by velocollective | Apr 13, 2020 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage Swiss Bikes
Swiss Road Bike, the Marque Juvela “Juvela was a brand from Lausanne 1951-72 where I live and I don’t know why, very rare here! There is not a lot of information about, but as soon I got them, I’ll write you more about. Anyway a beautiful frame and...
by velocollective | Jan 23, 2020 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Peugeot PH 501 from the 1980’s I like this era of Peugeot bikes, a time when technology was changing and the brand’s grip on the market was slowly but surely slipping away. Peugeot were still making cool bikes at this time, I’m in...
by velocollective | Jan 2, 2020 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
The Vintage Mercier Rose I’d had my eye on this vintage Mercier rose bike for a few days, so on the morning when I finally arranged to meet the seller and see the bike, I felt quite determined to buy it. It was about a 25 mile drive to the seller’s house, deep...
by velocollective | Dec 6, 2019 | Vintage French Bikes
Vintage Alan bikes and Peugeot Vitus Niaz wrote to me recently with some pictures of his superb French machines, his vintage Alan bikes and Peugeot Vitus, with some excellent informative background about them. He’s kindly agreed that I can share them on...
by velocollective | Oct 24, 2019 | Repair Tips
French Steerer Threads Here is an email I received recently from Carles, with an interesting but difficult problem with his Vitus bike: “I recently ended up in your website, which I found super useful. I had the bad luck of ending up with a vitus with italian...
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