Le Chemineau road bike

Le Chemineau, as seen at a recent bicycle swap meet. Incorrect wheels.

 Early attempt at index shifting.

 The headbadge is a reproduction on the kilometer marker at the town of St. Etienne.

 Seat tube oiler is located behind the seattube. The Simplex front derailleur is not properly set up, as one can see. There is a cork inserted into the seattube from the bottom bracket shell, and the rider would pour oil into the seattube, from the seatpost, and when he swiveled the oiler down, it will oil his chain. It seemed needed on the early derailleur systems on the dusty, unpaved roads of Europe post-war. I have seen this feature on French and Italian bicycles.

 Maxiplume aluminum cottered crankset, with what appears to be Cyclo Rosa chainrings.

 Chemineau proprietary rear derailleur. It is similar to the Cyclo. Oscar Egg dropouts.

 Henri Gauthier leather saddle. This is the steel rail model, but they also produced an aluminum rail version much like the Ideale.

Lam Super Dural aluminum brakes.

Monson 2012 bike swap

Here are a couple pictures of some of the cool things I saw at the Monson bicycle swap.

In this early morning blurry picture, there are 2 Raleigh Golden Arrows and 2 chrome Raleigh Sports.

Bag full of empty cool boxes.

As found Le Chemineau (more pictures to come)

Rene Herse front rack-

Rene Herse stem with bell

Modified high flange hubs. more pictures to come.

Cleveland early bicycle-more pictures to come.

Raleigh Lenton Tourist(repaint)- more pictures to come.

Random pictures- including some junk

Like all that you imagine, we have a tough time discarding anything as trash or rubbish. We are
I love the Bendix logo, and Campagnolo boxes were something of myth, as they were always top shelf(well maybe minus the Gran Turismo rear derailleur!).

Next is the headbadge to a Le Chemineau. Very cool one that resembles a town landmark milemarker. The bottom picture shows the Chemineau proprietary derailleur system. Also visible is the chainstay protector, Prior super large drilled out hubs, brake unit mounted under the chainstays, and the stays to the Lefol fenders, that actually have a rack built onto to them. I will have more detailed pictures in the future of this 650b bicycle and it's mate, a 700c model that we got together. the type that cannot even through away the packaging that parts come in. Looking back at some of the cool boxes we have and saving the graphics, it is great that we did it(and others before us), but still hard to justify shelf space for empty boxes when space is at a premium! I have seen some old bike parts boxes sell for the hundreds of dollars to collectors. Goes to prove that one man's junk is another man's treasure.