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  1. juvela

    Ken Taylor's Passing 06/10/2025

    ----- 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...
  2. juvela

    Ofmega Sintesi Pedals refurb pics

    ----- 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...
  3. juvela

    Chuck it in there mate!

    ----- 👍 ...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"... -----
  4. juvela

    Ofmega Sintesi Pedals refurb pics

    ----- 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...
  5. juvela

    Kuwahara Olympia info?

    ----- 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 -----
  6. juvela

    Peugeot bottom bracket query

    ----- 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...
  7. juvela

    Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

    ----- 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" 🤨 -----
  8. juvela

    Parts , bikes and project bikes

    ----- ...A Rake's Progress... -----
  9. juvela

    Documentary Film: Workings of Bicycle Factory, 1927

    ----- --- 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 - -----
  10. juvela

    Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

    ----- ...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...
  11. juvela

    Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

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

    Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

    ----- :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...
  13. juvela

    Bottom bracket issue

    ----- there is a Regina marque which issues from France -----
  14. juvela

    F.C. Parkes Lightweight ‘48/‘49?

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

    What's going on with this derailleur-crank combo? They interfere

    ---- in fifty-five year o' cycle spanner twistin' have only had this difficulty come up once the machine was a 1959 Cinelli Super Course assembled by noneother than Spence Wolf himself of the Cupertino Bike Shop in Cupertino California its chainset a Cinelli-Magistroni thing-a-ma-bob with...
  16. juvela

    Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

    ----- as regards the possible location of the "Ike Bike" there are potential legal snags forgot to mention there are very detailed U.S. federal laws regarding gifts to the president since the bicycle was not a state-to-state gift from the description it is possible that the laws governing the...
  17. juvela

    Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

    ----- ...suspect that research may bring up some connection to Dr. Paul Dudley White who was one of President Eisenhower's personal physicians and a keen advocate of cycling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dudley_White possible bicycle may have gone into the Eisenhower Presidential...
  18. juvela

    Film and TV stars and their bikes!

    ----- 👍 🥳 ...loved the episode where he employed the Eagle to chase down a fleeing suspect... the gaffing was very good the frame's Tange pattern biconical seatstays and Tange welded crown suggest a machine built from Japan materials "looks" 1974-ish -----
  19. juvela

    Super Budget Bangers!

    ------- for meself, tend to prefer wads... -----
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