Well,
Interesting. A very thought-provoking post. Let's see....
Baby-blue Jeunets and Franche-Comptes, white Roger Rivieres, red LeJeunes, pink Merciers, blue Follis tandems, and orange Stellas popped into my head when I read your post. The only ones I actually have are a red 531 LJ Championnat du Monde, and an orange Columbus SL Stella like the one on eBay today, except mine doesn't have the Campy vertical dropouts (way cool...).
One of the earliest "wow-inducing" bikes I ever saw as a wide-eyed college student was a black full-Campagnolo Stella with gold detailing and gold tubular rims back in 1974 or '75 at the "69-Mile Bike Race" at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Those were the days......
Oh, sorry, I drifted off there for a moment.
Others?
Cheers,
Gregoire Parker
A2 MI USA
"Liberte, egalite, fraternite"
> From: John Price <jprice@2-10.com>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:59:04 -0600
> Subject: [CR]French bikes not commonly found...
>
> A short while ago a Yvars came up on EBay. This was one French bike I'd
> never heard of before. This also got me thinking - what other French bikes
> are out there that we don't see or mention too often ? What's out there
> beside the Peugeots, Gitanes, Motobecanes, Alex Singers, Rene Herses ? And
> like the Yvars where do they fit in the scheme of things ? (my impression
> was that the Yvars was not a special bike - interesting, but not that
> special - apologies to any Yvars owners if I'm wrong in my impression).
>
> John Price
>
> Denver CO