Re: [CR]French bikes not commonly found...

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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:12:57 -0700
To: John Price <jprice@2-10.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Brandon Ives" <monkeylad@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]French bikes not commonly found...


At 3:59 PM -0600 7/23/02, John Price wrote:
>A short while ago a Yvars came up on EBay. This was one French bike I'd
>never heard of before. This also got me thinking - what other French bikes
>are out there that we don't see or mention too often ?

Think of it this way, how many good local US or Canadian builders do you know? Now take a country where cycling is a national love and think about how many good local builders they have in France. 99% of the bikes you'll find in the states from France are either mass-produced or very special. Personally I don't know many of the smaller French builders, but I'm sure frankophiles like Sheldon and Jobst do. Just like everywhere in the world that loves cycling you'll never know more than 99% of there bike until you go there and hunt down the builders. I'll be moving to Belgium in a year or two and one of my first projects is to find all the smaller builders I
can.
enjoy,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA