French Bike Jumbles - London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

RichC · 6th February 2008

I'm going to the outlaws in South West France for easter and will need to kill a few hours/days at least. Does anyone know of any bike bargain opportunities in France like our bike jumbles over here?

Max · 6th February 2008

You will normally find local brocantes (general boot sales) in many little villages on Sundays but like here they are 90% full of someone else's crap...

Gustav · 6th February 2008

might also want to try some of the local Trocs (second hand store). Managed to pick up a lovely old school Peugeot racing bike for 40-50 Euros (some beautiful parts and Super Vitus tubing).

jonlubi · 16th February 2008

If you happen to come across a decent headset that will fit a 1984 peugeot tourer (1 1/8" forks - not sure about how you measure/size headsets) then I will give you $$$ in exchange!

chris crash · 16th February 2008

head sets are sized according to fork size so you need either a threadless 1/18th (easy to find) or a french threaded 1and 1/8th (get new forks)

hippy · 16th February 2008

"french bike jumbles".. is that just a play on finding parts with the correct threads? :)

jonlubi · 16th February 2008

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chris crash:head sets are sized according to fork size so you need either a threadless 1/18th (easy to find) or a french threaded 1and 1/8th (get new forks)

Getting new forks anyway so that makes things a bit easier now, cheers mr crash.

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6th February 2008	#1
RichC	I'm going to the outlaws in South West France for easter and will need to kill a few hours/days at least. Does anyone know of any bike bargain opportunities in France like our bike jumbles over here?
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6th February 2008	#3
Gustav	might also want to try some of the local Trocs (second hand store). Managed to pick up a lovely old school Peugeot racing bike for 40-50 Euros (some beautiful parts and Super Vitus tubing).
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16th February 2008	#4
jonlubi	If you happen to come across a decent headset that will fit a 1984 peugeot tourer (1 1/8" forks - not sure about how you measure/size headsets) then I will give you $$$ in exchange!
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16th February 2008	#5
chris crash	head sets are sized according to fork size so you need either a threadless 1/18th (easy to find) or a french threaded 1and 1/8th (get new forks)
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16th February 2008	#6
hippy	"french bike jumbles".. is that just a play on finding parts with the correct threads? :)
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