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  1. 6 Day Race Photos - 1961

    Recent photo scans from a 1960's scrap book I bought a few years ago at a swap meet. Each of the photo's have 1961 6 Day Race hand written on the back of them.  The pages of the scrap book indicate the same.  Judging from the rest of the "very interesting - more on that later" photos in the scrap book the race was probably in NY.

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    A 6 Day Race historian friend of mine immediately identified it as a "Portable Olympic Track" so it could be anywhere.  Rules out Madison Square Garden as was my first suspicion.  If was fun to find such great 6 Day Race photo's it what is otherwise a pretty common family scrap book.  Enjoy.

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  6. Early Bottecchia (1969?) Fixed Gear Conversion Project.

    First stages of stripping down early Bottecchia and cleaning frame and chrome.  Removed bottom bracket (what an ordeal that was) and repacked fork.  Ordering new Italian BB for it and digging up cranks soon.

    As Found at Yard Sale

    Closer Look at Surface Rust on Headset and Fork Crown

    Bottecchia Cottered Crank (coming off soon)

    Bottecchia Head Bagde - Pretty Clean Chrome Lugs and Fork Crown

    Frame Cleaned and Chrome Polished

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  7. ALAN Bicycle Restoration/Clean-Up Complete

    Finally took some time today to finish up the long overdue completion of the 1979 ALAN Road Bike restore/cleanup.  Came out really nice and clean.  Actually much nicer than I expected.  Can't wait for the weather to change to take it for a spin!

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    Thanks to Wayne Bingham at VeloClassique for all his help and for supplying the hard to find bicycle parts to finish off the project.

    Also learned a lot about truing wheels with this project thanks to Wayne.

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    1979 ALAN Bicycle - Cleaned up and Ridable!

    Used some very cool CLB Cable Housing that I got from Velo Classique.  It comes in a variety of colors... I selected the blue of course.

    ![1979 ALAN Handle Bar View]({static}/wp-content/uploads/lincolnsmithy/2010/01/alanheadagain.jpg?w=300)

    1979 ALAN Handle Bar View - Nice Velox Bar Wrap!

    ![1979 ALAN Road Bike Head Shot]({static}/wp-content/uploads/lincolnsmithy/2010/01/alanheadshot.jpg?w=300)

    1979 ALAN Road Bike Head Shot - Forgot how cool exposed brake cables look.

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