I was a teenager back in the 70's. My friends and I got into bicycles big time. The "new" 10 speed bikes were becoming the rage. We were getting second hand frames and parts, stripping the paint off and hand painting the frames with spray cans. I bought a road frame called a Majestic with Campagnolo dropouts and beautiful lugs. Frame-builders would buy the tubes from Reynolds or Columbus and braze on attachments and lugs from companies like Campagnolo. I bought a second hand fixed gear hub, flip flop design but cogs both sides. I tried building up the fixed wheel but I think I had to have a shop finish it up. That was my first fixie experience. I think I still have the hub somewhere. I went on to other bikes, mostly road, for many years, and then 2010 got 2 fixed gear bikes. I still ride a variety of bikes, recently adding A Wabi Special fixed gear that I am in love with. I know...I really should seek therapy. ha ha.
I’ve always wondered what a Brooks saddle was like to ride with. But dude, what a difference it makes. Best saddle ever! Great build, great bike, great video!
Thank you! Yeah, I've only tried the one I have, but it really has a great, unique feel to it. Like nothing else. Might not be what everybody wants, but I sure love it with drop bars :)
it's been so cool to see you change the way you handle your bikes since your first garbage bike you posted on the channel. from no maintenance causing a chain snap to fully installing brake systems yourself - really awesome!!
i say this because i bought a pinarello where someone had started to remove the paint, to eventually built it into a single speed because one of the shifter bosses had broken. i had a shifter boss brazed back on and rebuilt it with "brifters".
Yeah I don’t think I will ever sell it for as long as I can ride it :) most likely I will just keep modifying it for my needs and wants :) like maybe some day I will give it gears if I feel like it.
We ride similar setup! Mine is a size 56 SE Draft Lite with flip-flops hubs. Rusty old steed but still kicks ass! Great channel, rooting for your success!
I also have a 2009 56 SE Draft (not lite) with flip flop hub! I’ve never used the freewheel side tho haha. Cool to see someone else still loving one, they’re solid bikes!
After watching you videos I am thinking of getting a fixie. I like the idea of absolute simplicity when cycling. I know when touring etc gears are a must but I just don't enjoy the mechanism...it somehow detracts from the experience. As da Vinci said... simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Enjoyed the video. Thank you and I wish you well.
Great video and nice bike! Columbus have only being using "OMNICROM" for a few years (since maybe 2020 or so) so although that's what SL is nowadays, yours might be a slightly different alloy. Maybe cromoly (OMNICROM is pretty much cromoly anyway) or perhaps it has a bit of niobium in it (that's what they were using before OMNICROM but I don't know for how long). There isn't really much difference. It will be a "high strength low alloy steel", which basically means more of the small % of carbon in the steel has been replaced with other elements, and will be cold-drawn and seamless. In other words quality tubing. It probably has thinner walls and a better ride than most non-custom steel frames you can buy new nowadays which tend to be overbuilt. Monkey Shred recently built up a "Bianchi" of dubious provenance on his channel, which also had those hearts in the lugs, but he isn't sure it was a real Bianchi (whatever that means anyway). Campagnolo indeed refers just to the dropouts.
@@addvurtbikes It actually hasn't changed all that much as it turns out :) Reynolds always introduce a new magic number for a new alloy, so we can nerd out on the subtle metallurgical differences between 631 and 725, but Columbus blur the lines a bit more, keeping similar marketing names but changing the alloys. The truth is any tube from either of them will be of high quality.
O wow a bike worth more than 20€, what a luxurious vehicle! Jokes aside, great video, looks like a solid bike!! My bike could learn a thing or two about that, yesterday my crank arm got loose in the middle of a ride... my bike would set me free if it worked for more than two days straight
That is a very good quality frameset. Take care of it. Polish the chrome now before it gets worse. Come spring paint the bike's raw metal before the rust damages the frame. $35? WHAT A DEAL! I vote red or black for the color. Wow. Great bike. Cherish this thing.
Yeah I have been tempted to paint it in the past but never felt like investing in spray and stuff, so I just didn’t. But now I just got a box of free spray cans from my cousin, so maybe!
