Bike Forums - Collecting certain components?

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Originally Posted by gugie (Post 17761576)

Yessir! Saw it, had to have it. I've purchased from this guy before, always a straight shooter. He even went out of his way to find correct parts for it and gave me a great "bundled" price. Doing research, we discovered it never had a front derailleur. Good thing, as the correct shifter would be a suicide style, reach down and grab the lever type. Those are rare, and the people that have them want more (a lot more) than the frame cost.

I'm causing some consternation here over my decision to repaint. I'll build it up first and ride it around before aI do anything. There may be a frame repair to do. When I do repaint, I'll have the local wet paint expert that does lots of restorations to do it right-even though that'll probably be half (or more) of the total cost of the bike. This old gal is in her 60's, and although she's a looker for her age, why not turn her back to the height of her beauty? I don't want to turn her into something she wasn't.

And that yellow and blue paint job, with pinstripes: as someone else pointed out, only the French can do that and still make it look right.

Cool! I had it in my watchlist for a while, but it was too small. I've bought a few things from the seller also. Bang up guy. I actually bought the champagne ladies frame/fenders/chain guard/headlight he had up at the same time as yours. He threw in the original rear rack which wasn't advertised in the listing.

I love original paint and personally would leave it, especially with that cool paint job. That's just patina! Glad to hear you'll do it justice if you do repaint it. I'm excited to follow along. Keep us in the loop!