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 / Soyo Long grips / Philippe fluted alloy
stock undrilled track fork, Zeus flat-top fork crown / Stronglight A9 needle bearings
Maillard Piste / DT Swiss Competition / Mavic Monthlery Légère / Tufo S33 Profi
Maillard Piste double fixed / DT Swiss Competition / Mavic Monthlery Légère / Tufo S33 Profi
165mm Nervar track cranks / 43T Gebhardt track chainwheel / Specialités T.A. Axix Light
Selle Royal Dolphin, suede / Stronglight Aero
Look / KMC Z
17T for road use / 13T 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 / Soyo Long grips / Philippe fluted alloy
stock undrilled track fork, Zeus flat-top fork crown / Stronglight A9 needle bearings
Maillard Piste / DT Swiss Competition / Mavic Monthlery Légère / Tufo S33 Profi
Maillard Piste double fixed / DT Swiss Competition / Mavic Monthlery Légère / Tufo S33 Profi
165mm Nervar track cranks / 43T Gebhardt track chainwheel / Specialités T.A. Axix Light
Selle Royal Dolphin, suede / Stronglight Aero
Look / KMC Z
17T for road use / 13T 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)