Dave’s Eisentraut, custom built for him when he was racing in Northern California in the 1970s. It’s a beautiful bike, with a lot of history in it.

This Raleigh Sprite was parked outside my gym, looking freshly overhauled and ready for someone to ride. But it stayed locked in the same spot, and over the course of a year we watched it slowly deteriorate.
Then one day it was gone. I wondered what had happened to it, until I spotted it again, leaning against a dumpster. I grabbed it, brought it back to the studio, Dave restored it and remarkably, underneath all that neglect, it was still in pretty good shape.