With my mountain bike collection growing nicely, I’ve been pondering adding a vintage road bike to the collection, for those days when I feel like a bit of road training .
Now, I have to admit I don’t know much about road bikes, but here is my own ‘shopping list’ of road bikes I’m considering buying. Aside from my Raleigh / Dynatech brand loyalty, there’s no rhyme of reason to this list/ Except that the frame must be steel – obviously!
1. A Raleigh Dynatech, preferably a bonded titanium / steel frame:
Image from here.
Image from retrobike, here. Lovely.
2. Bianchi Columbus TSX
Seen on this forum. There’s something about that colour of paint.
3. A hand-built steel frame from Roberts.
Delightful. Photo reblogged from here.
4. Or perhaps Rourke?
Drool. Image credit.
Google is also telling me there are quite a few excellent frame builders or manufacturers who I’d barely heard of in the mountain biking world. For example:
5. Colnago
Image from here.
6. Merckx
Image also from this page.
Now I just need to find one in my size…
