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1982 Lotus Touring Bike

Bike tags: 56cm | 80s shimano | Deore | dyna drive | long haul | more tags >>
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Lotus Touring Bike

early 90s Scott ATB Bars and SR stem

Lotus fork/ Shimano Headset

Velocity Dyad

Velocity Dyad

Deore Touring (note: cranks are of Shimano Dyna Drive era)

Selle Italia Flight Gel Saddle

Deore Dyna Drive pedals

Shimano 7spd cassette, Deore Touring front derailluer and shifters, STX rear derailluer

Has Shimano Deore Touring groupo, this was before deore became a mountain bike group.





People who friended this bike A Worm Is Coming, whiskeytango, latron, tallbike, larossa9

Love the touring Deore gruppo

The crankset especially, with their crazy take on a TA crank. How do you like the zero-rise (or whatever they're called) pedals? The center of the bearing is at the ball of the foot, and they were supposedly more efficient.

Great looking bike

Those Scott bars were also v. nice but if they are old and have seen a lot of use you might want to chuck them for something new. The aluminum is thin and tends to fail catastrophically. The Nashbar bags fit the bike too.

the bars are NOS from the

the bars are NOS from the basement of the shop i work at...really comfortably and stable. probably replace the bags by something higher quality before my next tour cuz while they got the job done i wasn't such a fan of the setup.

Nice!

I was wondering when another Lotus like mine would surface on here. Is yours made from Tange Mangalloy, too?

yep

yep

lotus seeker

where did you get your Lotus touring bike?? It looks awesome. I rode my lotus excelle cross country but did not carry my gear b/c it was just a road bike. my bike was stolen last week :((( and now I am searching.

i found my lotus excelle

i found my lotus excelle short series at a dump waiting for me with an inch of dust an flat tires but after a bit of work i got it shining, are these rare bike, i get compliments everywhere i ride


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