[CR]Fwd: Carre-built HELYETT Piste bike

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From: "Norris Lockley" <norris.lockley@talktalk.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 01:44:42 +0100
Subject: [CR]Fwd: Carre-built HELYETT Piste bike

Sorry about the mess on the first effort..don't understand what happened there..and am sure my typing and spelling are not that bad!

Thanks Ken for tipping me off.

Norris Lockley


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From: Norris Lockley

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Sent: Sun May 27 1:15

Subject: Fwd: Carre-built HELYETT Piste bike

Having ben a long way away from a computer for eight weeks I have not be en able to keep up with the topics on the List. but having just manag ed to read those for the last 30 days I can see what I have been missing.

Of particular interest to me are the two contris sent in by Alex March a

The bike, like many track machines is very elegant, even if this one app

Clearly it is one of Bernard Carre's frames, as the nameplate/top-eyes i

http://www.ebykr.com site - but I ha

Alex's Helyett certainly has more of the frame-builder's art about

The track drop-outs really are brazed well into the chainstays and

As to whether the frame was built for Anquetil is another puzzler. Clear

I would guess that Carre was contracted to build many of the team frames

Alex asked about other track riders in the Helyett team. Well.... there

In 1967 Anquetil again set a new World \hour Record that was not ratifie

Last Sunday I had an opportunity to ride a "social" "Sportif" event in t

Norris Lockley....tired at just the thought of sitting on Brian's back w

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