Fairly Mental French and Italian Bikes
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Canuk
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Daniel Hanart, born 1944. An artisan Tig welder from 1959 to 1975, then Daniel opened a cycle shop in Nogent-sur-Oise and finally in Roberval. He made specialist cycle frames from around 1980, including a track frame for "Jeannie Longo" who would become world track champion with this frame.
Yes. The old Caminade and the new Caminade is a sort of similar ethos, but it stops there.
One was inventor and pushing limits of new material doing research into material properties, getting dirty, putting stakes in the ground never done before, and still producing a looker - the other is sadly a Louis Vuitton of the industry and will have to hold your breath long and deep for pushing any limits. It is rooted in the past with little and limited machining in house.
I won't discredit the new Caminade either. They still produce a fine bike and go for it. for it's intended purpose and market.
One was inventor and pushing limits of new material doing research into material properties, getting dirty, putting stakes in the ground never done before, and still producing a looker - the other is sadly a Louis Vuitton of the industry and will have to hold your breath long and deep for pushing any limits. It is rooted in the past with little and limited machining in house.
I won't discredit the new Caminade either. They still produce a fine bike and go for it. for it's intended purpose and market.
Canuk
Senior Retro Guru
Cycles GANOLO is a French company based near Versailles, at St Germain-en-Laye, to the east of Paris. It is owned by the family of former Pro rider Maurice Archambaud. The GANOLO name was conjured up in the late 70s and early 80s in order to market the frames at a time when Italian brands such as COLNAGO, Pinarello, Guerciotti etc were attacking the French market and depriving French builders of sales.
The GANOLO brand was part of a larger wholesale company based in the same premises, called Europe Cycles.
The company also had and still have a large retail shop, CYCLES LAURENT in the centre of Paris, at 9 Boulevard Voltaire from which it sells Casati, Pinarello and a full range of other frames, including their own brand Cycles Laurent. The GANOLO name is no longer used.
No one is seems to know whether the company actually built its own frames, but there are strong reasons and arguments for thinking that Edmond Polchlopek built at least some of the frames.
The GANOLO brand was part of a larger wholesale company based in the same premises, called Europe Cycles.
The company also had and still have a large retail shop, CYCLES LAURENT in the centre of Paris, at 9 Boulevard Voltaire from which it sells Casati, Pinarello and a full range of other frames, including their own brand Cycles Laurent. The GANOLO name is no longer used.
No one is seems to know whether the company actually built its own frames, but there are strong reasons and arguments for thinking that Edmond Polchlopek built at least some of the frames.
