Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

[Woz]

I sat in one of these as a kid. Sat on the rack, so lookdd left the entire way. I wonder if it survived

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Crikey. You could get a family of four in that. Looks great. Guess it was built for winter riding too right? Bet you would be snug in that.

 

[grantoury]

Yes, well done but not over restored. Most parts you see mirror polished were never finished like that originally. I wonder how comfortable shellac tape is to ride on though.

I was gonna say, not overdone

 

[grantoury]

Crikey. You could get a family of four in that. Looks great. Guess it was built for winter riding too right? Bet you would be snug in that.

Yeah, I even have a vague memory of it in winter

 

[Woz]

Yes, well done but not over restored. Most parts you see mirror polished were never finished like that originally. I wonder how comfortable shellac tape is to ride on though.

I think if I was the kid, I wouldn't care less. If I was the rider, I think I wouldn't care less judging by the bar ends.

 

[Woz]

Yeah, I even have a vague memory of it in winter

Bet you looked cute in that with a balaclava and big floppy woolly mittens with a piece of sting attaching them together up your sleeves and around your back. That crisp Dutch wind making your cheeks rosey red. Space for a little blanket in there too

EDIT: Think it's that time I went to the Inn now

 

[grantoury]

Bet you looked cute in that with a balaclava and big floppy woolly mittens with a piece of sting attaching them together up your sleeves and around your back. That crisp Dutch wind making your cheeks rosey red. Space for a little blanket in there too

EDIT: Think it's that time I went to the Inn now

You should be a writer. Didn't miss a thing in that description..

My mother told me she fell off the bicycle once, I had disappeared in this thing, she had to fish me out. No memory of that.

 

[Woz]

Well worth reading. After 40 years, the French bike industry may just bounce back.

https://www.mercier.cc/en/pages/histoire

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Well worth reading. After 40 years, the French bike industry may just bounce back.

https://www.mercier.cc/en/pages/histoire

Nice to read

 

[Woz]

Photo from the Mercier factory is too good - pasting it here.




Man with Beret and smoking a Gauloises to help digest the lunch and wine in the foreground - wooden table and a traditional blacksmiths vice.

That's eight million % French perfection right there. I would trust my life on something down a Col that went through his hands.

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Photo from the Mercier factory is too good - pasting it here.

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Man with Beret and smoking a Gauloises to help digest the lunch and wine in the foreground - wooden table and a traditional blacksmiths vice.

That's eight million % French perfection right there. I would trust my life on something down a Col that went through his hands.

Best bikes built after lunch ?