• They are very like them.

    That bike is a great modern interpretation.
    Nitto post?
    I had my ‘54 Fleur De Lys Gillott built up with Superbe pro track gear and a dura ace stem in the early noughties.

    It was great.
    Until I crashed it.
    😖😔

  • Thank you. Yep Nitto post, stem and bars. I spent a lot of time oggling stuff on https://www.tracksupermarket.com/ and when I got this frame it seemed too good an opportunity to miss. The bars are the closest bend I could get to the Reynolds "TT Special" bend - I've got one to go on another build in progress.

    Bit of an odd one picking parts for a 90s repro - using period parts seemed wrong and using 90s parts just because it was a 90s bike also seemed off.
    I suspect you've seen the modern Alex Singer bikes? Real knee rubbers. http://www.cycles-alex-singer.fr/catalogue.html I wanted to do something like that but for a British fixed gear.

  • I suspect you've seen the modern Alex Singer bikes? Real knee rubbers.

    Yeah, they’re insanely nice.
    As were the short lived René Herse reboot made by Mike Kone and Jan Heine.

    It’s a shame that so much modern componentry is just fucking ugly imho. Chainsets and mechs especially.

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