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...
by velocollective | Feb 26, 2018 | Repair Tips, Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Removing Rust from a Bike Frame I just wrote a blog about stuck seatposts, and look what happens: the bike I’ve just bought has a seatpost that is stuck solid. Still, all is not lost; I have yet to try all ways to get the thing moving, but the...
by velocollective | Feb 16, 2018 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Rusting Away Staying on a farm in France for a winter break, I saw this vintage Peugeot road bike stuffed at the back of one of the farmer’s storage buildings. This unit is just a canopy and open to the elements even though it has a metal roof, so...
by velocollective | Nov 16, 2017 | Repair Tips, Vintage French Bikes
Mystery Man There’s very little information out there on the mysterious Eddie Koepler. From what I can gather, he was a professional cyclist, perhaps a domestique, who quite possibly rode in the Molteni team with another Eddy, the iconic...
by velocollective | Sep 30, 2017 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Out of the Farmyard The picture above doesn’t do the state of this bike justice; it was one of the dirtiest bikes I’ve ever bought. I bought it from a farmer who didn’t talk very much, and who lifted it out of his shed full of tools,...
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