Beautiful bike. At the risk of starting another thread like the one starti ng with the eBay Confente, I'll observe that, as with Italian racing bikes, there were probably many French constructeurs who we in America never hear d of who turned out bikes every bit as good as the big names like Herse and Singer. This bike is a wonderful find. Always good to discover unknown o r little known marques.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: Nathan Cozzolino <cozzolino77@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [CR]70's French Constructeur Bike - Flickr Set
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 1:27 PM
> So after talking to Alex March, I realized there seems to be
> little known
> about this Marque "Philippe". He said it looks
> pretty similar to Routens a
> nd was probably made somewhere around that south east
> region of France (if
> I'm not mistaken).
>
> Apparently the builder was making bikes since after the
> second world war un
> til about the 80's. He was the father of the current
> owner of Philippe bike
> s which is still in business, but making more modern bikes
> these days.
>
> It seems to be very well made and rides great. It has a
> 58cm seat tube and
> a 55cm top tube, which makes for a pretty zippy light
> tourer/baguette go-
> getter (note the rear rack).
>
> Here's is a link to the Flickr photoset. The bike has
> not be cleaned up and
> came out of someone's garage after more than a decade
> long rest. It's in p
> retty great shape.
>
> http://flickr.com/
>
> ...anymore info on this bike would be appreciated.
>
> Nathan Cozzolino
> San Francisco, California
>
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