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Greetings everyone, I’m not sure how it ended up here in Switzerland, but I bought it from an online auction, described as a 1984 Scimitar mountain bike from GB. The seller knows more about vintage road racing bikes than I ever will, but didn’t make the connection I did between the names of the...

The prices in this document are listed in French Francs. Divide by 6.5 to arrive at a rough current equivalent in Euros.

As promised, here is part two, in which the MTBs get more interesting. Enjoy, and I'll try to post a couple earlier Ferraroli catalogs soon. Cheers, The Kid

Merci beaucoup to GG for sharing this with me/us. Look for the second half, including the rest of the Swiss-brazed, made-to-measure MTB models, soon. Cheers, The Kid

Hello everyone, Here is another Swiss-made, silver-brazed beauty which I saved from the bin at my local community bike shop. This was made before Ferraroli began to use a year code in their serial numbers, so it's not possible to be sure precisely when it was made, but either 87 or 88 according...

Hello everyone, In the 1990s, when Markus Storck was the German importer for Klein, and before he started his eponymous brand, he offered steel bikes under the BikeTech brand. These were most often built on frames made in Japan by Toyo: a flag-waving German / Japanese alliance, what could go...

Hello everyone, When I saw this one pop up in the local internet classifieds, it was on like anti-Monopoly: go directly to La Chaux-de-Fonds, do not pass this bike up, and do collect $200 on the way. Here is a reference for how little the original paint had faded over almost 30 years. It...

Hello all, I was lucky to get this one, as the classified ad disappeared while I was traveling on business overseas, and I only had a street address connected to it: no name, email or phone number. I took a chance after returning home, and traveled there one Friday evening after work, hoping...

Hello everyone, These days, with XC, marathon, trail, enduro, freeride, downhill, dirt jump, adventure, plus, fatbike, and all of the other market segments within the current mountain bike industry, I'm sure a lot of us appreciate the times when a mountain bike was just a mountain bike. So...

Hello everyone, Here is a frame/fork/stem which I saved from the local bicycle coop, just before it was scheduled to be scrapped. I love Columbus Max and fillet-brazed construction, so once the price dropped, there was no question that I would grab it. It shows signs of having been used as...

Hello everyone, Here is one which I received as a frame, fork and headset. The details of the frame suggest that it was made pre-indexed shifting, but as I am saving my older parts for another build, and couldn't find any appropriate donor bikes, I fell back to M730. I've been able to find...

Hello everyone, I have twins, and as of a few weeks ago, they now own twins. I knew of Geliano, the bike brand from French dealer Cycles Duret, as a result of their wild airbrush paint schemes and split seat tube and top tube designs on road bikes. Until I saw these two bikes, I had never...

Hello everyone, Does anyone have the bolt, washer, upper clamp and lower clamp from a Shimano SP-M730 Deore XT seat post for me? Basically, I need everything but the pillar and head assembly - everything which can be removed from the post. I suspect that the hardware from a Deore DX or XTR...

Hello everyone, In addition to the requirements in the title, ideally, I'd like it with canti bosses brazed on and as little as possible (no rack/fender eyelets, no low-rider mounts, no holes through the crown for accessory/light/reflector mounting). The frame was custom made in Zürich, and...

Hello everyone, There is a special place in my collection for vintage MTBs brazed by builders traditionally associated with road bikes who later stopped making them. The next time I travel to North America, I have both Marinoni and Fuso (Dave Moulton) projects to bring back to Switzerland...

Hello everyone, Here is my wife's classic MTB, from the Gerber bike shop here in Switzerland. Gerber didn't build their own frames, but bought frames from Italy and Asia and assembled them to order. As usual, I am missing "before" photos documenting the condition in which the bicycle came to...

Hello everyone, I have two sets of lever hoods for Dura-Ace ST-7400 STI brake/shift levers to offer, in NOS/NIP condition. 1 set for first generation levers, without tabs at the bottom of the hoods. 1 set for second generation levers, with tabs at the bottom of the hoods. Asking US$ 50...

Hello everyone, I have three Dura-Ace BB-7700 bottom brackets to offer, all in NOS/NIB condition, including the pictured plastic tool. 2 pieces 70x109.5, Italian threaded 1 piece 68x109.5, English threaded Asking US$ 60 each, plus postage from Switzerland. Economy, no signature or tracking...

Hello everyone, I have three Dura-Ace HB-7700 front hubs to offer, all in NOS/NIB condition, including matching QR skewers. 2 pieces with 36 hole drilling 1 piece with 28 hole drilling, slotted for aero spokes Asking US$ 50 each, plus postage from Switzerland. Economy, no signature or...

Hello everyone, In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several ski brands jumped on the MTB boom bandwagon, seeking to balance their highly seasonal business with some summer cash flow. If there was a snowboard brand which did likewise, I can't remember it, but I would be pleased to learn otherwise...