Repco Deville Resto

 Hi

Last week I rode to my volunteer job at Wecycle with a bike I'd fixed up, and rode home with a different one to fix up. This was a Repco De ville  stepthrough bike which I identified through the 1985 / 1986 Repco Catalogue available here. The bike has some great Suntour components, for example I like the rear derailleur where the holding screw pinches the cable in the guts of the derailleur, and its easy to see how the end stops work. There was a fair bit of cleaning up to do and I added a basket to the finished bike. The rims seemed to be lightly magnetic but look aluminium - I compared the wheel with a decrepit 27" steel wheel from the backyard and the De Ville wheel was lighter. As well there are currently rainbow lorrikeets squawking and eating pears  in my backyard  which is nice. 

The web pages where the catalog came from is "Blogging a Dead Horse" available here and the Stubby Holder sections are highly recommended and hilarious. They show the writer's (an avid BMXer) self commissioned stubby holders, their design inspiration and examples of the holders out and about, and with famous people.