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Featured Bike: Diamondback Ascent, Restored by Cap'n Jonny
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- 31-March-2024
A Diamond Back Ascent bicycle, including white cables and balloon whitewall tires, restored by Cap'n Jonny Recenly, Cap'n Jonny found in the Bicycle Exchange shop, a Diamondback Ascent tagged for donation. Being one of our top "Homework Heros," he says he just had to put his hands on it. Read on for
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Featured Bike: Raleigh Record Flat Bar Commuter Bike
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- 02-November-2023
A Raleigh Record repainted, restored and rebuilt by Cap'n Jonny Cap'n Jonny is back at it again and beautifully restored an old Raleigh and turned it into a nice flat bar commuter. Read about his process in his tale below.
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Featured Bike: 1958 Raleigh Lenton Grand Prix
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- 28-September-2023
See Cap'n Jonny's latest restoration of a classic Raleigh Lenton Grand Prix Cap'n Jonny is back with another impressive restoration, and this one is available foranyone as impressed as us, and the sale will support our bike donations! Read on to learn more about this
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Featured Bike: Captain Jonny's Restored 1985 Pinarello Montello
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- 01-May-2023
Captain Jonny's Pinarello Montello vintage road bike restoration. Captain Jonny is back with another amazing featured bicycle. This Pinarello Montello might be one of his most stunning restorations, bringing back a bike to its original beauty. The bike didn't last
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Featured Bicycle: 1977 Austro Daimler SL Road Bike
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- Andrew Y
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- 02-June-2022
The Austro Daimler SL lovingly restored by John G. This month's featured bike is a 1977 Austro Daimler (AD) restored by another master mechanic named John, but this time it's John G.
The bike was donated by the original owner, Michael W., an
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Featured Bike: 1973 Stella Mixte Road Bike
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- Cap'n Jonny
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- 06-February-2022
Stella vintage step-through road bike from 1973. Cap'n Jonny has a new featured bike, and it's a beautiful vintage model. Enjoy his profile of his latest project below.
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Featured Bike: 1982 Bianchi Campione Del Mundo
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- 02-November-2021
A Bianchi Campione del Mundo restored by Cap'n Jonny. photo: Gregg Kato I do a lot of restorations for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange here in the heart of the Bay Area tech scene. We get a fairly steady stream of interesting donation bikes and I make a point every
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Featured Bicycle: 1970s Schwinn Super Sport
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- 05-October-2021
1970s Schwinn Super Sport made in Chicago This beautiful Schwinn Super Sport frame came to the Bike Exchange from our friends at the Cupertino Bike Shop when they moved earlier this year.
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Bikes of the Month: Gravel Cruisers
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- Andrew Y
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- 07-August-2021
Check out our creative line of "Gravel Cruisers" At BikeX, we are quite experienced tuning up bikes donated to us and ensuring they're in fine, safe operational shape. That's been the key to donating thousands of bikes to our partner charities over
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Featured Bicycles: Two American Classics from the 1960s
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- 11-July-2021
John Felch worked on several American bikes from the 1960s this month. Volunteer John Felch is back to his magic this month, but appropriately for the July 4th holiday, his polish and wrenching were spent on good ol' American steel, this time working on a few stylish
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Featured Bicycle: Bianchi Brava
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- 07-June-2021
Featured Bike: 1988 Bianchi Brava with Columbus steel tubing. I just finished work on this 1988 Canadian Bianchi Brava. It came into the Bike Exchange quite dirty and with a dent in the top tube. I really worked at cleaning it using both white polishing and
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Featured Bicycle: Windsor Carrera Sport Vintage Road Bike Part III - The Thrilling Conclusion!
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- 03-May-2021
John Felch's Windsor Carrera is done! With passionate volunteers, we don't always take the most time-efficient path to restore and refurbish bicycles. This fine restoration is a perfect example of a volunteer going the extra mile.
At
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Featured Bicycle: Windsor Carrera Sport Vintage Road Bike Part II
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- 09-March-2021
A teaser image of John Felch's latest project Here’s an update for the Windsor Carrera Sport vintage road bike we featured last month.
The frame has a beautiful new coat of paint, went through a thorough polish, and is ready for assembly. The decal
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Bike of the Month: Windsor Carrera Sport Vintage Road Bike
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- 04-February-2021
The February Bike of the Month: A Windsor Carrera Sport steel vintage road bike I just brought a 70's Windsor Carrera Sport home from the Bicycle Exchange. SVBE's Andrew picked it up from a teammate of his son's cyclocross team.
The bike has quite a history that spans three
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Bike of the Month: Raleigh Sports Mixte 3-Speed
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- 15-January-2021
Cap'n Johnny's latest refurb, a Raleigh Sports mixte. For the New Year here is something old that’s also something new.
Recently, I spotted a horrible looking Raleigh Superbe at the shop. The paint was in bad shape, it had a chrome fork that was wrong, and
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Bike of the Month: Schwinn Stingray, Refurbished by Cap'n Jonny
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- 03-December-2020
Schwinn Stingray, Refurbished by Cap'n Jonny © Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange / bikex.org With all the mountain bikes, sport bikes, and race bikes that have graced this space, it might seem that this rather odd-looking kids’ bike is a bit out of place here. It is, in fact, the first
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Bike of the Month: 1974 Allegro Special, Refurbished by Cap'n Jonny
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- Andrew Y
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- 05-November-2020
The Swiss Allegro Special road bike. Here's our most recent featured bike, donated by an owner moving from the Bay Area up to the Sierra, and fully refurbished by our tireless volunteer Cap'n Jonny. Enjoy a brief trip back in time:
Founded in
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Bike of the Month: 1930 Rudge-Whitworth
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- Jack Miller
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- 08-June-2020
The 1930 Rudge-Whitworth: An Adventure
by David Kamp
I dropped in at one of the garage sales late last summer, and the single-speed Rudge-Whitworth caught my eye. Jack said it had been donated and
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