Re: [CR] Meral Randonneur on States Ebay

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Columbus)

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:47:53 +0000
From: "Simon Pulman-Jones" <simonpj@mac.com>
To: Norris Lockley <nlockley73@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <29cfc1e00911231735k625e777dib2cf0fab7f307d77@mail.gmail.com>
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Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Meral Randonneur on States Ebay


This bike looks quite like my Elvish:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/simonpj/Elvish_randonneur_early_80s/ElvishRando858.jpg.html

Wyndham Pulman-Jones Girton, Cambridgeshire, UK.

On Tuesday, November 24, 2009, at 01:35AM, "Norris Lockley" <nlockley73@googlemail.com> wrote:
>There is a very attractive MERAL Randonneur bike on USA Ebay *Item No
>280426213647, but the seller *is* based in France.*
>**
>The bike is equipped with French components as befits such a gallic machine.
>Size is 54 cms...price currently 316 dollars with about three days for the
>auction to run.
>
>MERAL was a medium sized company based in the Loire valley. It's range of
>cycles and frames was impressive to say that they were made in short series,
>although a custom build was available.
>
>Obviously not of the same high standard as a Singer or Herse, these bikes
>look typically French..have all the braze-ons for F and R racks etc and ride
>well

>

>

>Norris Lockley

>

>Settle-sur-Loire