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----- thank you for sharing this sad news the brothers certainly built beautiful bicycles owned a yellow Tour of Britain from '73, wonderful machine! ;) IIRC Ken carried out assembly & shipping, the way the three brothers shared the workload their mom was a huge fan of the blues and used...

----- the excellent article posted above notes that by far the bulk of the production at the time of the visit was in steel products OFMEGA produced gazillions of headsets, bottom bracket assemblies and chainsets used on ordinary quality Italian cycles typically the chainsets were without...

----- 👍 ...yet another auld cape tosser....ever in overabundance at a pence per passel... "good riddance" we say in these here parts wherest they be referred to as "midden mulch"... -----

----- dust cap note - this cap employed also on OFMEGA pedal model CX found meself liking it straightaway have read reports from owners on other forums that they found them to be problematic/unreliable full name of manufacturer is - Officina Meccanica Galvanotecnica began an unfortunate...

----- there is a helpful guide here to the serials of Asian produced cycles - it contains a specific listing for Kuwahara: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vintage/1042901-asian-serial-number-guide.html -----

----- prior to gradually going ISO Peugeot used some CH good to keep that in mind as a possibility cycle certainly "appears" late eno' that would expect it to be all ISO ~'83-'84 was the time when the big french makers began introducing ISO, in the early time some "mixed" cycles were...

----- Merci Beaucoup Professeur Filocahrd! 🥳 :D the Torrot matter is something have been wondering about for decades wonderful to have it now sorted in me "mind" 🤨 -----

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----- --- there is/was also a Thor marque of Belgium - https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/as-thor-5-speed-my-latest-mystery.124781/ https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/as-thor-road-bike.234672/ --- cycles with a Hermes badge were also manufactured in Britain and in Italy - -----

----- ...au sujet de Terrot - whenst P acquired T (1958?) did they get the motorcycle division as well? were motorcycles & pedal cycles produced in same facility? recall that P kept the T name going into the early sixties by placing it on P built products; do you know a specific year for...

----- thank you so much gents! had never had a shred of information regarding the Bebo marque nor the entity behind it...and always wondered -----

----- :D the grey grip appears to be a FELT from the south of France the black one is a pattern unfamiliar to me, wonder if it may be a FELT as well... cannot recall seeing previously a Beborex guidonnet lever appears more robust than either the MAFAC or CLB examples the Lyotards be...

----- there is a Regina marque which issues from France -----

----- 🥳 Monty Wooley - "By Jove, I think he's got it!" -----