Love it. I really want a single speed bike, but would need to make space in the garage for another bike. Also, not sure how I’d get on with the hills 😮💨
You can at least put a spinny gear on a single speed because you can coast down the hills! But if you do go fixed you'd be surprised how much easier it is to get up hills in a high gear than you think, perhaps because there's no "dead spot" in the pedal stroke. You can also weave a bit and attack the bottom of the hill to charge up your "kinetic energy battery", then slowly lose cadence on the last bit.
Yeah, depending on the hill size of course, you can probably do more than you think, with some practice. Climbing up hills in a super low gear just isn’t all that fun to me, but my hills are modest.
My main bike is a single speed, if im going any further i have a geared bike, gears are a must in my area, my single speed is a tracklocross bike, amazing just for getting about town
5:38 Those are recessed screws. So they are ment to recess into the fork. Thus they should not stick out. Use the front brake only on a test spin. Front Caliper will move back and forth when playing with the brake lever. Then tighten the screw behind the fork and test again. Front brake is then ment to stay in place while braking.
Yes this is a nice beater bike. I want a road bike frame like this that is a little newer 2013 or so. What would be your frame from this year that is practical and similar?
It sure looks fancy compared to your garbage bikes. Chrome plated parts have become something of a rarity and I do miss shiny parts on vehicles these days. I must have been a magpie in another life. Anyway, cool bike.
Yeah, that’s what I think too. If you look closely at where the chrome ends on both tubes, they are perfectly aligned with a straight line. Maybe this frame was never sold.
It’s in my attic. It’s a size 52, much too small for me. I bought it mostly to take the parts, but maybe one day I’ll give the frame to someone in the right size, or maybe I’ll make a garbage bike out of it :)
@ my 55(?) is also kinda small but ride it anyway. Apart from everything being dry and needed grease I’m kind of impressed by riva. Great bike for the 3000sek.
There was a comment claiming that the bird logo on the fork is not an old Columbus dove logo, but a Concorde logo! So I think that pretty much settles it :)
4:16 that's a concorde-frame-brand logo, not a columbus dove. this whole frameset might be an early concorde, perhaps colombo model
Is it really? That settles it then! Awesome :)
@@addvurtbikes the fork is a 100% concorde, the frame is very likely a concorde. Atm idk which model.
@@addvurtbikes 0:31 isn't that nut on the back side of the fork loose? Wouldn't want your brake to fall off
I was a teenager back in the 70's. My friends and I got into bicycles big time. The "new" 10 speed bikes were becoming the rage. We were getting second hand frames and parts, stripping the paint off and hand painting the frames with spray cans. I bought a road frame called a Majestic with Campagnolo dropouts and beautiful lugs. Frame-builders would buy the tubes from Reynolds or Columbus and braze on attachments and lugs from companies like Campagnolo. I bought a second hand fixed gear hub, flip flop design but cogs both sides. I tried building up the fixed wheel but I think I had to have a shop finish it up. That was my first fixie experience. I think I still have the hub somewhere. I went on to other bikes, mostly road, for many years, and then 2010 got 2 fixed gear bikes. I still ride a variety of bikes, recently adding A Wabi Special fixed gear that I am in love with. I know...I really should seek therapy. ha ha.
Wow :) that sounds amazing, all of it! Enjoy the Wabi! I would love to have a Wabi or two at some point :D
What? Seek therapy? You've already found your therapy :)
beautiful and simple, one gear to rule them all
And nine gears were given to the roadies, who above all else desire watts.
I’ve always wondered what a Brooks saddle was like to ride with. But dude, what a difference it makes. Best saddle ever!
Great build, great bike, great video!
Thank you! Yeah, I've only tried the one I have, but it really has a great, unique feel to it. Like nothing else. Might not be what everybody wants, but I sure love it with drop bars :)
@ I currently use my saddle with dutch bike style bars, and also fits perfectly 👌
it's been so cool to see you change the way you handle your bikes since your first garbage bike you posted on the channel. from no maintenance causing a chain snap to fully installing brake systems yourself - really awesome!!
