eBay and Craigslist finds

She's the bicycle equivalent of crossaints on the Champs-Élysées.

Take her up your local climb and you'll feel like you're on Mont Ventoux, locking horns with Il Pirata, just like Richard Virenque himself.

It's a special machine this, from when everything wasn't stealth black
and made of plastic.

It's a bike for rescuing damsels in distress on.

I cannot stress enough how fit you'd look slinking round an urban metropolis on this.

It's got the vintage cool of steel with the reassurance of bar mounted gear shifters.