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03 Victoria folding bike

June 2014: As I was working with my friend on his Peugeot folding bike, his neighbour gave us this old rusty "thing". Totaly original apart from the saddle, head-and taillamp (missing). As less money, but also as much work as possible. Evertything took apart, cleaned, rust removed, freshly greased, adjusted and polished by hand. Build a Torpedo Duomatic with 36 spokes in (from the Peugeot) Sadly though the frame cracked near the seatpostclamp and at the bottom bracket shell

Frame:
Victoria (38,5 C-T)

Fork/Headset:
Point / 1" steel

Crankset/Bottom Bracket:
170mm / Cottered Thompson

Drivetrain/Cog/Chainring/Chain:
15T / 44T / Sibeck 1/2 1/8"

Saddle/Seatpost:
Wittkopp / 22mm fullsteel

Brakes:
Lepper Synchron

Front Wheel/Hub/Tire:
Al / Renak 56/ 36H / Schwalbe Kojak 35-406

Rear Wheel/Hub/Tire:
Fichtel und Sachs Torpedo Duomatic (R102), 36H / Schwalbe Kojak 35-406

Accessories:
- FER dynamo - FER headlamp - Roscho 904 taillight - Sparta bell - Gloria spokelock

More Info:
Frame: 3946g, fork: ca. 750g (missed to weight it :/ )

Bike History

Click a link below to see past stages of this bike.

  1. My first folding bike!
  2. found her again
  3. fully stripped and added a new fork
  4. Build it up again
  5. how I ride it

Current Stage Info:

near no noise is coming from the bike. The slicks make it very fast!

Added by Klappschredder. Last updated almost 7 years ago.

2 Comments

RideRestRepeat

RideRestRepeat says:

The Look carbon bottle cage moves this into the "serious speed weapon" category :)
Shame the frame broke.

Posted over 8 years ago

Klappschredder

Klappschredder says:

Hahaha yes! That's why it was so fast, because carbon instead of condition! Well the condition was terrible when I got it, putted much efford, beer and blood into it (~20hours I believe).
But it survived my workholiday :) I think I still got the frame in the basement

Posted over 8 years ago

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