The Boy's Jeanne d'Arc
By The Boy Sebastian on 10/20/2008.
Bike tags: Track bike | 531 | french | lejeune | long point lugs |
LeJeune Piste, 57cm C-C, Reynolds 531 steel tubing, long point lugs
Nitto B123 chromed steel track bar / Velox Tressostar 90 cloth bar tape, diamond weaved / Philippe fluted alloy
Reynolds 531 fork blades, Zeus flat-top fork crown / Stronglight A9 needle bearings
Maillard Piste / DT Swiss Revolution / Mavic Monthlery Légère / Tufo S33 Profi
Maillard Piste double fixed / DT Swiss Revolution / Mavic Monthlery Légère / Tufo S33 Profi
165mm Nervar track cranks / 48T Stronglight Type 63 chainwheel / Specialités T.A. open bearings
Ideale 80 Type Record / Sakae Ringyo fluted alloy
Maillard Route / Vertex
19T for road race use / 14T for training in the Ferry Dusika velodrome
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LeJeune Piste, 57cm C-C, Reynolds 531 steel tubing, long point lugs
Nitto B123 chromed steel track bar / Velox Tressostar 90 cloth bar tape, diamond weaved / Philippe fluted alloy
Reynolds 531 fork blades, Zeus flat-top fork crown / Stronglight A9 needle bearings
Maillard Piste / DT Swiss Revolution / Mavic Monthlery Légère / Tufo S33 Profi
Maillard Piste double fixed / DT Swiss Revolution / Mavic Monthlery Légère / Tufo S33 Profi
165mm Nervar track cranks / 48T Stronglight Type 63 chainwheel / Specialités T.A. open bearings
Ideale 80 Type Record / Sakae Ringyo fluted alloy
Maillard Route / Vertex
19T for road race use / 14T for training in the Ferry Dusika velodrome
"Hanging gracefully from the ceiling at Gene’s is an alluring number called the Le Jeune — a track model, very clean, no gears, no brakes, just eighteen pounds of absolute, unrelenting purism. Pristine, tempting. By nature, though, Bikeman is a dilettante, and the track bike smacks of product endorsements and dirt under the nails. “People who buy Le Jeune track bikes are the kind who get hot about where a front fork bends,” a salesman says, expecting to be understood."
(Owen Edwards / BIKE MAN, New York Magazine, early 70s)