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restoration peugeot ruche

Nuno came to us with a Peugeot bicycle in very bad condition, which belonged to his grandfather. The truth is that we tried to refuse the restoration, because we thought it was in very bad condition, but after some insistence we accepted the challenge to resurrect this beauty.

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bicicleta president

Catarina bought a second-hand President’s bicycle with the intention of recovering it to be able to ride and commute by bicycle. At the end of the year she decided to proceed with its restoration, having very well defined which features

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lx20 - peugeot pl40

Rui and Diana returned :). After the bicycle “Le Parisien” restoration (link), they enjoyed the process so much that they came back to restore this lovely Peugeot that belonged to an uncle. And again, the major requirement was to keep the appearance of this classic as original as possible. And the great difficulty was finding

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lx18 - le parisien

Rui and Diana approached us with a classic french bike from her family,  to be restored and adapted for daily use. It was very important for the young couple to keep the look as original as possible, this meaning that the brand stickers 

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lx17 - peugeot da 22

As in almost all 2-wheels lover’s homes, also in our house we have little space available for so many bicycles. So, when this small demountable (non-folding) Peugeot came along, we figured it was a great opportunity to make it 

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lx14 - steel bike yé-yé esmaltina

This 1977 Yé-Yé Esmalina Steel Bike came to us to be completely restored after a few messages exchanged with Mark – a Portuguese-descendant American who discovered the bicycle of his late grandfather, last year, on a trip to his home land (at Batalha – Portugal).

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lx10 - pax bakery

We were approached by a national Bakery to give a new life to a bicycle in order to be exhibited in their museum, recreating the door to door distribution of bread in the old days. A key aspect was that it should included the traditional side rear wicker baskets.

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