Dutchie saying hello.
 

Hi everyone,

My name is stef and I'm from the Netherlands. I've been fixing up vintage bikes as long as I can remember. No high dollar bikes but old French en Dutch touring and race bikes. I've build a cargo bike, welded an broken cargo bike back together that I still use. At the moment I'm making my own folding bike from an old French frame.

My daily bike is a sporty fifties locomotief that I really love. An other one of my favorite bikes is my fifties field find Peugeot race bike. Future projects are a Visser Vainqueur race bike and to build an other cargo bike.

Looking forward at seeing what other people are fixing up and building. And i hope to learn and get inspired for my future projects.

Greetings to you all.

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Welcome, Locomotief ! I fully expect those bikes in the Classic & Vintage forum. Especially looking forward to the Visser Vainqueur. :)

Thanks Hermes

Hi non-fixie unfortunately the Visser Vainqueur is in pretty bad shape, and missing a lot of parts. It was a 10 euro buy. But the frame has cool details and it has very early mafac front brakes. Still not sure what to do with the bike but it will go back on the road in the future.

You can't go wrong for €10. :) And if it rides anywhere near as well as mine, it was a heck of a buy, and well worth getting back on the road.

Mine was in a rather sorry state when I bought it:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...c901d0741e.jpg

But a little work quickly turned it into one of my favorite bikes:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...c2a5c966ed.jpg

Anyway, if you need any more inspiration and encouragement come over to the C&V forum, lots of "enablers" there. ;)

Welcome, Stef.

That's a really nice bike non-fixie mine is in very bad shape compared to yours. It was a touring race bike. I was planning to use it as a parts bike but its growing on me. I'll try to make some pictures next time in my shed.

Thanks bpcyclist !

Welcome Locomotief. We're always pleased to add another "Shed full of bikes" member. Don

Thanks. And yes, please post pics of yours. Any idea who built your frame? Mine looks to have come from the shop of Eddy Martens in Zwevezele.

Welcome Stef. Making your own folding bike must be challenging. Keep us posted on how it goes and add pictures once you get 10 posts

non-fixie my knowledge about frame builders is zero. The frame is bare now. I took off all the parts I wanted to keep and was on my way to the metal yard when I decided to keep the frame. I don't even have pictures off the bike when I got it. It was set up as a single gear many years ago. It had a chain guard and bag carrier on the back. Its rusty but I like the details on the frame.

StanSeven thanks for the welcome. It's the first time I'm building a folding bike so I'm not sure if its fine be a success :)

Three more posts to go ... :)

your bikes looks so classic but elegant.

Unfortunately not my bike but thanks.

Yes! 10 posts done, time to start some threads.

(The picture is my homebuild folding bike project)

Hi non-fixie I found a screenshot of the Visser Vainqueur on my old phone. This is how I found it and what it looked like when I got it. Its totally bare now.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ed3b7d0d41.png

Hello :)

That looks very nice! To me, anyway. ;)

The fork crown looks like a Vagner Nr 11 from here, and the lugs ... Nervex? Anyway, better pictures should ensure further identification. Or perhaps juvela 's eagle eyes. :)

For now I'm guessing it's a hand-built touring frame from the 1950's or early 1960's. Nice parts too.

You did very well for €10! Is it your size?

Awesome! Welcome to the forum