I picked up this Follis today. I'm not quite sure what I plan to do with it. It's not my size and so I'll probably end up selling it after getting it road worthy. The bike was repainted by the PO who did a pretty good job. He masked off the decals, the chrome, and head tube. The paint job looks good and the decals are great.

The bike may have decent tubing (reynolds 531?). It has forged simplex dropouts and the seatpost diameter is 26.8. The stem is weird; it measures 20.2 and has some funky British handlebars with very cool engravings. The bars had some pretty nice black cinelli plugs. The wheels are fairly nondescript high flange hubs (normandy? with "Bloc G" skewers), cyclo competition freewheel, and mavic tubular rims. The tubulars are old but they hold air. The stronglight 93 crank is pretty nice and the simplex criterium RD is fully functional. The brakes say "racer" but they don't say mafac.

I have a set of nice 27 inch alloy wheels lying around that I'll probably use to turn this bike into a townie with 1 x 6 gearing and upright bars. This is the bike as found in the wild.

I also wanted to give a shout out to [MENTION=333224]juvela[/MENTION] and [MENTION=413240]francophile[/MENTION] for helping me suss this bike out while I was trying to figure out whether to buy it or not.

Edit: the weird stem the bike came with is totally wrong for the bike. Not surprisingly a French Atax stem I had in my parts bin fit perfectly.

This is the bike as found in the wild: