1961 Frejus
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Great looking, well used bike!
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Dude! That is one great looking saddle! Total score on a great old bike! The saddle should be carefully inspected and lubed up with some Proofide. It should last forever. I love those old thick leather saddles, they seem to have a magical quality that the newer ones can't seem to match. Congratulations!
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Nice touring bike, 1960s style!
Very graceful fork.
Quite the narrow range triple... half-step plus, uh, half-step! (back when men were men)
Not a bad combo of period correct and newer components.
Very graceful fork.
Quite the narrow range triple... half-step plus, uh, half-step! (back when men were men)
Not a bad combo of period correct and newer components.
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That really is a cool feature and thanks for drawing my attention to it rootboy. I'm in the middle of fitting mudguards to my Morris (just painted the stays black gloss) and found myself wondering if the brackets could be bent out like KonAaron Snake's Frejus (beautiful, btw, KA S!) but then realised the rest of the work that would need doing, like threading the ends of the stays, finding a male & female nut junction for the end and all the time searching for it all would take and gave up. It could an interesting project though...
It does make me wonder if Frejus commissioned those fittings or whether they were generic at the time… I notice the seat lug is of a kind common on 'city bikes' in Italy at the time, although I'm not sure if they all came from the same maker or were in fashion and produced by different makers. It's a very pretty style, I think. Here are a couple of variations on the theme, snapped on the streets of Verona, Italy:
A Galetti:
[IMG] IMG_6606 by Dawes-man, on Flickr[/IMG]
A Chesini:
[IMG] IMG_6544 by Dawes-man, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Great bike! Make sure you have enough of that stem in the steerer.
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This is a celluloid mudguard from a pre-war Evans but it shows you what's involved. You would need to use a strong glue.
[IMG] Mudguard repair by Dawes-man, on Flickr[/IMG]
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It does make me wonder if Frejus commissioned those fittings or whether they were generic at the time… I notice the seat lug is of a kind common on 'city bikes' in Italy at the time, although I'm not sure if they all came from the same maker or were in fashion and produced by different makers. It's a very pretty style, I think. Here are a couple of variations on the theme, snapped on the streets of Verona, Italy:
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Just came across this on Classic Lightweights, an early '60 Frejus that looks to my untrained eye just like yours. Could they be related?
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Great bike, Aaron. These patina-d gems make me a little self-conscious that my own modest collection stretches back no further in history than the last Russian Olympics.
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Just came across this on Classic Lightweights, an early '60 Frejus that looks to my untrained eye just like yours. Could they be related?
Mine ('63) has one on the seat tube, just above the main Frejus crest.
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Very Nice Bike...Have fun with it. With Frejus, the C&R serial number registry helps, so early 1960's looks about right. It looks like it is in good shape...
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If you check the C/R list you'll notice that this is actually registered on it!
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Cool, it's like your provenance, kinda. My frame & fork's serial # is listed there too, but it's an unusual run of numbers, from the early 70s & possibly earlier, that don't really "fit" anywhere. When I sent pics to the webmaster there, I still had about 2/3s of the old headbadge decal, since removed, so it's listed, just not pretty enough for a centerfold shot, LOL. But I don't care what she looks like, this frame is my baby.
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Is turned slightly, it has been on a frame table and fork checker and is actually straight.
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I have a knack for making my bikes look bad in photos I think.
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Later that same century.... I got "some" decent pics here, but you probably know, sometimes pics come out better than others. That's why I take a lot, that way, I usually get at least some right. I just realized, our seat tube clusters are the same, but our fork crowns are a little different, for sure. I'll try to grab a better close-up sometime, and that might be a useful identifier, for other folks, trying to date their Frejus/Freji. Obviously, this is after riding through old leaves, around Magnuson Park. It's like mulch, but sticks everywhere.
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^^^ one of the most beautiful bikes on the forum...the panels are hawwwt.
Spaceman, yours looks a good bit later. I do like the bars a lot...they seem nice and high. I've never managed to get stache bars comfortable.
Maybe a show your frejus thread?
Spaceman, yours looks a good bit later. I do like the bars a lot...they seem nice and high. I've never managed to get stache bars comfortable.
Maybe a show your frejus thread?