Early 50s La Gazelle - Eau-de-Nil 🛠️ The Merlot Aftermath 🍷

Aaaaannnnnndddd ....he's off ...its begun! 😁
Going to be a good un this one.....that saddle gave the game away moment I saw it I thought that looks in rather good order......old leather saddles speak volumes about the old bikes they sit on.

I think I know what that bike is......😁
Enjoy this one woz.....I think you've landed a peach.....cheap merlot never tasted so good 👍
 
Aaaaannnnnndddd ....he's off ...its begun! 😁
Going to be a good un this one.....that saddle gave the game away moment I saw it I thought that looks in rather good order......old leather saddles speak volumes about the old bikes they sit on.

I think I know what that bike is......😁
Enjoy this one woz.....I think you've landed a peach.....cheap merlot never tasted so good 👍

You'll love this shot - saddle is complete with previous owners oily rag.

It's still there - I'm hoping when I pull it out and unwrap it there will be a puncture repair kit, some bistro money in old French Francs and a nude picture of his wife.

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You'll love this shot - saddle is complete with previous owners oily rag.

It's still there - I'm hoping when I pull it out and unwrap it there will be a puncture repair kit, some bistro money in old French Francs and a nude picture of his wife.

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Looks like a pearl that saddle?
I bet there's a crusty bit of baguette and cheese wrapped up in that!
Undoing my Gramps mudguards I found he'd used a washer....not just any washer....just like these mudguards quality fit is an expensive thing..
Well so was the blooming washer!....

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Bloody hell. First issue

Got the seat-post to move and loosened. Can't get the bastard to lift though. Think the post may be overlised or something.
 
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Sweating like a pig, and needed a breather. Going to try some upward blows with an hammer.
 
Come back to it....when bottom brackets out you could nut n washer a bit of studding and make a slide hammer affair?

Top idea there mate! Another expat has arrived on holiday - he's a former Scottish Rugby player and got some bulk about him, so two of us may do the job. Really don't want to mess the saddle up. Saddle is a Pyrma and it's a beauty.
 
Come back to it....when bottom brackets out you could nut n washer a bit of studding and make a slide hammer affair?
This, less chance of deforming anything than other forms of brutality

But a part of me wants to see you on the floor, camera timer on, daddy long legs pushing down on the frame, you holding unto a rod slid through a drilled hole in the post, pulling as hard as you can while wearing one of them beer hats, modified to take wine bottles.
 
Top idea there mate! Another expat has arrived on holiday - he's a former Scottish Rugby player and got some bulk about him, so two of us may do the job. Really don't want to mess the saddle up. Saddle is a Pyrma and it's a beauty.
It will come out....keep feeding it wet stuff....move it were it moves...so if it goes up s bit and then down keep doing that up down up down...👍 Is it a an open top seatpost or a domed top?
 
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