For Sale: Gazelle Piet de Wit frameset Reynolds 653 Stainless steel

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Thanks for the additional information. You're now indeed right. Noblex did even produce the stainless steel parts one year earlier in 1994, It's the year where this bike is from.

Due to paypal issues at my end I cannot go through with the purchase. Good luck to whoever buys this lovely frame

Reynolds 753 and 653 are steel tubesets that have the same constituant elements and external tube profiles as 531. What makes them superior in strength is the level of heat treatment applied. 753 and 653 have the same tube guages (drawn thinner than 531) but as the main tubes of 653 are of a lesser strength than 753 there are (were) frame builders who consider it inferior to the other two sets and would not use it. This Gazelle frame is a bit of a dark horse, as it were. It would appear that the forks and stays are from a different steel manufacturer so to badge it up 653 may be stretching the truth a bit as 653 is very much a tube set.

Out on this.

Come on @dicki. Snap it up!

excellent
will pm fisk to arrange delivery
where is the frame currently ?

will go nicely with this

731OS with P&P Stainless steel rear triangle and forks

The frame is currently in the Netherlands.
Love that 731 OS, I did see it on your Flickr. It also goes nice with my other Gazelle:

ah, an exception very nice, you've done it proud with all the shiny silver bits !
been looking for a long time for one of those

Those frames are hard to find. I kind of accidentaly bought it, when I didn't even knew it was such a nice ride and high end frame. Now I have it several years and won't let it go. I love the stiffnes of the frame. it's just about right. Not as much as Columbus max, but also more then Reynolds 531 I. Now I am looking to upgrade it with another Campagnolo group.

This is now a Gazelle banter thread.

Sold!

Apologies for the thread dredge... but who got this?
Has it been built-up? I'd love to see a photo of it as a complete build....

Incredibly ugly; looks as if it had been regurgitated by a Flemish squid.

What are you talking about?

As above, MCamb has it just right (just add a small pointy beard).

You really think this frame is 'incredibly ugly'?

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I don't think anything in inverted commas. It looks like decor, vulgar decor.

Okay.

Each to their own. I think this frame is class!

Seconded! One of the ones I wish I'd bought at the time

gaad damn! I thought this was for sale again!!

royce hubs on mavic open pro ceramics
da 7400 grouppo
stick shift 2x8 speed

hopefully will be finished by the summer

sounds tasty... CP thread? at least Gazelle thread please...

why do people use Royce hubs? Why not just anodize your testicles? would be lighter ... perhaps it wouldn't be a matching set.