Originally Posted by
wawine
I am afraid you are mistaken. I have actually been in contact with Olivier at Singer, as recently as yesterday. Here is what he had to say, just this morning:
”for the States we sold only racing frames, with a few racks and stems. For Japan, completes traditionnals bicycles for tourind with so much AS spécification. I have to check but the number is probably more than 200. Tomorrow if i have time, i shall post you my own gallery.”
in the States, we did not put fenders on racing bikes in the 1970’s
Ok, Olivier was not running the show 45+ years ago though.
Look at the position of the brake pads on the front brake, the room above the tire, which is not a typical 22-23mm race tire of the 1970's,