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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alexander_Ny=DFen?= <alexander@nyssen.org>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:34:11 +0200
Subject: [CR] =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E9ral_frame?=

Hallo,

I did long research about the origin of a bike I got from my uncle some 10 years ago but could not find any information on the web. The bike was equipped with French equipment (Sachs-Huret derailleurs, Maillard hubs, and Mavic rims etc) and its frame is made by Méral.

I always wondered who the manufacturer is (i.e. if the company still exists, where it resided, what kind of frames they built, etc). What I found out using your mailing list archive is that it was a French manufacturer that seems to have gone bankrupt and merged into a company named Sedac-Meral that today produces bedframes! I also found out that there was a team called RMO-Méral-Mavic that started at Tour de France in the 1980’s. Does anyone have additional information (or ownes a Méral, too)?

Greetings,

Alexander Nyßen