Anybody know about 70's French Rotary bikes

[tommaguzzi]

I rescued one from a skip. It is a road bike the frame is made by Rotary and says made in France.
The seat tube is also an odd size.
The 5 gear block on the rear wheel did not fit the normal removal tool I have used before.
Huret deraileur, custom 52/42 chainrings.
It must be a 70's bike because it has the extra suicide brake levers fitted.

I have given it some TLC but had to replace both wheels with wiemanns. I use it on high days and holidays it is still very nice to ride. I,m hoping to be at the peak district Eroica this year but I can find nothing about the Rotary bicycle company on the web.
Any information would be most welcome. Thanks.

 

[midlife]

Pictures would be nice I'm a child of the 1970's

Shaun

 

[biggs682]

@tommaguzzi i seem to remember them being re badged Peugeot's but nowt wrong with that

 

[Alex H]

Had a search on French Google, but Rotary clubs kept getting in the way

Found this one for sale on Leboncoin - only 50€

Link HERE if you want to buy it.

 

[tommaguzzi]

Thanks but I don't want to buy another, I just wanted to find out a little bit of info about the company that made them

 

[tommaguzzi]

i seem to remember them being re badged Peugeot's but nowt wrong with that

Thanks for that. Any info at all is more than I had before.

 

[tommaguzzi]

Pictures would be nice I'm a child of the 1970's

there you go

 

[benbrangwyn]

This search gets you a lot: https://www.google.co.uk/search?num...0i13i30k1j0i13i5i30k1j0i8i13i30k1.DbsvTkTtlmw

I'm interested because I recently rescued one and there's something oddly appealing about it.

 

[Cycleops]

Looks rather nice. Can't see the derailleur properly but you might be able to date the bike better using this rather interesting site: http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Home.html

 

[tommaguzzi]

https://www.cyclechat.net/attachments/tmp_12306-img_1819-1308974043-jpg.343516/

When this happened last year i had to replace the Huret derailer with a new old stock one i found on eBay. When i checked the serial number of the damaged original it showed it to be manufactured in 1981.