Nice ride! I am envious of your bike paths. We must visit Sacramento just for those. It’s a two hour drive for a great bike trail here. (Silver Comet / Chief Ladiga)

Beautiful trail there.

Bought an 80s Bianchi ten years ago and ride it a few times a week, usually on rides 10ish miles in length around the neighborhood area. She’s a beauty, so fun to ride, and I wouldn’t trade it for any new bike

Schwinn Csepel is still making them, check them out.

You're preaching to the choir. I ride a '93 Bridgestone RB-1 and an '86 Schwinn Paramount. On group rides, I'm usually the only one on a steel bike and the only rider with down-tube shifters when riding the Schwinn. As you point out, old bikes are works of art. I'm a rebel, I think, with a good cause - a contrarian against electronic shifting, disc brakes, internal cabling and carbon everything. Not to mention that prices for modern road bikes are insane.

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My bike stable comprends 90% steel bikes. Still, I dont agree fully with your arguments. The race bike frames shown with special, often butted tubing, are not easy to repair at all. Simple welding will not work in many cases - and if it works, it will still make the frame worthless for collectors or other 2nd hand buyers. Brazing and replacing tubes or lugs is possible, of course, but you will have a hard time to find a frame builder with appointments available - and you will have to repaint the frame - very expensive procedure if if you are aiming for restoring the original condition.

I promise you, with more practice climbing on those bikes, you’ll do better vs the trike. I came from northern Texas, where there is plenty of oxygen to lower oxygen Denver area. Here, hills are everywhere and I regularly tackle an 11% hill with a Performer low racer, one of their high racers (650 wheels) and a Catrike 700. After three years of this I am much improved in my hill climbing on all vehicles, though I much prefer the trike and * much better in my body’s use of oxygen.

I have a vintage 80s-era DeRosa with a tri-color paint scheme that is beautiful and still provides a great platform for performance and fitness. I am proud to ride it and even display it.

I used to race these at school with carbon/Kevlar bodys in a 24hour endurance race the speeds you colud go for hours were insane sometimes upwards of 80kph for and hour or two then you wolud swap riders and normaly tires aswell we had meny blow outs they were alot worse on the race trikes as we used independent front brakes no rear to help with cornering insanely fun

I saw like one of these type of frame and I as think I remember , the frame brand name is called Koga Miyato and they put it on sale for like 50$ (sorry for bad English)

Amazing well done !

Those decals are absolutely magnificent. Unreal.

Thanks for lots of insights based on longtime & varied experience. Am shopping for an eTrike (currently ride a BikeE 'bent) & you've provided lots of food for thought. Loved the sound-effects w/simulated blow-out. Noted addition of rear light for Safety segment - but also irony (apologies for cheap shot) of rolling thru a stop sign in same segment. Great camera teamwork, BTW. Thanks again!!

Vintage perfection

ont voit qu'en general ils descendent,ca parait bien beau mais1) il faut de belles pistes avec de la belle asphalte et pas trop de grosses montées donc tres limité pour les belles routes et tres dangereux dans le traffic car tres bas donc non visibles par les autos.J.aurais aimer en avoir un mais au canada tres peu de pistes cyclable pour ce genre de vélo

Very nice video. Thanks. My abiding memory of owning an unsprung trike is how it would shake your fillings out going over bumps. Great fun though and trikes are super fun drifting round fast corners. Cheers from England

Old School bikes are better than modern bikes. Road bikes, mtb, were built to last. No doubt.

Better? No. It's subjective. I am 74 and started racing in 1965. I have modern carbon (I wont be going to discs - too many great rim brake wheels - yes including deep section carbon) And vintage chromoly. Which is better? Its a silly question. They are different - face it - if vintage bikes were better at converting human energy into forward motion they would still be in the pro peloton. So I love riding my steel . . . but from my teens I have been a race cyclist and in my 70s still ride TTs. Even the club runs get competitive in the last 5km . . .so guess what weapon I am gonna be on for the the dash to home? Clue: It aint the steel . . . And I love the ride of my Giant TCR Advanced SL . . . I would rather ride that over cobbles on 28s than steel on 19s like I used to . . . just saying . . .

I had a spot of basil cell carcinoma on my left arm that had to get cut out. I now wear long sleave sun shirts when I mow and ride inside on a trainer year-round. I think I was only outside for less than 100 out of 4200 miles last year. My dermatologist said the best sunscreens are the ones with the minerals in them.

I have a MASI from the early 2000s built by TREK who saved the brand...I have the blue and white Le Tour anniversary model from their win !

Have you read the book “Ninety Years of Masi” released in 2016.

Cool bikes. I really need to take some time and watch Breaking Away again, it’s been more than twenty years. Thanks for sharing.

Those are beautiful bicycles. I am sure they are so enjoyable because you have rolling masterpieces.

