Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

[grantoury]

This is a hard one to categorise - is it a bird, is it a plane, is it Motobecane's answer to the Raleigh Grifter/Chopper, is it a shopper/porteur? Whatever, it had a six speed stick shift and a really cool set of dynamo lighting!

This is more the place for it:

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads...ther-alt-bastardisations-of-bicyclery.456915/

 

[s.e.charles]

I don't think this qualifies as a randonneur or porteur...

maybe not, but i'll bet it sure brings home the bacon!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

This is a hard one to categorise - is it a bird, is it a plane, is it Motobecane's answer to the Raleigh Grifter/Chopper, is it a shopper/porteur? Whatever, it had a six speed stick shift and a really cool set of dynamo lighting!

Remove it please it has no place here. But you knew that.

 

[Woz]

This is more the place for it:

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads...ther-alt-bastardisations-of-bicyclery.456915/

Been posted a few times there. And even more lucrative ones elsewhere on the BMX and MTB side in the past.

@Canuk - please respect the wishes of the OP. He goes over backwards in nourishing us with a finely pointed theme for the duration, and while I know he his open to "flex" this is velo is easily recognisably "non approprié ici".

 

[Woz]

Let's get back in business. When a Pug - a black Pug sings a magic tune .... simple, straightforward, lovely to look at. Pre JPS fags.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Let's get back in business. When a Pug - a black Pug sings a magic tune .... simple, straightforward, lovely to look at. Pre JPS fags.

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That is lovely, amazed the white Delrin mech and lever have survived. The JPS colour scheme was always a favourite of mine.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

My own 1979 Peugeot UE8.

 

[Woz]

That is lovely, amazed the white Delrin mech and lever have survived.

Agree.

To pull off mixing silver and gold is not something easy. A very fine line here trodden to grab attention but in keeping to be be humble too.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Agree.

To pull off mixing silver and gold is not something easy. A very fine line here trodden to grab attention but in keeping to be be humble too.

Thank god I don't have a villa in France it would be like one of those hoarders intervention programmes

 

[non-fixie]

they certainly look sturdy.

and able to go downhill really fast.

Don't underestimate those machines!

They were raced BITD, both on the road ...



... and on the track: