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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:48:43 -0400
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_=5BCR=5D_M=E9ral_frame?=
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alexander_Ny=DFen?= <alexander@nyssen.org>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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These frames are very related to LeJeune. I have two hanging side by side in my workshop.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, New Jersey USA


----- Original Message -----
From: Alexander Nyßen
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:34 AM
Subject: [CR] Méral 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