I am pretty sure that it a production bike. Bikes like that abound in france. Here are a few similar ones that I saw locked on the streets in paris:
http://tsaleh.blogspot.com/2008/07/all-france-photos.html http://tsaleh.blogspot.com/2008/08/moscaline-legui-photo-call.html If you look at my post here, you will see that the headlight thingy was common on even seventies bikes: http://veloquent.blogspot.com/2008/07/its-little-things.html Also nice poster from vogesia: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DEm5tlqxC3w/R92HvKBIVpI/AAAAAAAAAqs/TBvzPQb2ncg/s320/Vogesia.jpg With bikes like this on the street, I am assuming there are a few nicer older production bikes floating around like the one on ebay. I could be wrong though... Tarik On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:51 PM, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > Thanks for the link. > > It is a fascinating bike. I like the built in light and rear derailer > guard. Really interesting the way the front derailer shift lever is > incorporated around the chain guard. > > Rene Herse and Alex Singer desevedly get a lot of attention for their > trail blazing work. But there were a lot of other French > constructuers with interesting ideas. This appears to be one of them. > > On Feb 25, 4:37 pm, Eric Norris <campyonly...@me.com> wrote: >> Now up on eBay: >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/Vogesia-french-randonneur-from-the-50th-Simplex-6... >> >> --Eric >> campyonly...@me.comwww.campyonly.comwww.wheelsnorth.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Tarik Saleh tas at tariksaleh dot com in los alamos, po box 208, 87544 http://tariksaleh.com all sorts of bikes blog: http://tsaleh.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
