Lejeune - Reynolds/Campagnolo

[Mr Weirdo]

Hello. My first french frame which I picked up today. Apologies about some of the pics as I suffer from the tremors esp when taking photos. I was impressed by the lugs and hopefully as the decals say it is 531sl. No serial frame number. Any comments welcome

 

[Mr Weirdo]

Thank you CC, not much love for french bicycles?

 

[Nob]

What’s the red frame in bubble wrap

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Plenty of love for French bikes here

Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

It was suggested I start a thread about randonneurs and porteurs. Any pictures or information, feel free to post them here. Here's a few to start. https://forum.tontonvelo.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=24199&sid=3730e0d6d45d7bf9a73f1e512e96c38f...

www.retrobike.co.uk

 

[hamster]

Oooh, that looks rather nice. Really good patina - a quick clean and polish and it will look lovely.

 

[Mr Weirdo]

What’s the red frame in bubble wrap

Hello. It's a Freccia Racing Concorde Frame which has featured in a couple of older posts when it was built up. It's Columbus EL & EL OS. A really nice frame. Thankyou

 

[Mr Weirdo]

Oooh, that looks rather nice. Really good patina - a quick clean and polish and it will look lovely.

Thanks Hamster. I thought it would be a good time for a french frame with all it's tube size oddities. It was £140 with a Velo Orange and VO headset. I thought it was an okay price. Thank you.

 

[Mr Weirdo]

Lol...keep meaning to look at this group. Thank you

Plenty of love for French bikes here

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/vintage-french-randonneuers-and-porteurs.449944/[

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[hamster]

I think that's more than Okay!
Admittedly if it was a Mercian it would be twice as much, but I bet nobody could tell the difference riding in the dark!

I love my old Witcomb - again not quite fashionable or well-known enough.

 

[Mr Weirdo]

I've seen a Witcomb on FB Marketplace as a single freewheel set up recently. It is silver, 531 Butted Frame Tubes(?) and located in Dartford Kent. I think they wanted £100. I have no idea of the model but I thought it looked very nice and an okay price. I nearly bought it until I saw the Lejeune and realised it was 531SL. All the best.