Show us your Belgian bikes!
03-14-17, 03:00 PM
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03-14-17, 04:12 PM
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03-14-17, 08:04 PM
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show us your Belgian bikes
Here is the 1974? Flandria donated to the Bike exchange. Mostly first Gen Dura Ace. We sold it last weekend to a very appreciative gentleman as a gift for an old friend.
03-14-17, 10:25 PM
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My MX Leader has been posted in other threads but not here before so I get another chance to show off my bike.
I’ve never seen another one painted like it before.
The most recent configuration:
The latest configuration for my Merckx by NBend, on Flickr
Back in 2011, Eddy autographed it for me at the Axel Merckx Granfondo in Penticton, BC:
The Autograph! by NBend, on Flickr
I’ve never seen another one painted like it before.
The most recent configuration:
The latest configuration for my Merckx by NBend, on FlickrBack in 2011, Eddy autographed it for me at the Axel Merckx Granfondo in Penticton, BC:
The Autograph! by NBend, on Flickr
03-15-17, 03:43 AM
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Since Tervuren in on my commute, this morning, I distracted my way to the cobblestones of the markt and on the Rue du Poivre.
I took a picture of the number 73 and was not sure that a shop could have hide under the newly cemented facade.
This, toen een oude peij en zijn moukere entered a neighbor house.
Me : "Dag menheer, Was er hier een fietswinkel ?" (was there a bike shop over here)
Him: "Jawell. Ga recht, en den tweede links..." (Yes, firt right, second left...)
Me : "Jomonee. Hier in den stroetje" (No, here)
Him again : "Ah ja ! Wargee! Mo da was dertig jaren geleeden!"
Then another even ouder neighbor came : " nee, Ten minste viertig jaren geleeden! Maschee meer"
Sorry for the local language : in the end they remembered this shop of the seventies as a very good one.
This evening, the shop picture
03-15-17, 01:27 PM
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Since Tervuren in on my commute, this morning, I distracted my way to the cobblestones of the markt and on the Rue du Poivre.
I took a picture of the number 73 and was not sure that a shop could have hide under the newly cemented facade.
This, toen een oude peij en zijn moukere entered a neighbor house.
Me : "Dag menheer, Was er hier een fietswinkel ?" (was there a bike shop over here)
Him: "Jawell. Ga recht, en den tweede links..." (Yes, firt right, second left...)
Me : "Jomonee. Hier in den stroetje" (No, here)
Him again : "Ah ja ! Wargee! Mo da was dertig jaren geleeden!"
Then another even ouder neighbor came : " nee, Ten minste viertig jaren geleeden! Maschee meer"
Sorry for the local language : in the end they remembered this shop of the seventies as a very good one.
This evening, the shop picture
03-15-17, 02:29 PM
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Copie de IMG_1623 As it is now
Have a look on https://www.google.be/maps/@50.82309...8i6656!6m1!1e1 to see how it was just before the cement.
As you'll see, the house shop was already altered
03-15-17, 05:07 PM
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Since Tervuren in on my commute, this morning, I distracted my way to the cobblestones of the markt and on the Rue du Poivre.
I took a picture of the number 73 and was not sure that a shop could have hide under the newly cemented facade.
This, toen een oude peij en zijn moukere entered a neighbor house.
Me : "Dag menheer, Was er hier een fietswinkel ?" (was there a bike shop over here)
Him: "Jawell. Ga recht, en den tweede links..." (Yes, firt right, second left...)
Me : "Jomonee. Hier in den stroetje" (No, here)
Him again : "Ah ja ! Wargee! Mo da was dertig jaren geleeden!"
Then another even ouder neighbor came : " nee, Ten minste viertig jaren geleeden! Maschee meer"
Sorry for the local language : in the end they remembered this shop of the seventies as a very good one.
This evening, the shop picture
03-16-17, 01:07 AM
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Thanks for the picture. Is it safe to assume then that the Liberty bike/frame is at least 45 years old, when the shop closed around 1970?
