All:
I had the good fortune to visit the Singer shop in Levallois in October and I THINK (I was in awe and distracted from some of the individual details) I saw a threadless stem or 2 on some of the bikes in the showroom.
I was also quite surprised to see bicycles equipped with current Shimano drivetrains and Cyclotouriste cranksets!
By the way, the price for a complete Singer rando bike was 4,000 Euro (1 Euro = about 1 buck).
Rick Chasteen, Kansas City
> As for the appearance of threadless stems on French bikes, Jim
Cunningham's
> Alex Singer has what appears to be a threadless stem. It's on the Singer
> page in Classic Rendezvous -
>
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/