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Those TANK pedals (it sounds even better in French!) are the absolute bomb. They used to be everywhere, on old city bikes, Demi-course...

Cinelli M71 - another exotic example of the 'Kamikaze Pedal'.

On the contrary, there's a very strong micro production system in China, not just for custom built bicycle parts, but custom guitars...

Hahahs! Rene Herse USA: overpriced, knocked up in China, re-imported copycat old toot. Who on earth would buy such inimitable garbage...

Puts me in mind of a later Peugeot, they made a load of different SLX frames, and by that time they'd ditched the crazy french threading...

Are they as good as they say? I'm impressed by the design, sealed bearings I believe and they look like they would take a proper beating

I saw one of those locally go for a cool 5500 euro...😵

Well spotted!

Always a big fan of anything Suntour , Superbe PLm 4000

Suicide Pedals we called em - a big posh lad I used to rescue with was an early adopter. We had no end of fun watching him fall over at...

Here’s Madonna riding a De Rosa in 1995

Here's a '94 Mapei master very similar to the one above. No chrome on the headlugs and a full painted Precisa fork. Note the complexity...

The US doesn't have anything I want 😵😜

I don't know anyone who can do a decent Mapei finish respray, so I think the frame paint is original, but the forks definitely not. I've...

Yep, no shipping from France to the US either, 'for the foreseeable future', in France that could mean forever. A slight hassle for me...