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This should be a 'proper' Retrobike build, seeing as 1) It involves bringing a bit of a wreck back to life and 2) It makes no financial sense. Actually I suppose considering the cost of a new Condor steel frame, maybe it could be justified financially, but needless to say that's not why we do this sort of thing, is it? Otherwise we'd all be bankrupt, as has often been pointed out. Still, I'll keep telling myself it's worth it as the cost inevitably spirals, as per usual 
About a year ago I posted a thread trying to identify the model of a Condor I picked up on Marketplace for the princely sum of £25. I still haven't actually found out what model it is, though I have just got around to asking Condor (it makes a change to have a bike made by a company that is still in business) so maybe they will tell me more soon.
I picked it up based only on one crappy photo which showed the 653 decal, but I had no idea what make it was, or anything else, really, so to find out it was a Condor was a nice surprise. Anyway, it may have cost £25 but it was in quite rough shape, having obviously had a hard life at times. It had been kept out in the open in garden of the person I picked it up from, although he was definitely not the original owner, being far too short for it (hence the seatpost all the way down in the frame). Also one shifter didn't work at all, so he would have been riding it on the small ring only...though in Sheffield that is better than on the big ring only, I suppose.
It had been rebadged as a Reflex, who are a brand that make nasty Bike-Shaped-Objects. A bit of a come-down for what was once a rather nice bike. I felt very sorry for it. Yes, I know it's an inanimate object, but still.
I only have one not very good photo of the bike in the state that I got it, as it was smuggled in under the cover of night and swiftly taken apart as much as I could so as to avoid any interrogation the next day
The good points:
- It's a 653 Condor
- The wheels are original and in surprising good condition
- It's mostly original
- The seatpost was not stuck
The bad points:
- Nearly everything else
About a year ago I posted a thread trying to identify the model of a Condor I picked up on Marketplace for the princely sum of £25. I still haven't actually found out what model it is, though I have just got around to asking Condor (it makes a change to have a bike made by a company that is still in business) so maybe they will tell me more soon.
I picked it up based only on one crappy photo which showed the 653 decal, but I had no idea what make it was, or anything else, really, so to find out it was a Condor was a nice surprise. Anyway, it may have cost £25 but it was in quite rough shape, having obviously had a hard life at times. It had been kept out in the open in garden of the person I picked it up from, although he was definitely not the original owner, being far too short for it (hence the seatpost all the way down in the frame). Also one shifter didn't work at all, so he would have been riding it on the small ring only...though in Sheffield that is better than on the big ring only, I suppose.
It had been rebadged as a Reflex, who are a brand that make nasty Bike-Shaped-Objects. A bit of a come-down for what was once a rather nice bike. I felt very sorry for it. Yes, I know it's an inanimate object, but still.
I only have one not very good photo of the bike in the state that I got it, as it was smuggled in under the cover of night and swiftly taken apart as much as I could so as to avoid any interrogation the next day
The good points:
- It's a 653 Condor
- The wheels are original and in surprising good condition
- It's mostly original
- The seatpost was not stuck
The bad points:
- Nearly everything else
