Dropped off a Jeunet Captivante frame and fork at Southwest Frameworks and had a nice chat with Mr. Cheaklas today.

The bike: Jeunet Captivante 'gas pipe' straight tube frame. My guess is it's a Jeunet 600 (or lower) model. Unversel crankset, French threaded, claw derailleur hanger, Huret (I think) rear derilleur, and pictured below with Modolo Speedy levers from my Peugeot.

History: Purchased new by my father in 1973 for $135 at the Tainan BX (Base Exchange) while stationed overseas in the Air Force during Viet Nam. Bike was then transported by the Chinese Air Force (what a different time it was then!) to the Pescadores radar site he was assigned to. There he used the bike as transportation around the island. Once on his way to the site he caught the eye of a grazing water buffalo that decided it was anxious to meet my father resulting in an offroad excursion for my dad into a benjo ditch (the water buffalo was unharmed). When my father's tour was over he had the bike transported back to the states where the bike sat in storage until I took an interest and started riding it as a teenager in the 80's where at one point I was hit by a car denting the downtube and taco'ing the front wheel. After replacing the front wheel I continued to ride the bike until I could buy my own, a Peugeot PSN10, also under restoration, but that's another story.

The bike has hung unattended in my father's storage shed for the last 30 years or so. Time has not been kind to it. As my interest in cycling has renewed, due in no small part to no longer being able to run, and I've caught up on other bike projects, I'm moving forward with restoring the bike.

The bike isn't worth anything to anybody but myself and my father. I will travel down the path of a fool and spend exponentially more than the bike was ever, or could ever be worth. But she has history with us. More to come on this journey...