At the Copake bicycle swap meet, there was an inaugural bicycle ride(see earlier post). A fellow Classic Rendezvous member showed up with this beautiful Jo Routens bicycle to ride. It is rather difficult to find one this large and it is interesting to see how the builder dealt with the size of the frame, by … Continue reading Yellow Jo Routens Touring/Camping bicycle
French LaPeyre bike we rented
A nice early 1950s French city bike with early Mafac cantilever brakes. Beautiful.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Some random brakes laying on the stairs
Rare Mafac Tiger, wide spacing between the pivots for clearance of larger tires and fenders.Weinmann engraved centerpull brake, late 1950s.First generation Mafac Competition brake, engraved.
customer bike- Flying Scot
Small world story- Well we featured a possible Flying Scot bike on the blog a couple months ago- HERE- and at the same time we were setting up that bike as a round the town city bike, this Flying Scot came to the shop for a similar treatment. They both wanted it set up as … Continue reading customer bike- Flying Scot