Alright.

It was a very friendly and interesting event. Very laid back atmosphere, nice bikes and great people. I met some old acquaintances, and also made some new friends. I only had my phone with me, so the picture quality is variable at best.

The old Rotterdam Hofplein station made for a nice background:




Some of the great bike names from the Rotterdam area were there. The blue jacket belongs to Manus Brinkman, and the man in the light blue pullover is Wout Verhoeven. I managed to have a talk with Wout later today and it seems his role in the the Dutch bicycle industry was bigger than I suspected. He imported a lot of Belgian frames for other big names in Holland, like Jan Groot (of Vittorio fame - I now know who built my Vittorio Populair) and Teun Visser (Visser Vainqueur), who sold them as cheaper alternatives alongside their own hand-built machines.




This was a particularly nice Manus Brinkman, and in my size too. It took one of my newly-made friends to persuade me not to buy it by telling me that the asking price was really way too high. * sigh *




Interesting and rare, a Steyr-Daimler-Puch Vent Noir, in red:




This Regina box was cool:




I did buy some nice stuff, though. The nicest being a Simplex derailleur set I'd been looking for. It was actually NIB, but when I said I had no interest in the box I got a nice discount:




Another nice find were these Legnano condorino bars:







And a mystery derailleur, but I'll dedicate a separate thread to that.