Recent content by Woz

Hard to say. Storage / preservation environment over those decades would play a part. Personally I would ride it, but certainly no thrashing about. Would have some zip ties in the pocket too. Top class bike like that the racers had the luxury of a following car and medical support. It is...

Very nice. Don't get why it's painted though - oh um, but it does look very nice. Plenty of BB-UN72 ITA on Ebay. ITA cups are inter-changeable with BSA with some eeerrrr careful manipulations not involving a hammer.

^ you can have all the green arrows youi like. But it's nott snapped in acttion and ready for le tip. Ca;;ll me biased and druink.

Yeah. Skinny as a rake. Climb like a mountain goat. Pain threshold extremely high. I love every interview with him. More to life and truly a great. Like it was for Jean-François Bernard. Recruited for a purpose (prologue and TT). A great bloke who speaks his mind. In that monumental La Vie...

Yup. Basically that. 👍 Then get into very stiff wheels with no flex, then work on tyre volume and pressure it becomes easy to compromise and with almost immediate effect what is exactly the major factor at play. Going forward quicker with positive immediate feedback vs. traction in sloppy mud...

The bottom line ;) Try for yourself. Our hobby is cheap and cheap enough to experiment - there is so much out there and all the empirical knowledge out there can very much help design a bike fit for a purpose - for a one off event or even that crazy notion of one bike for life and do it all...

Spoke to a "well known British bike builder" about 2 months ago about the damage done in the competitive world of road racing, and just how long it may take to recover if at all. The reply back was "Never". Already in the Banesto era you could already suspect a lot. In the Fignon era, when he...

The best pleasure I witnessed out of this whole saga was four copies of his book (along with other random books) with a sign saying "FREE - Help Yourself" outside on the pavement in front of a charity shop in Spain - in one of it's epicentres for road cycling.

Having owned a few Cannodales, Funk, Trek, Willier, ridden a Pace, and that dreadful damn Coppi, I was really out of the race to be a AL fanboy. The problem with Ti and Steel for me .... you press on the pedal and you set-off, and you wonder what just happened. Where did that pedal stroke just...

Wanted to come back to this old buddy. For several reasons. Usual disclaimer at this time of evening ..... ;) :LOL::rolleyes: As always ..... bear / bare / baar with me. I think proper research in an historical context I would argue France is rather good - and no offence to any French reading...

I guess the whole of Europe bicycle business is similar. Just making bigger companies, slimming down production, but still owning brand names and patents didn't really work out either to compete with motorbikes and cars. As a customer it all got boring - essentially the same bike (or very...

What I've found when researching (in general) it can get rather complex - thankfully for Terrot a lot is on the web, and of course there would be more public available documents related to legal entities, physical buildings and of course advertisements. The motor-cycle fanboys seem to write the...

That's the one! Excellent read. No, not Dijon (probably got confused Terrot :rolleyes: ). It's a few years ago I had a chat with an Ebay buyer looking for Bebo levers.

Unfortunately I lost some links and can't find them again. There's very little to find related to the legal entity and history for producing Bebo, Bebolux, etc. All I know the head office factory was in Dijon (not too geographically far from Simplex), along with a proper a AL foundry, rather...

@Filochard One of the most fantastic posts ever here. I almost feel like doing selfish replies, but is not necessary. You listed via Rebour the menu a la carte from the 1950s for everyone to be aware of. Good luck and all the best wishes in your continued research. Bicycles and statues...