Hey, Evan! I have a new (modern) bike I just picked up, also. The secret is to have modern and vintage bikes (and trikes, and....) As long as you can find the storage space. :)

@@bikestrikesrazors I 'll make the space...HA.

And set-up correctly, a better ride!

Hey, how far you guys ride? And what’s your speed? Just curious since it looks really fun riding with vintage bicycles since I own a 1973 Colnago too. I wish I could join that fun rides too. I’m riding back here in Las Vegas by myself( too boring😢) but I need that exercise. Haha!! Have fun and be safe…Oh I’m a new subsciber now.

Thanks very much for the kind words, and thanks very much for watching! I'd love to take a trip over there someday and get a crack at picking up a few of those beautiful, vintage, Australian-made bikes!

Thanks for watching, Edgar!

Fantastic! Have fun!

Thanks for watching, Deezynar! I wonder where your stolen bike is now? Who was the builder?

@@bikestrikesrazors My road bike frame was built by Andy Gilmour. It had a combination of less common features that made it unique, and very easy to identify. It was a large frame. It was probably repainted by the thief, but it originally had white pearl paint with royal blue pinstriping around the lugs. The Gilmour decal was also royal blue. All of the brazing lugs are small. This is a sign that it was stolen decades ago, I can't remember if they had cutouts, but I think that some of them did. The seat stays were brazed to the seat clamp lugs. In other words, the tops of the seat stays end at the two seat clamp bolt lugs. It had vertical dropouts that were sawn down to the minimum. Andy sawed away all the cutouts from a pair of stock vertical dropouts. This was a racing bike, there are no touring bike amenities on it. The shifters were mounted on the downtube by a pair of brazed on shifter bosses. The derailleur cables were routed through the bottom bracket. There are two steel tubes brazed inside the bottom bracket shell that the cables are routed through. The rear derailleur cable continued on inside the right chain stay. Andy never complained about it, but it took him a long time to make that frame. I'm guessing that my request to route the cables through the BB was challenging and took extra time. Another bit of information about the bottom bracket is that the tubes inside it made it so you had to remove the bearing races on both sides in order to remove the crank spindle. I had the required tools to do it, so it wasn't that much of a pain for me to service the crank spindle bearings a couple times a year. But it would never be acceptable to a professional racing team mechanic. It must have been sold in another town because it would have been spotted here if it was still around. It was a large frame and I'd put a lot of miles on it. Combine that with the fact that I had Andy make it out of real light tubing, and it adds up to it having become a large piece of rubber by the time it was stolen. Its days as a useful performance bike, were long gone.

@@deezynar Sounds like a cool bike! At least the thief didn't get it in its prime.

If you're ever in the area, join the ride! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching, Linda!

Thanks very much for the kind words, Rob, and thanks for watching! Aaron Kenny is amazing!

Hi Douglas! Yes, it was a fun day. :)

@@bikestrikesrazors, a old group I would fit right in with....but I'm more recumbent bike these days. Lol. As the weather cools in autumn, I'm looking forward to more of your ride vlogs of longer duration & beautiful scenery.

@@D11Alpha We look forward to making those! Hopefully, the weather will comply. :) Too much extreme weather for one year already!

I wish I still had mine, Dan- Although mine was just a Kmart knockoff! :)

@@bikestrikesrazors mine was a second or third hand find.

Nope, you can’t have it back. Sorry.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching, Charl!

Yep, Mark, we’re lucky to have that trail so close. Only did around 25 miles on the group ride at a comfortable, conversational pace of around 15mph. On the other hand, Rich & I usually do the entire trail (100km) once a week, when it’s empty during the week, at around 18mph-21mph. One week we take the trikes, the next, road bikes. It’s more fun blasting along on the trikes as you fly by the other cyclists, but lately we’ve been getting comments as we roll by implying that our VTX’s are battery/motor powered. If I was willing to slow down, I’d go back and set them straight. :)

@@bikestrikesrazors that’s a great one. People always ask me what kind of motor I have on my 700 as I zip by. Massachusetts has a 20 mph governor requirement on e assist and I can easily exceed that. I tell them I have a 70 year old motor charged with Gatorade and power bars. That trail you showed looked awesome and a great ride with your buddies. Taking my grandsons ages 7 and 9 out for a ride in a few minutes. Run them ragged and buy them an ice cream!

@@markfeldman6509 That sounds like the best kind of group ride! Have an ice cream for me! :)

A level saddle makes everyone (and their sensitive parts) feel better. :)

I'll send a link to a second hand bike shop in Accra. You can try contacting them to see if they have any vintage racing style bikes, or if not, they may know a better source. Thanks for watching!

Here's the link, KOFI! facebook.com/Accra2wheels/

See if you can't get him to restore them both and then give you one of them! :)

I just sent him a text, our plan is now to restore them both then ride them.

@@evanking920 Nice! Let me know how it goes!

@@bikestrikesrazors Will do...

@@evanking920 Excellent!

Hey, Robert! Glad you found something that works for you, and the Dumont certainly is a beautiful trike! I realize that I’m lucky in that my body still allows me to enjoy riding both road bikes and trikes. Thanks for watching!

I just searched for images of the Appollo Eclipse. Looks like a nice bike!

Absolutely, Brannan! Sounds like a beautiful bike! There won't be a ride in October as some of the club members are riding the Davis Bike Club's vintage ride this Saturday, so the next ride will be in November, likely the Friday just after Thanksgiving.

Here's a link to the ride's Facebook page so you can keep an eye out for any updates! facebook.com/groups/913249166110191

Hey, BSC! Yes, It’s a dedicated bike trail that runs along the American River in Sacramento, CA. It’s around 32 miles long, so you can take an up and back metric century without having to deal with cars. You can get a detailed breakdown in our video “The Complete American River Bike Trail”. Thanks for watching!