Recent content by juvela

----- wrt pedals - this set has been identified as coming from the French firm of CEGEDUR do not know if that is correct [only image] the firm's main business the contract manufacture of fittings for motorcycles other pedalcycle fittings produced include chainsets and hubs one...

----- if of any interest to verify cycle's date of manufacture there is a serial guide here - Fuji Serial Number Database -----

----- evidently name belonged to Williams, if to judge by this: from a description of the Tommy Godwin one year time trial... evidently chainsets were produced as well: "Although the frame was stock, from the onset Raleigh offered a range of alternate components to “suit the speedman”. The...

----- based me date estimate on a combination of frame details & kitting cycle seemed to have a "factory assembled" look/vibe but could easily be mishtooken 😕 had never heard of Geoffrey Butler offering assembled machines...which certainly does not mean that none were done had only heard...

----- ;) it was a model quite popular with the public - a good seller for the manufacturer it was also contract produced for a company in Van Nuys, California where it was badged as Campania brand https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vintage/1169876-my-new-campania.html if you look at the...

----- Expansive! Verily, one could easily sequester the Queen Mary up there!* 😆 --- royal chapeau - thank you! yes both Vagner & Ekla had designs with that horizontal groove fore & aft... --- * - just so long as she were a model in a bottle... -----

----- mfr catalogue page for the 1974 edition of this model - -----

----- for readers, so they needn't have to fumble about in the dark - here is the inspiration for the marque name under discussion https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002094/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Gassman --- one o' me fave marques (it's a list longue 😂 ) constructed with...

----- thanks so much @non-fixie ! 😍 see that you have posted one of your oytoy film star leading men IIRC thar be a second as well be he currently built or unbuilt? please pardon this old man's roosty "memory" 🤪 -----

----- rims appear to be unferruled so likely wheels of washered construction are rims marked as issuing from Weinmann facility in Belgium? appear they are likely to be either model Nr. 256 or model Nr. A-122 -----

----- among other things, Scandia was a marque employed by Monark-Crescent Bicycles - MCB MCB models were sometimes transferred as Scandia...perchance a means of packing more product into a given market... have not previously encountered a chainset bearing the name in this image chainset...

----- wunnerful textillium, greatly enjoyed here! 🥳 ...and then there is a certain Teval...😍 --- others much loved are the Garage Indesteege et les trois jeune filles mixte de MCML's as they be not royduhz they doona wreally belong here...so perchance they may fit elsewhere upon a...

----- wunnerful job with the daguerreotypics! :D --- footie rests - wondered about these since post Nr. 1 not seen previously was sure a Brit member would spot them straightaway as something produced in small numbers BITD --- MCMLI datum fitteth right in with presence of CLB ALP...

----- yours is the first Geoffrey Butler badged cycle have seen which looks as though it may have been purchased as a complete machine had previously thought of name as a framebuilder only if they began offering complete cycles at some point other readers will likely have solid information to...

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