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Thanks both. It’s a wrench to sell it but due to a change in circumstances I’ll only ever end up hanging it on a wall. Let’s be honest, I’ve owned it for over a decade and haven’t managed to get much past collecting the parts. It needs to be with someone who loves it. And rides it.
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Nice work. Keen to see this.
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Meanwhile, here’s a pic of the Jacques Suire shop back in the day (thanks Jacques) with the road racing team assembled outside. Love that Peugeot support vehicle.
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The advice has been a mix of Campagnolo and Spidel, for which I have gathered a decent haul of parts. I’m planning an inventory check from the storage boxes so I’ll post some pics very soon.
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Ha! Got to be worth a try. 🤔
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Yep, agreed. Trouble is all the stickers are vertical – they read downwards rather than left to right. To place one on each side on the downtube would mean creating reproduction stickers, rather than using the NOS ones as shown in the pic.
Which may be the best thing to do…
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I guess the debate here is whether to (a) use original NOS decals, exactly as would have been used in the day, or (b) get some reproduction decals made that match exactly the bike as I found it. I'm leaning towards the former.
As a side note, Jacques has been helping me to answer this question. He sent me a picture from the period showing another of the team bikes that uses the same decals but in different places – so it seems they placed them according to what was available rather than in consistent locations. This makes sense given their criteria was to show the sponsor (Peugeot) logos and those of his father's bicycle shop which ran the team at the time (Jacques Suire).
Anyway, here's the pic of Jacques at qualification for a national kilometer sprint race back in the day, which he won:
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Hello folks. The frame is now unboxed and dusted down; I’ve attached a pic. I’d forgotten how nice that blue looked – faithful to the original shade but with a very subtle metallic effect. Hard to show in the photos.
You’ll also see the collection of decals. I plan to cut the ‘J’ and ‘S’ initials for the seat tube with the Olympic stripes above and below, plus put the Peugeot on one side of the top tube as per the original as shown way back at the top of this thread.
As we don’t have ‘Jacques Suire’ decals that read left to right (you may remember the man himself kindly sent me some NOS decals left over from his father’s business back when this bike was first built and I’m keen to use these) I am considering placing one centrally on the down tube as per the second picture. The rest of the stickers will find their natural homes.
I’m very lucky after all these years to have reconnected with Mr Suire over email who has kindly agreed to consult with the rebuild so that it is reimagined as close to period spec as possible.
Onwards! More updates soon.
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Has it really been a decade since I started this thread? I'll spare the details, but my bicycle collection went into storage for a few years and a recent relocation from London to Bath has given me the opportunity to unpack.
That means this build is back ON.
I'm reviewing the posts here and the email thread between myself and Jacques about the spec of the bike from its French sprint competition days in the late ’70s, plus dusting off the haul of parts I'd collected before life took over. I've also reached out to Jacques to see if his email address is still active, in the hope I can share the renewed progress with him.
Right, to work. Stand by for pics.
Bath-based former Londoner. Serial restorer of vintage (mostly fixed/singlespeed) bicycles and the odd classic car. Works in digital, plays with a bicycle thing on Twitter when there's time.