Posted 10 years ago
Agustin
(52 items)
A rare vintage racing byke.
Is french, The mark is stamped in the square
Gear shift lever in the upright seat tubel, close to the crown of two gears
Is french, The mark is stamped in the rear fork
I NEED ANY INFORMATION OF THIS BYKE
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE !!!
wow!!! Agustin!!! a total 180 form your other postings. But I could see why you buy this beautiful bike!! very beautiful!!
Thank you Sean the categorie is wrong in the other Post. !!!
hmm...this is unusual. Simplex made derailleurs for most of the french (and other countries') bicycle makers but I never heard of a Simplex bike. This lever-shift front derailleur can be found in Peugeot bicycles like this:
http://velo-orange.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/peugeot-px50.html
There's a lot of material on Simplex here:
http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Scanned_material_-_Simplex.html
And also an article from Wikipedia on Lucien Charles Hippolyte Juy, the man who invented the Simplex derailleur, but I couldn't find any mention to a bike:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Juy
Finally, not even Sheldon "The Bike God" Brown does list Simplex as a bike maker in his website (check the "Brands" menu):
http://sheldonbrown.com/velos.html
You can try this French forum, specialized in vintage french race bikes:
http://veloretrocourse.proboards.com/
These guys will probably help you.
Anyway, this is a good mistery and a nice "vélo de course". Congrats!
And for the news: apparently Simplex supplied also the fork ends...reading Sheldon Brown's article you can find a clue:
http://sheldonbrown.com/velos.html#hanger
Dear mcheconi, Thank you for the great work, you've had in order to clarify the matter of the bicycle.
I could not thank you before because I was with a few drawbacks.
My very best regards. And thank you again
Agustin, I am glad I could help. But we still can't tell who made your bicycle. We know for sure that it was not Simplex. The marks shown on the rear fork relate to the fact that Simplex supplied the fork ends with their derailleurs. I believe you will be able to find who made the bike at that french forum. Good luck!
MAGISTRONI is part of crank set . Made in Italy but i never know if is all Italian .
Handlebar ? and Hubs ?
Ciao
Thank you Hornet, yes part of crank set is Italian MAGISTRONI, but all the rest if it si french.
Thank you again.
Here is the explantion of MAGISTRONI.
http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2011/2/2/fine-italian-steel.html