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[grantoury]

I was thinking it could be a Guylaine, a German custom frame builder who specialize in touring bikes, or "Reiseräder", as opposed to Trekking bikes, where the difference is mainly in a drop bar vs. a straight handlebar and maybe road groupsets vs. mtb groupsets.

When looking for this, I stumbled on a page on a German forum that attempts to describe the history of the Reiserad in Germany. Interestingly, they trace the advent of these sort of bikes in Germany back to the first real Dutch touring bike; the Gazelle Randonneur from 1984.



https://www.rennrad-news.de/forum/threads/guylaine-reiseräder-randonneure-infosammlung.177271/

This page contains many interesting looking Guylaine models, here are a few.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

I was thinking it could be a Guylaine, a German custom frame builder who specialize in touring bikes, or "Reiseräder", as opposed to Trekking bikes, where the difference is mainly in a drop bar vs. a straight handlebar and maybe road groupsets vs. mtb groupsets.

When looking for this, I stumbled on a page on a German forum that attempts to describe the history of the Reiserad in Germany. Interestingly, they trace the advent of these sort of bikes in Germany back to the first real Dutch touring bike; the Gazelle Randonneur from 1984.

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https://www.rennrad-news.de/forum/threads/guylaine-reiseräder-randonneure-infosammlung.177271/

This page contains many interesting looking Guylaine models, here are a few.

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Post 1314 there are two Guylaine catalogues, 1993 and 1994. Beautiful bicycles.

 

[non-fixie]

Patria Dublin:



Like the thinking behind those Guylaines, BTW. Very nice.

 

[dree]

Vittorio randonneur from the eighties with gilles berthoud mudguards, nitto handlebar and tubus racks

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

That's lovely

 

[dree]

Koga miyata Randonneur lady "gravel"

 

[th0m]

Dave Yates frame from 2000 (bought NOS) built up with Rohloff and mostly Nitto components. Love it.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Dave Yates frame from 2000 (bought NOS) built up with Rohloff and mostly Nitto components. Love it.View attachment 998935
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Lovely

 

[Jamiedyer]

That is really lovely th0m. Such a really nice way of mounting the Rohloff shifter too.

Jamie

 

[th0m]

That is really lovely th0m. Such a really nice way of mounting the Rohloff shifter too.

Jamie

Thank you! It's a slightly modified lamp holder from Nitto. I mounted it that way as a temporary solution while waiting for the Rohloff shifter for drop bars from Berthoud to become available again, but it works great and doesn't look too horrible, so I might just keep it that way.