Edward Stately
Finally riding a big boys bike
A friend's beautifully restored Tommasini Super Prestige. The details are amazing.
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1950s Rochet Touring Bicycle
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When you get around to working on it, SimWorks sells cable housings (made for them in a variety of colors by Nissen in Japan) that are the closest thing I know of for old French and Italian bikes. I install a lot of it at work, and it is very high quality housing, for what it's worth. A box of housing only comes with 4 ferrules though, so it's often worth it to order a few extra if you aren't installing it in a bike shop with a bottle of the same ferrules on hand.
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Heritage Outer Cable French for Brake - 3m
This is a complete reproduction of a steel rounded outer cable which used to be produced between 1950 and around 1970. However, this is not just only a reproduction but including an inner liner adapting a modern usage standard, which didn’t come along with in those days, and pulling a brake...
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Cruisin' on my Bluebird
When you get around to working on it, SimWorks sells cable housings (made for them in a variety of colors by Nissen in Japan) that are the closest thing I know of for old French and Italian bikes. I install a lot of it at work, and it is very high quality housing, for what it's worth. A box of housing only comes with 4 ferrules though, so it's often worth it to order a few extra if you aren't installing it in a bike shop with a bottle of the same ferrules on hand.
Heritage Outer Cable French for Brake - 3m
This is a complete reproduction of a steel rounded outer cable which used to be produced between 1950 and around 1970. However, this is not just only a reproduction but including an inner liner adapting a modern usage standard, which didn’t come along with in those days, and pulling a brake...
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thank you so much for this resource!
round wire, no less 🤩
the casing employed by most of the cycle manufacturers in France BITD was produced by the firm of Etablissements Jeunehomme and sold with the brand name of EJAC
the firm was also a maker of brake & gear cables as well as ferrules
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