1950 Barra aluminum bike on Ebay

Barra on Ebay Here(not our bike)
Made by Nicolas Barra, welded aluminum French bike. beautiful.
sellers description-
"53 cms seat tube c/c
53 cms top tube c/c
seat post full integrated
flattened tube on the rear
ideale leather alloy 58 saddle
stronglight single crankset
simplex alloy rear derailleur
lam brakeset and pads with special spokes in place of cables
rear brake cable throught the seattube
super champion tubulars rims
aheadset stem"

1930s track bike with diamond tubing

 Unknown builder with incorrect fork. It does have Pop Brennan decal on the headtube, but we do not believe it was built by him. It may have been worked on or repaired by him. The lugs are finely filed, rather uncommon from this time period. The rear triangle is built with diamond seat and chain stays, I have never seen a bike with this treatment. Unique CCM steel cotter-less cranks, wood wheels, and early Persons saddle. Any help in identifying????

Thinly filed lugwork.

CCM cotterless cranks. rare design with a triangle taper, rather than the later standardized square taper. BSA chainring. 

CCM crankset from Mike Barry's Blog

Extremely long stem, with lamp bracket attached.

Early Persons racing saddle with saddle support attached.

 Pop Brennan for Expert Sales Repair Work.

 A brake as an afterthought. It clamps on the seatstays, and does not require the brake bridge to be drilled.

New Departure rear track hub.

Retro-Classic bike builds

(written Spring of 2011, I forgot to post)
 I was recently look at Toei bikes in the book from New Cycling and on various websites and thought it was quite particular that they build up new frames using vintage parts. I have known that for a long time, and could even see some of the parts that I have sold used on some of the bikes, but it still seemed foreign.  Toei has always been fascinated with vintage French bike builders like Rene Herse and Alex Singer, they started in the 1950s, when the look was not vintage.

Simplex Record 60 rear derailleur(1960), Stonglight mod. 63 Super Competition cranks(mid 1960s), Campagnolo Gran Sport hubs(1950s), Mafac Dural Forged brakes(1950s-60s), Toei Frame/Fork/Stem(2006)

More pictures HERE of the Toei

An early build up of my Hanford, for a 300km ride in 2011. I was figuring out stem length and my front rack was not built yet.

A more current view of the Hanford is here from the summer of 2012.

Tour de France bicycle exhibit in France

An exhibition in Arudy, France, of old bikes of the Tour de France. Bikes and memorabilia represented from 1903 to1980. So interest of The Wheelmen and of members of Classic Rendezvous.

Link to a lot more photographs and some descriptions HERE
(http://velosvintage.over-blog.com/article-expo-vieux-velos-du-tdf-a-arudy-p-a-111580483.html)

Ondiana 1900, Peugeot 1907, Automoto 1924, and J.B Louvet 1925

Mercier 1937, Bianchi 1936,  Dalcieri (subcontractor Bianchi) 1949, Legnano 1948, and Stella 1953.

L.Bobet 1955, Helyett 1957,  Robert Cazala's 1959 Mercier, Legnano 1963, Fédérico Bahamontes' 1964 Paloma.

Passage of Tour de France at the top of the Tourmalet in 1927.

Wingnut with a lock

This is a first for me, I have never seen this anti-theft device before. Nieman, 1940-1950s French.

1937 Sunbeam

1937 Sunbeam with Monitor Super-Cam brakes. Dunlop 26 x 1 3/8" wheels. Sturmey Archer K series. Later Brooks b-72 saddle.
imported for Abericombie and Fitch, the clothing company.

Monitor Super Cam brakes.

Abercrombie & Fitch.

The Little Oil Bath Chain Case.

Sturmey Archer K series 3 speed hub. 1937.

Forks!

 I am starting to sort out of the forks we have to offer. (well I put most of the nice ones together). Some forks in the lineup include a Bates Diadrant, Colnago 1970s pista, a couple British headclip forks, Zeus, Raleigh Professional, etc.