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• #2
Hey Mr Stringfellow! I'm from Australia & over the past 3 years have been spending a great deal of time browsing every imaginable vintage cycling site/forum, after falling more than 34 feet from the top floor of my building 6 years ago & suffering surgery upon surgery since then!
Anyway, I've noticed your beautiful collection of bicycles within a number of the aforementioned forums & as a Lemond, LOOK & La Vie Claire NUT since I was aged 11 back in '85 (when I watched my first TDF on TV), I'm über-impressed! I like to think that my collection of 8 bikes (2 "modern" LOOKs & 6 "vintage" LOOKs & TVTs (& a Team Z tricolour, hand-made by the Bilatto Bros from Columbus EL-OS tubing) but yours is phenomenal, on another planet.
Anyway, I imagine after 3 years you have discovered the KG86 decals that you were seeking back then (& I actually noticed within one of the forums that you mentioned that your KG86 was missing a decal or 2) but if not, I know where you can find the EXACT decals that you're after, whether you're after the "Bernard Hinault" upon both sides of the down-tube or the spiel on one side & the "Bernard Hinault" upon the non-drive-side...
Well, it's nice to make your acquaintance if you do receive this!!
Cheers & best wishes from "Down Under", Monsieur Stringfellow...chapeau!!
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Hi Matt
Thank you for your very kind words, Yes I now have the Look Decals. I have myself just 3 weeks ago been diagnosed with MND so the bike collecting is got to stop now as I've got to sort the house out so that I can live on one level. This is a link to my dropbox folder with all the bikes in. Some of the folders are empty as I've not yet photographed the bikes but they are all here. i may not be able to photograph them now as getting about & bending down is getting very difficult. Thanks for getting in contact & it sounds like you have a great collection of bikes a well.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b5freuwvdwrhsjg/AABqB6ZkdRdtQiJ_5EWlrK3da?dl=0
Take care
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Wow, that is a genuinely impressive collection. Just a quick question, but where do you store them all? My GF won't left me have more than 5!
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At the moment about 40-45 in the loft Some more in the front room another 7 in the dining room & there are 6 still to be built up so its just the frames in the workshop along with the various groupset parts & rims & spokes. I don't don't have a girlfriend or wife as such just loads of ladies that either I take out or they take me out as & when it suites. This is something else I did in my life (a Photographer) apart from being a bike Mechanic.
http://www.cwiw.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chris-Weston-Photography-AT-THE-BESTIVAL/149059145162448
https://www.facebook.com/pages/1970-Isle-Of-Wight-Pop-Festival-The-Last-Great-Event/144881208921133
Enjoy
Anyone know where I can get a set of decals for a Look KG86 frame.?
Cheers for any help