Markeologist

One of the best, the accomplishments of the 80s Gitanes is unparalleled and the livery on the 83-84 and 87 Team Pros is just oh so perfect…striking while not being garish.

browngw 

Some recent photos of my circa 1965 Dilecta Le Blanc. The bike was treated to an upgraded Suntour rear derailleur and some nos Bluemels mudguards. My fleet of bikes has been diminishing for the last few years, but this one hangs on.

Hproduguidon

il manque 2 ou 3 centimètres pour être à ma taille

BTinNYC 

RestoMod UO-18

Massimiliano

This is the right idea. I put a set of Left Bank bars on my wife's mixte. For some reason they make it a lot of fun to ride, and I find myself coming up with reasons to ride it. It feels like steering a sailboat with a long tiller or something.

Panurgist

Like this?

VO porteur bars and City Bike brake levers. I really like the bar-ends for shifting.

cyclic_eric

It's fun seeing options online. This one from GS Cicleria flickr site

canuto

Yes! That's the idea.

SilverSteve

Greetings all French bike likers,
I acquired a nice Peugeot Mont Cenis frameset from 1986, lovely yellow color, nice and clean, and in 25.5" size which will (hopefully) fit me. Learned after owning it a while that it takes a certain type of seat post, which doesn't use a seat post tube binder bolt. It fastens into the tube like a handlebar stem, using an expander slug on the bottom and a through-post bolt to tighten it in position. Began the quest to find one but haven't yet; believing that they're more rare than hen's teeth..! Hopefully someone on the Forum who is a French road bike maven, enthusiast, connoisseur can help me find one of those seat posts. The seat tube diameter for the post is 25.92 mm approximately, if that is helpful. I'm itching to ride the bike but gotta find the proper seat post for it before going forward in any aspect. Anyone who has any clues or leads can contact me via e-mail: stevee2012@yahoo.com and hopefully I can get lucky and find one. Thank you all..
https://www.bikeforums.net/attachmen...1&d=1715017027

SilverSteve

Now, THAT'S a groovy color purple..! 👍👌

Aubergine 

That was not one of Peugeot's better ideas . . . . You could search on eBay and Le Bon Coin (leboncoin.fr) for "tige de selle Peugeot" and wade through the results. Even in France those are hard to come by.

ehcoplex 

Also, including “quill” in your search terms might help.

santa fe 2926 

Would this work? Even if you have to add a shim….

Chombi1 

The expanding seatpost is not a bad idea, it actually presents a cleaner way of anchoring the seatpost, in lieu of external clamps on the frame. The example from Atax is what Peugeot supplied on their midrange bikes. The post itself works good enough, but the big amount of Delrin is suspect to eventually cracking and falling apart from stress, age and exposure. That detail could be considered not a good idea from Atax.
I would also hesitate using the expanding seatposts on non-steel frames (aluminum and CF.), because, the pressure from the expanding wedge could damage/rupture the seat tube.

Guy Retreau

B.Carre 971 frame, mostly French with DFV bar and stem, Normandy hubs, Simplex seat pillar, Ideale 90 saddle, TA cranks, Huret derailleur and shifter.

cyclic_eric

BTW, it’s not too hard, in my opinion, to make your own quill seat post.
Quill wedges are available in a few diameters, and then get a screw to match the seat post length required.
Obtain a non-quill seat post of appropriate diameter and… with a little searching there are a few sites explaining the details.
Don’t despair, it’s totally doable, and there are others to show you the way.

noglider 

Yup, I did it. I think I didn't even make measurements. I bought an aluminum straight seatpost and a steel stem that was long so I could harvest the wedge and bolt. I cut the seatpost at an angle and then eyeballed how the fit was. It wasn't right, so I cut again. I might have filed it down a bit, too.