by Dominic | Apr 13, 2020 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage Swiss Bikes
The Marque “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 even in the French part...
by Dominic | Jan 23, 2020 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Peugeots in the Mid 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 doubt...
by Dominic | Jan 2, 2020 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
The Bike and the Car I’d had my eye on this pink Mercier 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 in the...
by Dominic | Dec 23, 2019 | Other Vintage Bikes, Vintage Bikes
I Bet You.. ..£5 that you haven’t seen one of these before. It has nothing in common with De Rosa, the Italian brand par excellence. This is an entirely different kind of objet d’art. I’m not going to lie, I had never heard of this brand when...
by Dominic | Dec 6, 2019 | Vintage French Bikes
Alan and Peugeot Niaz wrote to me recently with some pictures of his superb French bikes, with some excellent informative background about them. He’s kindly agreed that I can share them on this site, as they are two great examples of the best French bike...
by Dominic | Sep 13, 2019 | Vintage Bikes
A Bike for Séraphine I’ve only ridden an Atala bike once, back in the days before the housing market in Seattle was still affordable and the Capitol Hill district of the city was more bohemian than tecchie. I owned it for a few weeks, but there was no lack of...
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