Royal Fabric touring

[james1985]

I've just been and picked this up. I had to, it spoke to me. I really really like it.

Anyone know what year it is?
Been told 49-52 ish?

 

[chickendrumsticks]

Royal Fabric? Really? Tell us more please. Who? When? Where?

 

[james1985]

Royal Fabric? Really? Tell us more please. Who? When? Where?

Royal Fabric St Etienne is what the head badge says, the down tube writing is very faded. The paint is very reasonable I will get better photos Tomorrow.

It has bull horn shaped brake levers, the brakes themselves are like centre pull rollercam jobbies.
It's a 3 speeder
The rear rack is colour coded to the frame, the front one is cast alloy.
The dynamo and rear light work. Need to sort the front one.

Rear hub needs a service, and the wheel needs truing.

It's got a modern tyre on the front so I'm hopefully going to put a pair of Michelin World Tours on.

Then I'm going to ride it quite a bit. Hopefully il get to L'eroica 2021

 

[Jamiedyer]

It looks really lovely and imagine it rides nicely.

Jamie

 

[OldTel]

Re:

Hi, nice ! That looks like a nice catch, it has some nice parts so it must of been up the range a bit, it does look fifties, and check out https://encycloduvelo.fr/simon-freres-royal-fabric/ for some more info. A similar example can be found at https://forum.tontonvelo.com/viewtopic. ... mp;t=27491 . Terry

 

[garanti_construit]

Lovely bike! Beautiful.

 

[james1985]

Thank you all for responding.

I have serviced the hubs, trued the rear wheel but it needs a couple of spokes.
Replaced the brake blocks and change the seat post as it was too short.
Managed to get the headlight working, and it has a yellow bulb in, how fantastically French is that.

Including both racks, guards, dynamo and lights it weighs a shade under 34lbs which I reckon is not to be shifted at.

Got some more photos ...