by velocollective | Jul 4, 2017 | Repair Tips
The Shifting Mystery It’s always really disappointing when you build your bike and get it primed for the road, clean and freshly greased, only to find on your first test run that it’s unrideable. When you change up a gear for the first time,...
by velocollective | Jun 28, 2017 | Vintage Bike Parts
Weight Weenies A beautiful wheelset completes a bike. But let’s face it, nowadays the cost of a high quality wheelset can be astronomical. The desire, the obsession, for such spectacularly lightweight wheels is obvious when visiting bike shops...
by velocollective | Jun 21, 2017 | Vintage French Bike Parts
Moving the Masses The Huret Allvit was a workmanlike transmission set and could never be described as inspiring or beautiful. It was mass produced for millions of cheap bikes in the 1970’s, including my own first bike as a kid. From the big French...
by velocollective | Jun 17, 2017 | Vintage French Bike Parts
The Derailleurs Back in 1978 you had a good choice of Simplex rear derailleurs, but here we see two of them from that year in very different conditions. The better derailleur, as one would expect, has survived the years of service much better than its cheaper...
by velocollective | Jun 6, 2017 | Repair Tips
French Bottom Bracket – Service I’ve uploaded another repair video to youtube titled: French bottom bracket service video. I hope this is useful and can provide some easy visual steps to how best service your vintage bottom bracket. French bottom...
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