Champion Du Monde Urban Cruiser - By Klaassen

Early seventies. A customer wanted us to create a sportive urban cruiser in our signature style.

We searched for the right donor. We found this beauty in a nice dark red. With nice white detailed lugs. 

Because of the nice and high quality and beautiful oldskool parts we tried to keep it very original, we combined it with newskool parts that fitted the theme well. A true 'oldskool vs. newskool, best of both worlds' result.

After a thorough cleaning, we serviced all rotating parts, replaced the derailleur, the derailleur wheels, fitted new great suiting tan sidewall tires. Great fitting Italian fenders for that tight look, around the beautiful Panaracer Pasela Clinchers. We had to do some oldskool metal work there for a good fit.

We found a great looking new Sturmey Archer 5 speed handlebar shifter. We found 'the right' new moon bar, fitted very nice new reversed Dia Compe brakes. We checked and serviced/tuned the wheel spokes and bearings. Installed a cable clamp for the rear derailleur. Changed the inner and outer cables. Overhauled the bracket cable guide wheel. We converted the gearing to a 1x5, so we skipped the front derailleur, shifter and cable for a clean look and to save some weight. We finished it off with the famous Klaassen signature of matching tire sidewall color and handlebar tape and (Brooks) saddle and of course it got the laser cut leather signature 'ByKlaassen' (headtube).