Thank you! I have been learning a lot :)
back in the day, many such bikes were fully chromed and then painted, with only some chrome exposed.
Yeah, but this one seems to have been only partially chromed. Wonder why.
@@addvurtbikes seems someone removed original paint, including chrome but never finished the job. maybe to repaint or to disguise the make/model.
i say this because i bought a pinarello where someone had started to remove the paint, to eventually built it into a single speed because one of the shifter bosses had broken. i had a shifter boss brazed back on and rebuilt it with "brifters".
That''s a gorgeous frame!! For me it would be a definitive keeper and rider big time!! 😀
Yeah I don’t think I will ever sell it for as long as I can ride it :) most likely I will just keep modifying it for my needs and wants :) like maybe some day I will give it gears if I feel like it.
We ride similar setup! Mine is a size 56 SE Draft Lite with flip-flops hubs. Rusty old steed but still kicks ass! Great channel, rooting for your success!
Nice! Thank you so much :) I feel like the success is already here because so many people are commenting nice things, like you!
I also have a 2009 56 SE Draft (not lite) with flip flop hub! I’ve never used the freewheel side tho haha. Cool to see someone else still loving one, they’re solid bikes!
After watching you videos I am thinking of getting a fixie. I like the idea of absolute simplicity when cycling. I know when touring etc gears are a must but I just don't enjoy the mechanism...it somehow detracts from the experience. As da Vinci said... simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Enjoyed the video. Thank you and I wish you well.
Oooh, can I steal that quote? Yeah, fixie and coaster brake are probably the most simple bikes. Fixie is way more fun tho :) Do it!
@@addvurtbikes Yes on only borrowed
Great video and nice bike! Columbus have only being using "OMNICROM" for a few years (since maybe 2020 or so) so although that's what SL is nowadays, yours might be a slightly different alloy. Maybe cromoly (OMNICROM is pretty much cromoly anyway) or perhaps it has a bit of niobium in it (that's what they were using before OMNICROM but I don't know for how long). There isn't really much difference. It will be a "high strength low alloy steel", which basically means more of the small % of carbon in the steel has been replaced with other elements, and will be cold-drawn and seamless. In other words quality tubing. It probably has thinner walls and a better ride than most non-custom steel frames you can buy new nowadays which tend to be overbuilt. Monkey Shred recently built up a "Bianchi" of dubious provenance on his channel, which also had those hearts in the lugs, but he isn't sure it was a real Bianchi (whatever that means anyway). Campagnolo indeed refers just to the dropouts.
Thank you for the info! It was silly of me to assume that things hasn’t changed over time :)
@@addvurtbikes It actually hasn't changed all that much as it turns out :) Reynolds always introduce a new magic number for a new alloy, so we can nerd out on the subtle metallurgical differences between 631 and 725, but Columbus blur the lines a bit more, keeping similar marketing names but changing the alloys. The truth is any tube from either of them will be of high quality.
O wow a bike worth more than 20€, what a luxurious vehicle!
Jokes aside, great video, looks like a solid bike!! My bike could learn a thing or two about that, yesterday my crank arm got loose in the middle of a ride... my bike would set me free if it worked for more than two days straight
Sorry to hear about the malfunctions :( thank you for the nice words tho :) I hope the bike will soon set you free again!
That is a very good quality frameset. Take care of it. Polish the chrome now before it gets worse. Come spring paint the bike's raw metal before the rust damages the frame. $35? WHAT A DEAL! I vote red or black for the color. Wow. Great bike. Cherish this thing.
Yeah I have been tempted to paint it in the past but never felt like investing in spray and stuff, so I just didn’t. But now I just got a box of free spray cans from my cousin, so maybe!
Love it. I really want a single speed bike, but would need to make space in the garage for another bike. Also, not sure how I’d get on with the hills 😮💨
You can at least put a spinny gear on a single speed because you can coast down the hills! But if you do go fixed you'd be surprised how much easier it is to get up hills in a high gear than you think, perhaps because there's no "dead spot" in the pedal stroke. You can also weave a bit and attack the bottom of the hill to charge up your "kinetic energy battery", then slowly lose cadence on the last bit.
