From: nelsmiller@msn.comTo: classicrendezvous@bikelist.orgSubject: "French bikes" AND "French Racer" on ebayDate: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 00:56:22 -0800
Group -- Regarding the supplier of all bikes dear and wonderful to us...
if anybody can get a name and address and perhaps a phone number for me,
I have a couple days to kill in Paris later this week (pity!) and would be
happy to pay him a visit.. Should be interesting to view this vast collect
ion, should it exist! I agree that the "French Racer" on ebay smacks of
being a British bike, with some French components .. I believe that the
"path racer" would normally have had a drilled fork, but the clamp-on-th
e-fork-blades brake could have been original.. I have a Maclean that came
originally with Resillion clamp-ons and was not drilled front or rear. Th
e fancy lugs also look British to me -- quite similar to my son-in-law's fr
eddie grubb. NORRIS ??? Nelson Miller // Seattle, WA // USA