by velocollective | Jul 30, 2017 | Repair Tips, Vintage French Bikes
Good Beginnings.. Its not often you find a Jacotey bike, and from the first moment I really liked it. Great colour, Vitus 788 frame, custom built by a boutique frame builder in Picardy, a nicely put-together bike. Jacotey retired in 2016 as a well known...
by velocollective | Jul 8, 2017 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Restoring a vintage bike: the Guimard Stablinski, Poulidor, Anquetil..some great riders have lent their names to bikes over the years, many of them being mass produced and cheap to buy. Most Anquetils and Merckx bikes you see around are as cheap...
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...
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