Yeah, depending on the hill size of course, you can probably do more than you think, with some practice. Climbing up hills in a super low gear just isn’t all that fun to me, but my hills are modest.
@@benc8386 thanks. I think I'll have to give it a shot then 👍
@@addvurtbikesthink I'm going to have to give it a shot 👌
Looks solid and sound.
Thanks. It’s pretty bomb proof, yeah.
I had these Shimano PD-M324 pedals on a bike. They are ok, but very heavy. I now use the Shimano PD-EH500, they are a bit (~100g) lighter.
Yeah for sure they are casual and heavy, that’s not a concern for me :)
@@addvurtbikes Ok,but usually it is on a single speed. :) Have you ever tried dingle speed?
@chrisko6439 No, I've never even seen one of those IRL.
Very nice bike great video as always
Thank you thank you!
My main bike is a single speed, if im going any further i have a geared bike, gears are a must in my area, my single speed is a tracklocross bike, amazing just for getting about town
Tracklocross, nice! I hope you have fun with it :)
Cool bike 😊
Thanksssss!
Lovely bike. Enjoyed this!
Thank you my friend!
I have the same ratio. Its kinda tough to ride on a windy day but in nirmal weather its fine
Nice. What kind of bike do you have?
@@addvurtbikes steel frame fixie
Your front brake is loose. Please tighten the screw at the back of the fork! Happy riding and thanx for sharing!
Is it? At what point in the video does it show?
5:38 Those are recessed screws. So they are ment to recess into the fork. Thus they should not stick out. Use the front brake only on a test spin. Front Caliper will move back and forth when playing with the brake lever. Then tighten the screw behind the fork and test again. Front brake is then ment to stay in place while braking.
All you need and more⚡
Yeah! Less is more :)
nice build
Thank you!
Quiet expensive saddle brook is, but it looks and feels good. Did you wear but padding at your fondo?
No, I don’t use any bibs or padding or anything. I don’t have a need for it (at least yet), so I’m not going to get it.
Had one. Ss 700c, 32 in front for comfort, 28 in the back for speed. 😂😂😂
Nice, very nice!
Yes this is a nice beater bike. I want a road bike frame like this that is a little newer 2013 or so. What would be your frame from this year that is practical and similar?
Thank you! I don’t really know much about the market. Maybe Wabi? They make good classic steel bikes designed for single speed and fixed gear.
It sure looks fancy compared to your garbage bikes. Chrome plated parts have become something of a rarity and I do miss shiny parts on vehicles these days. I must have been a magpie in another life. Anyway, cool bike.
A magpie :D It does look nice, I prefer it over black as a base color for metal. Thank you!
Super nice! How much does is weigh?
I don’t know. Maybe I checked after buying it, but in that case it was including the bb. Thank you!
You know what biking is about
Thank you my friend!
Weird, but it honestly looks like it was only half dipped and then never painting. Weird.
Yeah, that’s what I think too. If you look closely at where the chrome ends on both tubes, they are perfectly aligned with a straight line. Maybe this frame was never sold.
bring back swamp bike
I was expecting this would happen :D I still have some plans left for Shrek :)
What happened to the Riva frame?
It’s in my attic. It’s a size 52, much too small for me. I bought it mostly to take the parts, but maybe one day I’ll give the frame to someone in the right size, or maybe I’ll make a garbage bike out of it :)
@@addvurtbikes Sälj ramen på Happyrides K&S eller på Blocket :-)
@ my 55(?) is also kinda small but ride it anyway. Apart from everything being dry and needed grease I’m kind of impressed by riva. Great bike for the 3000sek.
Sepeda bagus.... Saya menyukainya
Thank you!
Could also be a Colnalgo. Wow!
There was a comment claiming that the bird logo on the fork is not an old Columbus dove logo, but a Concorde logo! So I think that pretty much settles it :)
Dikasih internal gear lebih bagus lagi kawan......
Internal gear? Yeah that’s cool too.