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Art Bike- Old French found frame, maybe a Mercier?

By MecanoGitane on 10/22/2011. Bike tags: Road bike | art bike | artbike | french | mercier | more tags >>
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Mercier?/60cm/1970's

French

stock

TA

Chatillonaise

Campagnolo

Universal Mod. 68

Ha!

Frame found in a free pile, unknown brand. Hand painted with artist's acrylics, just for fun!

People who friended this bike williamblakeetc, velocepedestrian, cannonhugodale, fastfixie, the fumingator, per.k
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Multi Colors

Submitted by fastfixie on 04/08/2012.

This bike makes me happy!

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Thanks for the interest!

Submitted by MecanoGitane on 12/13/2011.

Hi all, sorry for the delay in replying and thanks for all the comments. This biuke is definitely still in the "project" phase, and now has a matching Universal Mod. 68 on the rear. I'm still kind of feeling out where I'm going to go with the project, ie: upright or drop, fenders and rack or not, etc...

Still don't know the maker. It has French threads (righty-tighty on the fixed cup), and those excellent lugs, but not much else to go on.

I do trust my own work for the most part, but also like the control of being able to brake on either or both wheels, so I really don't feel comfortable riding much with only one brake.

Thanks again!

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has a nice patina

Submitted by Franzen on 10/23/2011.

but its beauty won't help you stop if that front brake fails...

nice project though.

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Well, it's a Universal...

Submitted by eaglerock on 10/23/2011.

...and most people don't intend to live forever.

Still, though: Oscar Egg headlugs! That pretty much screams French or Swiss. What's the BB threading? The adjustable cups are the same size/thread on Swiss and French, but the French fixed cup threads righty-tighty (i.e., WRONG), and the Swiss driveside threads lefty-tighty.

But the TA crankset is the Pro 3 (3-arm 116 BCD), right?

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but what if you ride two

Submitted by velocepedestrian on 10/24/2011.

but what if you ride two brakes and both fail? if your worried about brakes failing you shouldn't be riding a bike. if your confident enough to ride one brake you are probably confident enough in your bicycle mechanical skills to know it wont fail.

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You're probably too young to have heard the term

Submitted by eaglerock on 10/24/2011.

"belt and braces"; it's unlikely that both brakes will fail at exactly the same instant. Whereas with only one brake, only one break has to fail.

Anyway, in a lot of states, the Vehicle Code requires bikes with freewheels to have two brakes. I don't know whether that's the rule in Washington State or not.

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Incidentally, WA law states

Submitted by bobfike on 10/24/2011.

Incidentally, WA law states "Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake which will enable the operator to make the braked wheels skid on dry, level, clean pavement."

I've never had a caliper brake capable of doing this, and I'm not sure I'd want to.

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