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 | Mar 18, 2016 | Bike Histories, Other Vintage Bikes, Vintage Bikes
35 years later, this De Rosa has still yet to be built, and has never seen the road. I bought it in Seattle in 2012 from its original owner, a Californian who purchased the imported frame in 1980. He asked the bike shop to fit the first of what he thought would be a...
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