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Miyata even built a Radbal Eddy Merckx:

What exactly is your question? WRT tyre size: touring bikes of this era are great - if not the best - for light touring and randonneuring. The 28-32 mm tyres that this frame will easily accommodate suit that application quite well, IMO. You could go wider with 700C - up to 45mm if the internet...

I'd want my bell on the right, but other than that ...

I have tried them, and found they felt rather mushy. Didn't like that. Went back to MAFAC hangers. YMMV, though. What I've just mounted on one of mrs non-fixie's bikes are these Power Hangers. They do feel pretty solid, and I'm tempted to try a set on one of my own bikes:

Classic, and much loved by contemporary racers from the Low Countries, was to combine MAFAC brakes with Universal levers. Here's a certain Eddy Merckx, showing that combination on his "Peugeot": Joop Zoetemelk, with the same combination:

The reason I asked is because I recognized the Netroh name. It was the house brand of Horten Sykkelsport in (of course) the town of Horten, just south of Oslo.

Interesting! How did you find out? BTW, the tubing could also be Minerva's own 'tubi speciale in acaio', like with this Minerva-built Cycles Tuyttens:

Nice! Are you in Norway? I'm sure Rob will be along shortly to tell you where to look for the number. ;)

I believe it says "Blocpil". I also believe I have seen that name before, but I can't seem to find anything about the brand right now. 😟

Hah! The Dutch (and the Belgians, for that matter) do "Italian" better than anyone. This is my Giovanni, with the brand's owner, Pietro Ingoiatore:

Get yourself a nice little friend. I married one, and now I have a place for all those crappy but nice little bikes. 🥰

Coulon, France:

For keeping bikes eligible for retro events - which is pretty much the same as making sure they work with 5 and 6-speed freewheels - I like to keep an eye out for 86 BCD cranks. They make nice super compact doubles. Examples from Stronglight and Sakae Ringyo do come up for sale regularly, and...

That should clean up really nicely. Good find!

So what do you do when you come across a building that's a thousand years old? Well, you lean your bike against it and take out your phone for a picture. This is the 21st century, after all. Pieve di San Genesio, a rural church from the 11th century in Piemonte:

Excellent topic! Churches often provide great backgrounds for bike pics. 👍 A bike from Putney in Merlo, Italy A Halfords product at the Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey in France:

I did some trawling through the large documentation database of the V-CC, but so far that has yielded exactly nothing. Neither did the documents I had collected following the find of my own Altenburger derailleur. What I am getting from the information I did come across is that the most logical...

Franquin is one of the greatest, if not the greatest.

And Joel Metz has consulted with some of the best experts on the subject ... :)

Those derailleurs are cool. I'd never heard of them until I found this example a while ago at a bike jumble. Too intriguing to not take home for a euro. Other than the missing jockey wheel it seems to be all there.