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Old 03-02-21 | 01:20 PM
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Bikes: 1967 Paramount; 1982-ish Ron Cooper; 1978 Eisentraut "A"; two mid-1960s Cinelli Speciale Corsas; and others in various stages of non-rideability.

If you want to redecal (okay, they're stickers, not decals) that TdF, you can get good looking repros from Greg Softly at Cyclomondo here. I put a set on my brother-in-law's early 70s Gitane Tdf and it looks good.

Do not worry about Greg being in Australia. I have bought from him twice now; he is responsive and you'll get your stuff pretty quickly.

Nice score, BTW. That looks like the not-so-common Ideale seat with the aluminum (I think) plates instead of rails. Too bad the leather is a bit, shall we say, swaybacked. I hope it is still rideable

The friend who got me into cycling BITD had one of these (a lovely shade of blue) and it was a fine machine. He replaced the bar and stem with a 3ttt stem and Cinelli bar. I've asked him how he got a slightly larger-than-standard diameter Cinelli bar into a standard-diameter 3ttt stem (oh, that crazy Cino Cinelli and his proprietary dimensions). All he will say is "it wasn't easy."
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