I have some old friends that used to ride Masi's. Oh I wish I'd bought them all those years ago when they sold them to buy the next "best" thing. I just didn't know.........As they say "hind sight is 20/20".

Love the vintage steal frames with filed lugs, paint end Chrome had quite a few of them back in the seventies and 80s look like a great day riding thanks for sharing💫

No one. Vintage nerds: *proceeds to put vintage 5 speed on a modern road bike*

We are watching an old video of Huell Howser on the American River Parkway. I hope you two are well since no posts for a month.

If I was to look for a vintage road bike, what would be thee one to get. The most desirable. The bike that everyone regards as the quintessential road bike from their childhood. "the one that got away". "I wish I still had my _____". Or maybe you still have it. Not necessarily rare, not necessarily the most expensive, but Seasoned riders see it and they nod in appreciation. If it was a tool, it would be a trade name like crescent wrench, or skilsaw "there are many copies, but this is the real s__t". My brother in law speaks fondly of the Fuji and Panasonic road bikes he had in his teens. 10 years ago I bought a 1979 Schwinn LeTour at a thrift store. I might have paid $10 or $15 for it. I only bought it because it said "made in America". I thought i had found something special. I put some time and money in it getting it back to rideable condition. It was actually a good looking blue bike. But I only rode it a few times. I think the frame was too small for me. I sold it. I've been kinda halfway looking for another road bike but I'm not sure what to get.

You just need to be faster than the guy behind you! Great video with beautiful views.

great video, i just put my 87 ozark and 89 mirage up for sale, as i just aquired a minty appalachian :)

the sport, was sold here in the uk, as the Raleigh Maverick GT, made in japan

What are the trikes you two are riding in the beginning of each of your superlative videos? Thanks

Hey Rich & Joe, Laguna Seca is open again tonight (June 11) from 5:30 to 7:00. I'm going to try it. Come on down

race bikes cant be art

I got a 90 batavus champion and that is like a f1 when ride it i feel like senna in monaco 88 with one hand at shifter and the other to the handlebar gg . And non stop over taking bikes on the lane

When I saw the video title, I thought the ride was one person riding a standard road bike, the other on a trike. 😀

I would have enjoyed some stats: avg. speed, top speed, elapsed time, for instance. Also, would you have enjoyed a higher top gear, a 60 tooth front sprocket maybe?

I bought a basic Bianchi Trofeo back in the mid 1990s. I’ve put thousands of miles on it since, and with basic periodic tuneups, the old steel bike still runs just fine. I have a more recent carbon fiber Pinarello Gan as well which I ride every day. I really enjoy the faster rides on the newer bike, but I roll the old one out once in a while for a leisurely ride as well. Old bikes are great. Long live old bikes.

all the following relates to touring style DRUM BRAKES: The Stormy Archer drumbrakes can over heat enough to warp and long steep hills. HYDRAULIC DISK BRAKES if you know and really good at maintaining Hydraulic brakes fine, if not then steer clear of them. I have owned three trikes and I would ride any of them without a Head Rest. I just have to think of a long climb to know why. BLOWOUT I blew a rear tire doing about 90 km/hr. It was a bit wiggly but I brought her safely to a stop. I figured I had a slow lead and the tire side wall got taken out when I hit a bit of a pot hole. ROLLING I have rolled a trick three times at slow speed doing something stupid. Going down hill on a windy paved road at high speed I use my inside brake to determine if I am leaning out enough. If it easily skids I am not. SAFETY: Visibility is key. bright clothes, lights, flags and hand signals and most importantly use your eyes and your mirrors.

oh whew, I thought I was just a bit of a wuss when my arms get a little tired

see me, mark s g. graybeal custodialmark retired. with old tires. bikes.given dozen. 6 left. trike an e mt bike in op. butt let free spirt 3 speed to our local Marfa public radio station , for personal an visitor use. my ol Hurculese not race but gud ride. Adam at bike shop had much an we will try to maintain a few.

I began riding mountain bikes in 1986 on that same trail. As soon as I saw the lake in the shot I knew right where you were. 😁

The San Rensho was late to the game but I saw one and it’s amazing angles and I drooled back in the 80’s

Detto Piettro

Why is a recumbent in the video?

Shifters that aren't on the handlebars and skinny tires that are hard as a brick because you have to put a ton of pressure in them to avoid pinch flats isn't my jam. Sorry.

Great video. One big factor is riding in the drops is not sustainable for many on longer distances

I like steel bikes, but I would not put vintage components on a custom build frame. Some more modern components are just functionally better. 1. Index shifting 2. Clipless pedals 3. Threadless headsets 4. Modern brake hoods (better ergonomics) 5. Modern Handle bars (better ergonomics) 6. I don’t need disc brakes (even though they have their advantages)

If someone hasn’t said it yet, lugged steel bicycles are brazed - not welded.