I am a serial collector, never with more than a couple of bikes.
Current rides: 1. OT custom road bike 2. KOF '97 lugged steel Marinoni frame with OT parts 3. '69 Gitane Tour de France 4. Frame & fork only, no longer ridden, '82 custom David Brink, which for years was the best bike I had ever ridden.
I love the older French bikes. Over the years I have had another Gitane TDS, a '71 PX-10, a '73 Motobecane Grand Jubile, an '82 Moto Champion Team and several other lower models. Also, Frejus, Holdsworth, Ron Cooper, a different Marinoni, a Columbus tubed Univega Super Special, Cilo, Knight of Wolverhampton, Gios.
Earle Young
Madison, Wisconsin