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Rare Bridgestone Cyclocross Bike

Rare Bridgestone Cyclocross Bike

Here is one of three Bridgestone Cyclocross bikes that were built to be raced in the 1990 United States Cyclocross National Championships in Bremerton, Oregon. This one was owned and raced by Gene Oberpriller. The other two were raced / owned by the legendary Laurence Malone and Pineapple Bob.  The basis for these race bikes was the RB-1 with canti studs added to the rear of the bike and a custom made cycloross fork using a Bridgestone crown made by Davidson Cycles of Seattle, WA.  Please note the Cinelli bars that are cut down to provide knee clearance when using bar end shifters and the neat cable routing detail off the seat cluster. This bike is still in Gene Oberpriller's...

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1993 Bridgestone XO-1 Country Bike

1993 Bridgestone XO-1 Country Bike

I had been trying to buy this frameset for years from my pal, Hurl Everstone of Cars R Coffins fame. I almost nabbed it before he moved to Portland but he wasn't quite ready to let it go, and I wasn't quite ready to buy it with the parts and price he wished to sell it at. Fast forward a year and he had come into an XO-3 in a larger size and realized that he greatly preferred that fit to his smaller XO-1 and was willing to sell the frame and fork to me for the sum of $666 (natch). I knew that I had no interest in a catalog build or one with moustache bars, I was going...

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