FS/slightly OT: 66cm Takara Overland Fixed Gear + extras (geared setup)--$350

[Jeremy Till]

(x-post from iBob, apologies if you see it twice). 

Hey Folks-

Need to free up space and capital for other bike projects, so I've decided to sell my Takara Overland.  It is currently setup as kind of a townie-fixed gear, built on a frame designed for loaded touring.  Since I've recently acquired a Quickbeam for fixed gear townie duties, I don't really need this anymore.  I bought it used a couple of years ago, built up as a full on loaded tourer, and to sweeten the deal on the bike I will included the 7spd (FW) rear wheel, shifters and derailleurs, so you can convert it back to a geared bike if you so desire.

Pictures here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85709120@N07/sets/72157632186942080/

The details:
-Frame measures 66cm c-c seat tube, 57cm top tube, parallel 73 degree angles.  Great for big guys looking for a true "fistful of seatpost" fit!  The tubing stickers say 4130, and if I had to guess I'd say it was straight-gauge--this thing is definitely not a lightweight.  Designed for 27" wheels with cantilever brakes.
-48cm Salsa Woodchipper handlebars with 150mm pre-QBP (i.e., Hecho en Petaluma!) Salsa Quill Stem with brake hsg stop and cable roller.  It took some doing to get this bar in this stem, so there are some scratches under the tape. 
-Dia-compe canitlever brakes with Tektro R200 brake levers, Cane Creek gum hoods.
-Rear wheel is Origin8 branded Formula sealed bearing track hub, double-sided fixed threading, 126mm spacing, laced with 14g spokes to Sun CR18 27" (630mm bsd) rim. 17t and 19t cogs.
-Front wheel is a generic Weinmann single wall 27" rim on Sansin hub. 
-Tires are 27x1 1/4" (630x32mm) Schwalbe Marathons with very few miles on them.
-Crankset is a Sugino GT 110x74 triple, currently running a single 40t chainring.  115mm Shimano UN-54 BB with 2mm spacer under driveside cup for proper chainline. 
-Dimension pedals. 
-WTB Speed V seat on Kalloy seatpost. 
-SKS P45 fenders.

Not on the bike, but I will include--
-Original "Jim Blackburn" silver alloy rear rack.
-7spd freewheel rear wheel, which matches the front--Weinmann single-wall rim with Sansin hub.  Shimano Freewheel. 
-Original Shimano "Deerhead" Deore F + R derailleurs, Suntour "Symmetric" Shifters for single-bolt mounting on top of the DT.  (Note: one of the shifter pivot bolts might be stripped). 
-Original triple chainrings- 50/45/28

Note: The frame isn't perfect.  The rear dropouts aren't perfectly parallel, the fork alignment is a little bit off.  The canti posts are positioned such that it's hard to use any other brakes than the ones that are on there, and you definitely couldn't fit 700c wheels unless you cut them off and used caliper brakes.  There are a couple of scratches and tiny dings.  At one point, a previous owner clamped a kickstand to the chainstays, and chainstays are minorly dented and paint is stripped there.  However, given the general beefyness of this frame, all of this never worried me one bit. 

I meant to fix this up and return it to geared setup before selling it, but it looks like I'm just not going to have the time.  As a result of all this, I'm offering first and foremost to BOBs, RBW list folks, and other bike geeks who can understand it's not perfect and see the potential in it anyways, especially given its uniquely large size and some of the cool parts. 

Asking $350, with reasonable offers accepted.  Ideally, i'd like to sell it local to somebody in the SF Bay Area, but if you aren't local and really want it, we'll work out a deal to ship it.  Contact me off-list.

[PATRICK MOORE]

Is that a home-made saddlebag carrier? I plan to make one similar but
bending the "ears" at an angle so that they project upward rather than
downward -- don't have such huge clearance between saddle and tire on
my frames.

How does the carrier work? What sort of weight will it take? I suppose
you used hardware store aluminum stock?

Thanks.

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[Jeremy Till]

Ah, forgot to mention that.  It is actually a Nitto saddlebag grip, acquired cheap at a riv garage sale a while back because it was missing one of the daruma-esque bolts that mount it to the seat rails.  I mounted it to the rails with some hardware store u-bolts, and it worked fine.   Rivendell recently started stocking the appropriate bolts recently, so it will be going to another bike and is NOT included in the sale. 

[Jeremy Till]

Bump diddly ump....

Didn't get any hits on this the first go around, I'd still sell it as per the above but now I'm also open to parting it out.  So, if you're interested in any of the parts on the bike or discussed above, hit me up!