A fellow CR member was curious as to why I'm selling the Gillot. This was my response:
I purchased the bike several months ago from Ken Denny, but in the last few
months I've decided to focus completely on Hetchin's cycles (Vibrant stays
only) from 1930-1970. Something has to give, so there will be many bikes
I'll be selling in the next few months that I'm going to hate letting go of.
As a typical collector, I've been spending more than what has been coming
in, so to afford buying 30s-60s frames and componants I must part with a
major part of the collection it has taken me years to build. Some cycle or
frames I'll be selling are as follows:
1950 Freddy Grubb frameset
1966 all Chrome Schwinn Paramount
1950 Claude Butler all rounder complete
1946 Hobbs Barbicon frameset
1983 Mercian Vincetore w/ Gold Galli
1979 Jim Merz with complete Dura-Ace AX group, almost NOS. Has 1 mile on it.
Mike Kone will verify this.
1958 Hobbs Barbicon frameset
1968 Hetchin's Magnum Bonum complete w/Campy NR
was a one owner bike from the UK. Tjis one may be sold.
1979 Vitus 979 with Campy SR, NOS and complete.
There are too many to list, but this is just a start.
I'm working right now on the purchase of a 1939 Brilliant Curly, fully
restored frameset and another 1936 Hetchins.
Peter Naiman
Boston, MA