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Will modern Rene Herse/Compass bikes rings fit on a vintage 3 bolt Rene Herse crank?

Beautiful build. Great photos. Thanks for sharing.

I just read this over the weekend! Hooray!

That cleaned up really nice. Hard to believe the previous owner cracked a crank arm on a touring bike. $275 is a great price for a Miyata 1000 even with some wear and tear.

Yes, time to work on bikes is at a premium and if its your day job I could see it being even more difficult to motivate yourself to finish a project build. I will say though that the ride of my Ellis Briggs compared to my other vintage road bike is significantly nicer.

Oh, you should finish them up. Mine is very nice to ride.

Great acquisition and great build.

No worries. Its interesting how Brits and Aussies have such a different perspective on the brand name to Canadians of my generation. Here is the thread I created on my 1980'ish Apollo (Kuwahara) Gran Sport https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/apollo-gran-sport-canadian-brand-by-kuwahara.348893/...

No, the Canadian Apollos were built by Kuwahara for a Vancouver business man when he had trouble sourcing bikes from England. They are considered moderate to good quality Japanese frames.

I think if I was going to one vintage bike it would be a drop bar modified hybrid or touring bike. If it was one mountain bike / ATB it would be a fully rigid early mid to high end steel Kona, Rocky Mountain, Brodie, etc. Although I did really enjoy riding my Zaskar when it was built up -...

I'm in Vancouver and don't see this. Everyone who is asking pre-covid prices on their vintage bikes don't seem to be selling them. People were asking $500-600 on CraigsList for good quality Apollos and I can't get $200 for mine at the moment.

Grant Pederson is a big Altus rear mech fan, but he runs them friction. If you run friction shifters you don't have to worry about a ghost gear and can run up to 10 speed in the rear.

I have a set of Suntour Command Shifters - I think the original version. I ran them for a while on my Ritchey Ultra with dirt drops and a shimano rear cluster. I didn't appreciate that Suntour and Shimano used slightly different spacings/pull ratios when they were in the indexing war and they...

I've been needing to make some space in my garage/bike shed and have been trying to sell a couple of vintage bikes and the market seems completely dead. Or the prices have dropped so much that I'm waaaaaay overpriced at 60% of what I paid for the bikes originally 5 or so years ago. And these are...

In the 70's? Probably.

Maybe you need to call (I'm overseas and used email). Here is the link to the thread on my bike https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1970-something-ellis-briggs-favori.446417/

Thanks for sharing the photos. I wasn't able to make it, but a friend did and he shared some photos with me.

Thank you. Really interesting that in the photo they show it on a bike running a threadless stem.

Looks nice - hope the BB isn't cracked. I have an Ellis Briggs that was gifted to me by the previous owner - I believe that its a mid 70's Favori of some sort from what he told me of the frame before it was resprayed. Mine doesn't have the touring light mount on the fork - I've always associated...