Jerry,
to coin a Geico term, we have a lot of junior members on CR and also "Cave Men" who have not ridden all those marquees that you apparently have in your stable. And actually, I have never ridden an italian bike, unless of course you consider my ALAN to be a typical italian bike, and I never ridden a french bike, except perhaps for a peugeot mixte that belonged to a neighbor's mom and that I tried for a few minutes when I was 15 and I thought it had a spectacular ride.
So to me, you're saying the bike feels more like a carbon-steel Peugeot Mixte with Simplex Delrin gears, than it feels like my Super-Record ALAN ?? Is that the message you are trying to get across??
I honestly don't know what it means to say, "The bike feels more Italian the French" ... Could you please elaborate? Thanx.
- Don "Cave Man" Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA