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Two bikes from mrs non-fixie's collection. Both are Bridgestones and offer a traditional riding position while looking, erm, different. Blouson city bike, by Giorgetto Giugiaro: Grandtech GR-27 sports bike, by Ritsuo Nishimura and Nobuaki Shimada:

You're right of course, but my point is that since those lines have to be routed through the top tube anyway, a couple of nicely filed brazed-on guides would not pose an additional problem, but would look much nicer than those zip tie "cradles", especially on a frame where so much attention was...

I know that they often use zip ties these days on production frames, so time can be saved by mounting pre-configured hydraulic brake systems. It looks cheap, but at least it also is cheap. However, that is impossible on this frame, since the cables need to be routed through the frame tubes...

Zip ties? 😲 Why?

I haven't used them yet, but even if I had I doubt I would have been able to give you a useful answer. Most of my bikes are already equipped with nice pedals from the likes of Lyotard, Campagnolo, MKS, Zeus and Miche. They all work well, and I don't think I am going to wear out or break any of...

Nice! Lovely shade of yellow, which works very well on this build. 👍

Exactly. €1,000 if you're patient, €1,500 if you're not and have to pay eBay prices. Getting back on topic: I just bought this for mrs non-fixie. Not in my hands yet, but I believe it to be a mid-seventies Super Evry. Full Reynolds 531. Even with a nice new B17s and a guidon à trois positions...

"Relatively" is the operative word here, of course. And to be clear: I didn't buy it. I am Dutch, after all. ;)

I'll admit to being a bit of a pedal fetishist. I recently acquired these, which I'd been lusting after for quite a while. The Spécialités T.A. ref 4690:

The point I was trying to make (I think :rolleyes: ) is not so much that new bikes are expensive, but that good quality second-hand bikes are (still) relatively cheap. You may have to be quick, though, to get a good deal. In the automotive world people have cottoned on, and nice older cars...

Luckily I prefer old stuff. The price tag on this Alex Singer I spotted in Saumur a few years ago reads €4,400:

Nice build. Very effective. Love those colours. 🥰

The village church of Woubrugge, NL:

My collection was complete ten years ago. I am never going to finish all the remaining projects. I just bought a new bike. 🥳

Nice find! Whatever it turns out to be, the choice of parts is typical of a previous owner who knew what they were doing. I like the Middleburn cranks. Looks like a bit of TLC and some consumables should get you on the road. Enjoy and report back, please! :)

The combination of top tube cable tunnels and under-the-BB-shell shifter cable routing usually points to the early 1980's. @juvela 's right in that the Belgians were the first Europeans to adopt Japanese tubing and parts in the early '70's, but the overall impression I get from the pictures is...

I'm sure I'll be buying a few more bikes, but unless they're Singers or Herses, I'm pretty sure my last bike is already in my possession.

I believe the fork crown is indeed modified. This shape is fairly common on Plume Sport forks. Vagner and Ekla come to mind as possible originators: The bottom: Most are kept in the attic. :)

Don't tell anyone, but I actually have a few more. ;) I don't have pictures of all of them, I'm afraid. Sorry about that. 😟 This is an early eighties "Strada" which I've ridden quite a bit a few years ago. Built by Frank Groot, I believe. Pictured here on a rather famous historical site in...

While I'm at it, here's another acquisition that's made it to regular rider status. And it's also a bycatch, found in a cellar where the bike was stored I had bought online and came to pick up. For an extra €5 I became the owner of what turned out to be a Miki-built Union Sapporo frame. It is...