03-16-17, 05:21 AM
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One more piece of the jigsaw... Mr. Wargee was born in Tervuren on 24.05.1920 and died there on 04.03.1982. He was an independant Belgian coureur, according to this site: Vital WARGEE données personnelles
03-16-17, 06:50 AM
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One of the mechanics as my lbs has one like that, or very close. I've only seen it once, a couple years ago.
03-16-17, 03:14 PM
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Big thanks @Munny for your researches (and the translation!)!
Much enjoyed and appreciated here.
Lucas, you could have saved us a good deal of
if you had posted that brake bridge photo earlier with the fender mount stud. 
At least now me know we are looking at the result of a reworking...
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Big thanks @Munny for your researches (and the translation!)!
Much enjoyed and appreciated here.
Lucas, you could have saved us a good deal of
if you had posted that brake bridge photo earlier with the fender mount stud. At least now me know we are looking at the result of a reworking...
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03-17-17, 03:27 AM
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Big thanks @Munny for your researches (and the translation!)!
Much enjoyed and appreciated here.
Lucas, you could have saved us a good deal of if you had posted that brake bridge photo earlier with the fender mount stud.
At least now me know we are looking at the result of a reworking...
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Big thanks @Munny for your researches (and the translation!)!
Much enjoyed and appreciated here.
Lucas, you could have saved us a good deal of
if you had posted that brake bridge photo earlier with the fender mount stud. At least now me know we are looking at the result of a reworking...
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03-17-17, 09:44 AM
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You're not going to believe this! Today I again studied the rear brake and it's a Weinmann 500. It's stamped on the back too, although I couldn't trace brakes with a red 'label' in the centre AND quick releases. Interesting, my dear Watson. But the real surprise was this: the washer (small metal ring) you see under the bridge to keep the nut in place isn't a washer, but an actual, old Belgian COIN! Was it a lucky charm? You tell me... I'll post a pic soon.
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Here you go. 
03-17-17, 12:36 PM
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Just to confuse more ...
Original
No reworking
Race with winter readiness
And certified as made by Versaevel workshop
Original No reworking
Race with winter readiness
And certified as made by Versaevel workshop
Did not intend to suggest the fender mount stud represented a reworking. Only that it showed frame to be earlier than we had originally suspected. "Reworking" is paint and likely some of the braze-ons.
Thank you again for your very excellent information.
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03-21-17, 01:52 PM
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Still working on the Liberty. Put new shoes on the lady (Vittoria rally tubes, took me 3 days to glue...). Cleaned the handlebar (new tape coming in tomorrow), tried out the new Weinmanns (hope about periode correct: '70, but I simply like them). Cleaned the seatpost (27.2), greased it and put it in again, after cleaning the whole saddle bling-bling. On the ring, keeping the saddle in place on the seatpost it says: "Ideale, made in France". Finally! The French speak English Well, you get an idea. Pics taken in the evening. Gives a bit of a frozen-in-time feeling
Well, you get an idea. Pics taken in the evening. Gives a bit of a frozen-in-time feeling
03-21-17, 03:33 PM
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Those are 160-series levers, by the looks of it. The models with a quick release. Nice. Did they come with cable adjusters as well?
03-22-17, 03:50 PM
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03-22-17, 04:17 PM
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As far as I know it's these: VeloBase.com - Component: Weinmann AG (drilled levers) with a small 'cable guidance thing' on top. I like them too. Put new cables in today. Step by step... (and lots of polishing)
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03-23-17, 08:09 AM
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03-23-17, 09:00 AM
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I realize that it also confirms my being an anorak. 
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Finally took the lady out for a spin. The weather was fine, the Liberty ready and the road whispering to me. This bike is such a delight! She rides (glides!) very smooth and lightly, the steering is direct and it feels like she weighs nothing. Or was it the wind in my back? She is a beauty and it's love, I guess. 