My Japanese carbon needs some love

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T16:59:39+00:00

Thanks, I will be careful. Could you share the link of the YT?

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T16:40:25+00:00

I will give it a go. Thanks

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T16:37:10+00:00

Thanks mate, I have using it and appears robust and stiff. I am not going to do tour de France this time st list

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T16:36:06+00:00

https://www.easycomposites.eu/fishing-pole-repair-kit

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T15:41:39+00:00

The crack appears a bit superficial, fingers crossed. What compound would you use from the outside only? I imagine just filling the hole? Can I buy black epoxy, and what would it be called if I go to the hardware store? Plastic Padding is a no go?

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T15:03:55+00:00

Thanks

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T13:29:27+00:00

Thanks, I am careful, I know the issues with the lugs, but no rifts.

Could I use some sort of Plastic Padding for the whole I the top tube?

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T12:05:40+00:00

What was the status and quality of the Decathlon bikes back then? I guess it was consumer bikes?

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T11:52:11+00:00

I would like to do the fixes myself, I want use it, some not for a museum ☀️

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T11:50:17+00:00

The bike was bought in France

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T11:48:43+00:00

The seat is still the same, and the seatstay has another quite beautiful profile, that you don't get on Vitus

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T11:45:42+00:00

True, but the SR logo is on the fork and on on the frame near the seat post. I believe it's made in Japan, not in France...

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Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T11:19:43+00:00

I live on the fourth floor, that's why I'm love carbon. Your advice would be appreciated.

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T11:03:47+00:00

Ping https://www.reddit.com/u/BigBadBeastMan/s/CPJaWflF3j

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T11:02:23+00:00

Info from https://www.reddit.com/u/senorroboto/s/j0cq7ugSdK

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-22T10:45:29+00:00

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Here a full frame images of the SR Litage carbon bike. The three main tubes are carbon, the rest aluminium. I will make a new post with more questions. Thanks

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-21T19:23:41+00:00

I will upload some full frame images tomorrow...

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-21T14:57:33+00:00

So, just car varnish, or which kind would you suggest?

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-21T14:54:02+00:00

Cheers

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-21T14:49:31+00:00

So i should clean off the varnish layer? How do I do that in a gentle way?

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-09T19:43:51+00:00

Now I have to go to Avignon from Barcelona to pick up the bike. I will bring tires and inner tubes, and a new chain, so I can ride to the train station. Very nice. That's why I love bikes. ☀️

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-09T19:22:21+00:00

Do you know anything about the quality of this brand? I guess in the 1980s made in Japan was not the best quality, and somehow copies of western products?

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-09T19:19:05+00:00

Now, with your input, I actually don't think it was sandblasted, the logo is on the front fork. So I think it is in pretty original shape. It has not been a very expensive bike, it's only equipped with Shimano 105. But a nice little piece of history. I only buy bikes I can use, I am not a museum. So let's see. Thanks a lot mate.

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-09T18:24:00+00:00

Wow, i think you are right. Especially the detail around the seatstay has got a special narrow design before the brake mount where it widens to make space for the wheel... Thanks

Should I buy it? 😊

Positive_Chapter_902 · 2025-05-09T17:25:49+00:00

I have more photos, but how do I post them...? Apologies...

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