the French moped

[Tizzle]

Let me introduce myself. I'm Teun from Holland.

This is my first real attempt to build a cruiser, it has a kinda french moped thing to it.

french fifties frame
old peugeot moped rear rack
weird 26 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/2 tyre and rim with twisted spoke rear wheel
torpede rear hub
moped headlight
fifties french taillight
brooks saddle
selfmade handlebars
lenghtened rear fender
and ofcourse a ding dong ringer

some more pics

 

[Riverbend Bicycles]

Looks classy, nice job on the fender and bars.

 

[Markm]

cool!!!

 

[Japsel]

very nice, I'm digging the shape of the bars.

groeten uit Rotterdam!

 

[dutchunirider]

very nice bicycles are coming out of the netherlands now

groeten uit apeldoorn :wink:

 

[bombshelterbikes]

Very sweet lines.....is that rear bumper stock or custom? Thanks!

 

[user 135]

Nice update. I like the chainguard and handlebars-looks like a deer/stag antlers.

 

[Tizzle]

Thanks for all the great feedback!

The rear bumper is stock, these are very common on dutch touring bikes. I just mounted it a little bit down the fender.

 

[sensor]

turned out nice :mrgreen:

 

[johnpsmith]

Is this a stock frame or did you modify it. I noticed the frame is different on each side on the rear. On the left it goes to the rear dropout and the right goes above the chainguard. I like the european style of it. very nice 8)

 

[Tizzle]

It's a stock french Peugeot fifties frame. But I changed the right upper chainstay. In this way both the chain and the chainguard have more room.

I recently discovered something about the headlight. It's a daimon made in czech, so i thought nothing special... but it turned out to be a rare headlight used on old british bicycles 8)