by Dominic | Feb 16, 2018 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Rusting Away Staying on a farm for a winter break, I saw this old racing 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 the bike has obviously...
by Dominic | Feb 10, 2018 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Everything I don’t know about Legluais Ever heard of Maurice Legluais? I doubt that you have, as his name and his bike shop have fallen into obscurity and there’s scant information on the internet about his bikes. What I do know is that his shop was...
by Dominic | Nov 21, 2017 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
The Super Competition Trying to find information about the Super Competition isn’t so easy; in fact, a few bike enthusiasts on some forums even dispute it ever existed. Well, here is proof that Motobecane did make this model, albeit infrequently, through the...
by Dominic | Sep 23, 2017 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
Who was Bernard Dangre? I must admit, I always thought Bernard Dangre was a professional rider. I imagined he was another of those French cyclists, tough and gnarly, who turned to making bikes after a career on the road. Well, that was wrong! Dangre was not a...
by Dominic | Sep 21, 2017 | Vintage Bikes, Vintage French Bikes
The Tailend of a Hurricane The weather in Brittany in the week that Hurricane Irma hit the other side of the Atlantic, was wild and unpredictable. One minute there would be bright skies and warm sunshine, the next savage cloudbursts of rain that were often short...
