I had a thread on this bike but it seems not updatable so starting a new thread.
I'll make this short to catch up

I bought a Dino Deloni frame off eBay for cheap a couple years ago and posted here looking for info about it.


Turns out it was a promotional bike for perfume maker Lancome


I added some parts and rode it for a while


I like the bike but it always looked so out of proportion with the extra long chain stays and I did not like the look of that 24" fork with the eyelets on the ends.

So fast forward to now. I shortened the chain satays to tuck the rear tire in close to the downtube. Added cast dropouts with a derailleur hanger from a discarded frame and also used the shifter mounts from that same frame. I was able to find a Quuintana Roo 650 carbon fork on eBay. I put it together over the last two evenings and look at it now! It has been completely transformed into a proper looking Lo Pro. I rode it around the neighborhood and it rides and tracks pretty good. I had to use an old spare wheel since my good wheel has a couple broken spokes now. It's not the lightest at 19lbs but not bad for a cheap frame that has less than $200 into it total.

It still needs work. I need to clean up my brazing some and install nicer parts, but it is ridable and now looks as it should.

Looks proper!

A few questions, all of them purely out of idle curiosity.

What was involved in getting those chainstays that much shorter? I'm guessing you had to replace the entire rear triangle, but what do I know? If torch work was involved, did you do the work yourself or have it done?

Can you take the rear wheel off or put it back on with the tire inflated? From the look of things, I'm guessing you have to have a deflated tire for both operations. (I have a bike like that; it rides great but it is a bit of a nuisance if I want to take the rear wheel off for anything other than a flat.)

interesting bike, thanks for sharing

Impressive work!

Shortening them was fairly straight forward. I figured out how much shorter they needed to be, cut the dropouts off and brazed on the new dropouts. Then moved the seat stays into place, trimmed them to the correct length and brazed them to the dropouts. I did the work myself.
The wheel does not come off inflated but for the most part I only take them off if they are flat

Why not use vertical dropouts?

I used these because they were free.

Now it looks like a proper lo-pro!

Forks not bent. Everything else, however, is.

If one of these was near me, I've love to ride one and see how it feels.

From the story, it appears that there's not another one on earth.

And what a story! Respect.

cdaniels Odd little one, and you did you did justice to it! Interestingly, all the Trophée Lancome Schauff bikes here on the German market have dropped seat stays (yes I see not even that German newspaper ad version has it), shorter wheelbase (but not as short as yours now) and (somewhat more) proper droupouts. Whats funny about them is people, who know its a joke bike are asking way to few money, thinking its a crap (and unsellable, which is true) others try to advertise it as some niche high end product and asking 7-800 or in some cases 1500 eur (although thats a like new one on its first day) which is ridiculous

It rings a bell, who knows more about these.





martl Guck mal... finally a proper(ized) Trophée Lancome...

This one had the flat plate dropouts that had no provisions for a derailleur. Maybe it was an early or late version. Also there is no serial number on it