French Racing Bicycles

[Canuk]

Routens branded Clerc c.1985

 

[Canuk]

Note the impossibly small brake cable entry through the top tube, no idea how this would have worked unless he was using plastic coated inners.

 

[Canuk]

Decided to pull the trigger on this Bonnet, soudo braze aluminium fast tourer Bi-Tube. Picking it up at the weekend, all internal cabling, dynamo lever on seat tube. It's a lot of dough, but they don't come along very often.

 

[Canuk]

Alan Michel, another soudo braze aluminium race frame

 

[Canuk]

Alain Michel (Parisian frame builder, one of the more accomplished students of Bernard Carré)

Size 54
Columbus SLX tube
Superb finish
Sold with fork (Columbus), headset, and bottom bracket (French thread)
Frame weight: 1840 g

 

[Canuk]

Raymond Clerc c.1986

 

[Canuk]

4th generation frame with 650 wheels and a more raked fork crown.

C Record 2nd edition group

Shamal wheels

Note the revised grub screw seat post fixing, wholeheartedly copied by Vitus.

 

[Canuk]

Raymond Clerc 1988

 

[Canuk]

4th and final generation frame, (straight fork), ice green enameled, internal cabling. It bears all the hallmarks which would perhaps be the penultimate iteration of the classic Clerc design. Although the Wolhauser connection was long terminated, old stock Wolhausers were still for sale much to the chagrin of Mr. Clerc.

This one a mix of Record/Chorus weighing in at a very respectable 7.7kg

 

[Canuk]

Hate are a few examples of my absolute favourite French aluminium constructeur: Jacques Busset.