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Old 08-27-16 | 12:06 PM
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Bikes: It's complicated.

New fender source

Won a bid on eBay france for a nice set of vintage fenders, the buyer replied with his french email address attached. I think it got by the eBay sensors since it had a "fr" extension...So I emailed back, (with heavy usage of google translate) asking if he had more of the same. I got pictures of piles of parts, and I mean giant piles of parts, the kind of piles that le mordu velo ancien français might see and start smiling and crying at the same time. He picked out a few sets of garde boue, took some pics, and sent them to me. I selected a few, we negotiated a price, and Friday I received them.


Trois inox, quatre aluminium





A little elbow grease, they can look like this:
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