Sologne Front Bag

Lovely Mini Rack and Bag - bolts to the Mafacs. An ebay auction called these racks their 'Porteur' model. Interesting - the bag creators thought ahead to install those cool Cell Phone holders on the front! This is going on the Mondia Special, but was tested here on my yellow Motobecane - it works out great. Check the other photos to see the larger size of this rack. Zoom in to see the detail.

Thanks to List Member Amir A for machining up and making available the very nice rack bolts to fit Mafac calipers. (email Amir to see if he's got more available)

FLASH - a fellow CR list member identified this bag:

What a great find ! What you have there is an old bag made by Sologne, the forerunner of the current Gilles Berthoudt company. Gilles bought the company when Sologne was closing down. These old bags are really well made - much nicer than the cheap Lafuma bags that TA marketed along with their small Mafac brake racks.

source for new shockcord 3/32 white

Other Examples of Sologne Bags:

From Peter Weigles Flickr Site:

 From Chris Kulczycki VeloOrange Blog: 

 From Joel Metz Site, and his Jack Taylor