Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

That was my miserable attempt at wordplay

Sad to say your English is better than mine , my first language hmm must try harder

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Royal baby

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Peugeot 1939 before and after.​

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Porteur working

 

[torqueless]

Sad to say your English is better than mine , my first language hmm must try harder

Yeah, and you could start with your title. If you're going to abuse apostrophes you could at least do it consistently!

Member bduc61 has at least three great threads in "Reader's(sic)Road Bikes" back-pages:
1. 1938 Narcisse
2. Mystery 1950 French Randonneuse
3. 1977 753 Rene Herse

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Yeah, and you could start with your title. If you're going to abuse apostrophes you could at least do it consistently

Story of my life. I will see if I can find them and link to them.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Beautiful machines.

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/another-french-classic-1938-narcisse.339141/
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/mystery-bike-1950-french-randonneuse-650b.355445/
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/a-french-classic-1977-rh-753-christmas-pics-p5.311223/

 

[Woz]

Porteur working

That's great. @Mickeyspinn - French bike classification warning time. Understood that these bikes can be known as:

- vélo de boucher = butchers bike
- vélo de livreur = courier / delivery bike
- bi-porteur = two wheeled cargo bike (ie. to carry (verb porter) a load)

A three wheeled cargo bike is a tri-porteur, not really native to France, an old name French name is "vélo brouette" which literarily means "wheelbarrow bike".

Would love something like this - I can't think of anything better to carry a four course picnic with a suitable bottle of plonk per course.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Need two, one for our booze and one for food.

 

[Woz]