Gazelle Tour de L'Avenir
By iliketoes on 08/08/2011.
Bike tags: Road bike | Commuter | dutch | frankenbike | lugged |



Gazelle Tour de L'Avenir / 52? / 197?
Nitto Grand Randonneur / Nitto
Stock
I'll check
Shimano Deore / Mavic
stock cottered / stock
Schwinn (ha!)
Welgo / Schwinn
Suntour / Shimano (rear) / Simplex (front)
Weinmann / DiaCompe

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Gazelle Tour de L'Avenir / 52? / 197?
Nitto Grand Randonneur / Nitto
Stock
I'll check
Shimano Deore / Mavic
stock cottered / stock
Schwinn (ha!)
Welgo / Schwinn
Suntour / Shimano (rear) / Simplex (front)
Weinmann / DiaCompe
Almost finished. I've been teaching my roommate about bikes "the hard way". He wanted to ditch his purple Schwinn CrissCross but move over as much of the parts as possible. A trip down to the co-op yielded this mediocre (but not purple) Gazelle frame (stamped dropouts, nice lugs and paint though). The Nitto bars caught his eye before I noticed what he had in his hand, best ten bucks paid ever. I gave him my other Nitto stem (formerly from the Fuji) which is beat up as hell, but really cool (any info?).
Anyways... after going through the associated struggles of dealing with a French-threaded/tube-sized bicycle to fit assorted Japanese parts of differing ages... we have a bike.