually used a cheap mm atom low-flange hub on the front wheel and radially spoked it to another mavic rim.

Higher pressure, low profile tires came out in 1977, so I replaced the sew-up hubs with new ones and ran the high-pressure, presta valve tubes until the bike got ripped off.

My original get-around bike frame was an old Peugeot Reynolds 331 main tube job, kind of a cheapie, but it was stiff enough for me except for the forks, thus the radially spoked wheel, which I tried out on the Peugeot before doing the same on the Bob Jackson.

Wow....flashback to college. I sucked as a racer, so I spent a year riding in the van being the wrench for the college team and worked at the UCSB bikeshop for two years.