SteelNipple
Old School Hero
1968-1972 DBS Super Sport badget as Fennia(old latin word for Finland).
Nervex Professional lugs, crown. Reynolds 531 frame and fork. Huret dropouts. 27.0mm or 26.8mm Titan seat tube.
But this one had 144 BCD Campagnolo Strada crank and Gran Sport rear derailleur like on the better Competition model with same frame.
Got the original 630mm wheels with Nisi rims, Maillard hubs. Brakes were Weinmann Vainqueur 750.
Missing the original Titan stem and bars. The bike was somewhat a barn find, forgotten in a barn, covered with dust and droppings. Custom build for the family that owned the bike shop.
Before I went to pick up the bike I asked if he would still have the original cockpit, the seller(grandson of the founder of the shop) told me that in the 80s when he still used the bike he wanted to swap the bars to upright bars and promised to look around if he could find them. And when I went to get the bike he said he went to the gas/service station that had moped and bicycle parts and whatnot, where he had bought the new bars 50 years ago, but to his suprise the building was not there anymore... I don't know if he was really joking, I think their shop still existed at that time so why not get the bars there.
He said that in the 70s they had the first titanium bike in Finland, probably a Speedwell Titalite, in the shop window and that he knew where the bike was now, but it was not for sale.
Nervex Professional lugs, crown. Reynolds 531 frame and fork. Huret dropouts. 27.0mm or 26.8mm Titan seat tube.
But this one had 144 BCD Campagnolo Strada crank and Gran Sport rear derailleur like on the better Competition model with same frame.
Got the original 630mm wheels with Nisi rims, Maillard hubs. Brakes were Weinmann Vainqueur 750.
Missing the original Titan stem and bars. The bike was somewhat a barn find, forgotten in a barn, covered with dust and droppings. Custom build for the family that owned the bike shop.
Before I went to pick up the bike I asked if he would still have the original cockpit, the seller(grandson of the founder of the shop) told me that in the 80s when he still used the bike he wanted to swap the bars to upright bars and promised to look around if he could find them. And when I went to get the bike he said he went to the gas/service station that had moped and bicycle parts and whatnot, where he had bought the new bars 50 years ago, but to his suprise the building was not there anymore... I don't know if he was really joking, I think their shop still existed at that time so why not get the bars there.
He said that in the 70s they had the first titanium bike in Finland, probably a Speedwell Titalite, in the shop window and that he knew where the bike was now, but it was not for sale.
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