So often at what passes for bicycle stores today, the young employees are disparaging of nice vintage French bicycles. Since their experience includes lowball Chinese mountain bikes as "normative", a cyclist riding a classic French bicycle just doesn't get the respect and service one might expect. (Anquetil notwithstanding. And Eddy rode a PX-10 as a neo-pro in 1967. But we digress) Since we sold not only French bicycles ( Motobecane, Peugeot, Turin, Jeunet, LaPierre, Olympic Sport and many more) but also bikes from Belgium (Superia), Switzerland (Mondia, Allegro, Tigra, Mairag) and Spain (Zeus) with at least some metric dimensions, we're sympathetic.
Call us with your replacement parts requests. No, we do not have everything.
But we do make an effort and can almost always find a functional solution if not the original part.
Standard BSC stems are too big to fit your classic French bike. We recently acquired some nice lathe tooling just for this problem. Now, we can modify some, but not all, handlebar stems to fit the smaller Metric size. $35 machining charge with a stem purchase. We can't cut _every_ stem but many models are suitable.
This 29.95 adjustable stem is $64.95 when machined to Metric dimensions
Here's a modern tall adjustable stem going on a French bike
HANDLEBARS END UP A FULL FIVE INCHES TALLER!
and you can quickly adjust the height with an allen key any time you like
For metric pedals, we recommend machining your cranks from 14mm to 9/16-inch. That's a difference of 0.0013 inches - we take out a small curl of aluminum about the thickness of a human hair. Service charge $2 per side or $4 the pair.
If you have a French crank, you might want to look at our selection of classic chainrings
In seatposts, we carry standard $20 seatposts (300 to 330mm in natural silver aluminum or black finish )
all the intermediate sizes
- 25.4mm
- 25.6mm
- 25.8mm
- 26.0mm
- 26.2mm
- 26.4mm
- 26.6mm
- 26.8mm
- 27.0mm
- besides 27.2
- and all the modern diameters
- and a few vintage posts
For classic Sport bikes, we even carry a special 400mm ( yes! 320mm of useful length!)
in the rare 24.0mm diameter, $ - out- .
New 2008 model not yet received, write to be notified when in
For bottom brackets ( crank bearing assemblies) We have many original parts and a good selection of modern replacements both for French (m35x1) and for Swiss (the same but with a reversed right cup) frame threads.If you have a damaged fork, we do alignments, we have original vintage forks, we have some replacements in the original dimensions and if all else fails we can switch the front of your bicycle to a BSC fork, stem and headset. Don't despair!
In gear trains, we are one of the last places on earth with good support for Helicomatic systems and Atom-Maillard-Normandy hub service parts.
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