Perfecta Race Bike

[GeorgeRaceBike]

Can someone tell me a little bit more about this bike? I don't find any information on the internet.

 

[jim haseltine]

Don't know the make. Chances are pretty near 100% that the flat bars. mudguards and saddle are mods. Everything else gives off a very French vibe.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Nice bike and Colour. Agree with Jim re bars etc.

 

[M_Chavez]

You're about to start getting PMs from the French appreciation society begging you to sell it. Followed by life threats if you don't.

Nice bike. Quality dropouts. Probably very worth riding, just lose those horrible bars.

 

[M_Chavez]

Looks like they might have built some sexy stuff back in the days. If that's the same perfecta.
Get a pack of napkins, or at least an old sock.

 

[GeorgeRaceBike]

You're about to start getting PMs from the French appreciation society begging you to sell it. Followed by life threats if you don't.

Nice bike. Quality dropouts. Probably very worth riding, just lose those horrible bars.

Yeah I'm planning on replacing it with a race handlebar. Why would they want that I sell the bike?

 

[grantoury]

Nice looking bicycle. All I found on Perfecta is this:

"By this stage in his career, Mucha was in considerable demand for advertising work, and had become famous well beyond his homeland, as evidenced by this work promoting the British bicycle manufacturer Perfecta in France"

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Why would they want that I sell the bike?

I wondered that too.

 

[M_Chavez]

Probably not the same perfecta
"
Perfecta cycles were manufactured by Alexandre Darracq’s factories in the village of Suresnes (department of Seine) near Paris.
The French enterprise, known at first as A. Darracq et Cie, was founded in 1896 by Alexandre Darracq after he sold his Gladiator bicycle business.
He then concentrated on producing bicycle components and complete bicycles under the “Perfecta” trademark.
He also made motorized bicycles, tricycles and quadricycles, often fitted with De Dion engines.
In the course of 1902 he sold his business to a privately held English company named A. Darracq and Company Limited, taking a substantial shareholding and a directorship himself.
Darracq concentrated on building automobiles and by 1910 he would be the third car manufacturer in France, after Renault and Peugeot."

 

[M_Chavez]

Because it's a nice looking bike?