Here are the tubing stickers on the fork and the seat tube: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fR67VV_Tfd4/VmIuwDMDKSI/AAAAAAAADIc/LFk4eI8Fux8/s1600/IMG_0786.JPG>
<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rze7cwggv-4/VmIu0DIHXKI/AAAAAAAADIk/d4HxgaZsEdc/s1600/IMG_0785.JPG> On Friday, December 4, 2015 at 4:01:13 PM UTC-8, John Hawrylak wrote: > > what does the Columbus sticker on the fork say??? My 88 Voyageur (Tenax) > does not have a Columbus fork, but a Tange. maybe due to the cantilevers > maybe. > > John Hawrylak > Woodstown NJ > > On Friday, December 4, 2015 at 2:40:25 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > >> New bike day! My 1985 Schwinn Tempo arrived today. Riv-content: >> >> 1. The build-plan includes the following parts bought from Rivendell >> Bicycle Works: Tektro Big-mouth brakes, Newbaums tape, Noodle handlebars >> 2. Obligatory clearance photos + an appreciative photo of the seat lug, >> showing a tasteful seatstay wraparound. >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wOpRAQGa9-s/VmHrH3c0Z7I/AAAAAAAADHQ/KdmFgfygtbE/s1600/IMG_0781.JPG> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M04D8U71iCY/VmHrLcw7BAI/AAAAAAAADHY/YEfKYGcwnKA/s1600/IMG_0783.JPG> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pC1EkX433-4/VmHrTmtHCbI/AAAAAAAADHo/4pVf7_L22cM/s1600/IMG_0779.JPG> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Io9yP9mods0/VmHrO2O03nI/AAAAAAAADHg/4LPtBiIFxGc/s1600/IMG_0782.JPG> >> >> >> On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 4:44:36 PM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote: >>> >>> So I sold a few bikes to pay for a mountain bike. You guys snapped up >>> two of my three 650B bikes, and wanted the frames, but not the wheels. >>> So I found myself with a surplus of 650B tires, and tried to sell off >>> some, but you hardly bought any of them. >>> So, it was irresistible, unavoidable that I buy a cheap vintage road >>> bike to do a 650B conversion on. Right? Right!? >>> >>> I worked at a Schwinn Shop through the mid 1980s, so I have a long >>> standing softspot for mid-1980s Schwinn road bikes. A standard ebay outing >>> includes searches for Paramount, Peloton, Super Sport, Prologue, Circuit, >>> Premis. They were all made either in the US or Japan. Many had Columbus >>> or Prestige tubing. They had great fork crowns for 650B, generally. The >>> only downer was that virtually all of them did not have fender eyelets. A >>> recent find had me looking through an archived scan of the 1985 Schwinn >>> Catalog. Flipping the virtual pages I was reminded of a model I had been >>> overlooking: the Schwinn Tempo. The 1985 Tempo was the number 4 model road >>> bike (Paramount > Peloton > Super Sport > Tempo). The Super Sport and >>> Tempo both have a Columbus "Tenax" label, but the not-very-well-kept-secret >>> was that Schwinn bought up a whole mess of cosmetic blem Columbus SL and SP >>> at a discount and agreed to label it Tenax. Thanks to the sneaky light >>> tubing, the stock bikes were respectably light. List weight of the Tempo >>> was 22 lbs. An added plus is that the Tempo was the only "Competition" >>> road bike that year with eyelets for fenders. >>> >>> So, having added the Tempo to my standard search, I found one almost >>> instantly on ebay. It looks like a completely stock attic-find. I got it >>> at a half-way decent price ($249) and a horrible shipping cost ($95), but >>> now I've got my Winter Project, again, thanks to you. I'm going to do a >>> 650B conversion on this nice 1985 Schwinn Tempo. >>> >>> <http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QNYAAOSwo6lWQSP5/s-l1600.jpg> >>> >>> Anybody want to trade me or sell me a Nitto stem with a 25.4 clamp >>> diameter and a 10cm or 11cm extension? >>> >>> >>> Bill Lindsay >>> >>> El Cerrito, CA >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
