Norris Lockley wrote:
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> I have been lucky in finding three Alcyons, including a 1936 Tour de France team bike that I bought from the rider's family in Provence. It's very original but I'm wondering whether to just keep it as it is faded transfers, scratched paint and all...no chroming except for the very top surface of an ingenious full-sloping integtal fork crown.. or to try to renovate it.
Some things are irreplaceable... "You can not replace originality."
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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