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Man's bicycle
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Réf.: V46
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I found it in august 2000 at Buzançais, Indre, France.
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The painted head badge represents a squirrel holding a bicycle's wheel and the inscription "Roold fabrication
supérieure".
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enlarge]
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This bicycle has:
A rear wheel with gearwheel on each side, system used in the 1920's.
A derailleur from the end of the 1930's.
Aluminum mudguard (end of the 1930's also).
An electric and plastic lighting of the 1970's, inevitably added
later.
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ROOLD
badge painted on the frame.
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Details and pieces:
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56 cm frame, gray color.
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Extracted from the Comptoirs
Cyclistes 1939-1940 catalogue for an
equivalent model, Super Champion Tour de France 1937:
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SIMPLEX 3 gearwheels rear derailleur.
Super Champion "à fourchette".
The rear wheel combines this derailleur which allows 3 gears, and
an additional gear by reversal of the wheel. Indeed this wheel has 3 gearwheels on the right and 1 on the left.
Detail of the chain's tensioner and the splendid crankset decorated with
three squirrels pressed each one on a wheel (symbol of mark ROOLD).
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chrome steel flat handlebar with stem, white rubber levers.
Front and rear brakes from the mark GLORIA Tour de France with pressure on the side of the rim.
700B wheels, profile "Chapeau de Gendarme" profile rims.
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Front and rear aluminium mudguards from mark ROOLD.
Electric lighting from the 1970's.
Steel rear rack.
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About the ROOLD mark :
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