Bikes seen out and about

[hubner]

Andre Bertin, Vitus tubing I think.

[hubner]

Maybe early 70s frame. Looks very similar to Merckx's frame of that time.

[hubner]

Raleigh Professional with "shot in" stays and chromed fully sloping fork crown, 1976 I think.
The "speedo" doesn't seem to be connected to anything.

[hubner]

Mid 80s Raleigh touring bike.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Raleigh Royal[e] IIRC?^^ I remember wanting one circa 1989 but never actually got one.

[hubner]

Woodrup with belt drive and Rohloff.

[hubner]

Raleigh Royal[e] IIRC?^^ I remember wanting one circa 1989 but never actually got one.

You probably wouldn't want that one!

[hubner]

Look mountain bike!

[hubner]

Raleigh mid 80s 501 frame.

[hubner]

"Flyer".

[phantasmagoriana]

Mid 80s Raleigh touring bike.

Is it the angle, or has the front end taken a bash?

[Robh]

Mid 80s Raleigh touring bike.

Is it the angle, or has the front end taken a bash?

I don't know about that, but it's got a nasty dent in the top tube.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I was wondering the same about the forks. The top tube bash looks like the result of a theft, either successful or attempted.

[hubner]

Tokyo Bike, "normal" frame size with small wheels.






Moulton.

[hubner]

Raleigh roadster, dark green.


Pink, knees must be nearly banging on the bars.

[hubner]

Aquilon, French bike with Mafac centrepulls, Huret Eco gears etc, 70s I think.
Looks all original except for tyres and cables.

[mzjo]

The Huret Eco gear was mid-late 80's (the long cage version replaced the Duopar Eco, the short cage version was also used on the Sachs 3x2 system). The mech most used in the 70's on that sort of bike was IIRC the Svelto.
It's very pretty but a curious mix of bits with steel cottered cranks but chromed guards and that very pretty rear brake arrangement. I think Aquilon were a label for budget bikes, like Stablinski (and even Poulidor) was but I must admit to knowing nothing about them. They come up in jumble sales, junk shops and "depot-vente" outlets.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I think I had a Huret Eco mech in about 1988.

[Mr Larrington]

Had a Svelto on a secondhand Raleigh Thing as a teenager.  IIRC the idlers actually had proper ball bearings in them.

[The French Tandem]

Look mountain bike!

Interesting paint job, reminiscent of early Look carbon bikes. Those were made of round carbon fiber reinforced tubes glued to aluminium lugs. Probably none of them survived, they all self-destroyed through galvanic corrosion between aluminium and carbon. I saw one spliting apart in the middle of a race, circa 1990. Poor rider, I won't describe here what I saw that day.

A

[finch]

Raleigh Royal[e] IIRC?^^ I remember wanting one circa 1989 but never actually got one.

I had one of those , it was donated to me - really good nick and ended up donated to someone who needed it more than me - 23 inch frame though - looked like a gate

[hubner]

Look mountain bike!

Interesting paint job, reminiscent of early Look carbon bikes. Those were made of round carbon fiber reinforced tubes glued to aluminium lugs. Probably none of them survived, they all self-destroyed through galvanic corrosion between aluminium and carbon. I saw one spliting apart in the middle of a race, circa 1990. Poor rider, I won't describe here what I saw that day.

A

I could be wrong but that is actually a Look lugged carbon mtb frame.
Like this:

[The French Tandem]

I could be wrong but that is actually a Look lugged carbon mtb frame.

The self-destroying frames I was thinking about had lugs that were much thicker than the tubes. Maybe 4 or 5 mm thicker. That's why I believed that the one on the photo above was a painted steel frame, but I might be wrong too!

A

[hubner]

Anyhow:

[hubner]

Van Moof ebike.

£2,250.