Vintage noname 70s french roadie restomod for my GF
Here is a cute little roadie I built up for my partner who was getting jealous of me and all her friends living our best life riding from bakery to bakery every weekend. It was a case of scrolling through listings and her saying "wait a minute, that colour's lovely" and what do you know, it wasn't the only lovely thing about this bike.
For starters It's fairly light and well made but I've no clue what tubing it's made of (that's not exactly true, there's a Columbus cromor sticker on the left fork leg. So I've exactly one clue).
Next, it is her size and someone had already done a decent job of cold setting it
And then, of course, the paint is quite lovely - but above all, it's got a little tire scraper chain-thing that I can't get enough of.
I pretty much stripped it of all the "original" components save the bb, headset, and calipers, and slapped a pair of cxp30 rims on duraace hubs on it, a random compact double that fit the original (french) bb and a pair of sora 2*9 levers operating a deore rear and random front mech. Specialized makes a nice ladies saddle also
Best of most worlds, and of course more to the point she loves it.