Joined
·
10,942 Posts
and given how the frame is from the 1984 to 1993 period (the existence of the brand), its certainly vintage qualified.
Hutsebaut is a quebec, canada brand, founded by Pierre Hutsebaut after he retired from racing (he immigrated to canada from france in the 1960s, raced for the olympic team in montreal '76, and raced pro up till 1983). After the bike brand ended he took a job at the canadian cycling association until be forced out for "political" reasons and is now working for the UCI as the technical director to the TdF. His geometry ideas were, for the period, rather innovative. This thing has a 52cm C-T seattube, and a 58cm effective horizontal TT with a slope to the toptube makes this thing essentially a compact geometry bike, at least a decade before any other brand started offering compact road bikes.
Anyways I picked this frame up NOS out of a local shop I frequent intending to give it to a friend when she expressed a desire for a skinny tire bike to go fast on. Then once I got the wheels onto it is when I discovered the high standover and weird geometry and out went that idea as this thing is my sized (I'm 6'6") not her sized (she's 5'7"). So it took me awhile longer to finish it, but I finally got around to ordering some R500 STI 8x3 shifters last week, and this is how she ended up. Only adjustments to setup I've made since the pics have been to add an inline-barrel adjuster to the front shifter housing (so I could adjust out some front derailleur cage rub of chain when in the smallest cog) and I'm going to switch to a different straddle cable/yoke in the back so I can have a bit more wheel locking ability with the road levers (the tektro cross lever displaces enough cable to lock the back wheel fine) with a steeper cable angle.
As pictured, she came out at 25.9 Ibs, but that's likely to change as soon as I get a non-suspension seatpost on it, which will be as soon as I order something in 26.6.
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
Hutsebaut is a quebec, canada brand, founded by Pierre Hutsebaut after he retired from racing (he immigrated to canada from france in the 1960s, raced for the olympic team in montreal '76, and raced pro up till 1983). After the bike brand ended he took a job at the canadian cycling association until be forced out for "political" reasons and is now working for the UCI as the technical director to the TdF. His geometry ideas were, for the period, rather innovative. This thing has a 52cm C-T seattube, and a 58cm effective horizontal TT with a slope to the toptube makes this thing essentially a compact geometry bike, at least a decade before any other brand started offering compact road bikes.
Anyways I picked this frame up NOS out of a local shop I frequent intending to give it to a friend when she expressed a desire for a skinny tire bike to go fast on. Then once I got the wheels onto it is when I discovered the high standover and weird geometry and out went that idea as this thing is my sized (I'm 6'6") not her sized (she's 5'7"). So it took me awhile longer to finish it, but I finally got around to ordering some R500 STI 8x3 shifters last week, and this is how she ended up. Only adjustments to setup I've made since the pics have been to add an inline-barrel adjuster to the front shifter housing (so I could adjust out some front derailleur cage rub of chain when in the smallest cog) and I'm going to switch to a different straddle cable/yoke in the back so I can have a bit more wheel locking ability with the road levers (the tektro cross lever displaces enough cable to lock the back wheel fine) with a steeper cable angle.
As pictured, she came out at 25.9 Ibs, but that's likely to change as soon as I get a non-suspension seatpost on it, which will be as soon as I order something in 26.6.
