Hi Norris, Thank you! A very beautiful old Mercier bike. It looks great with its warts and patina! I'll Google Mercier Prestige to see what comes up. All the best, Peter Rogers
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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From: "Norris Lockley" <nlockley73@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 4:32 PM
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] More on MERCIER..Prestige..and Shades of Poulidor
> On sifting through some back numbers of Le Cycle - the French semi-trade
> semi-sport magazine, I chanced to find an announcment in the March 1977
> edition,f rom MERCIER, about the firm's intention to launch its Prestige
> range.
>
> The article states that all frames made under this banner will be
> custom-made, entirely by hand, to individual order with no more than 200
> being produced each month. Apparently each frame was presented in its own
> gift case..and each carried a special number..but the article did not say
> whereabouts on the frame. Frames were made either of Reynolds 531DB or of
> 753.
>
> To contrast with these frames I have posted on my Flickr site :-
> http://www.flickr.com/
> Mercier bike, my1964 Grand Prix des Nations one, warts and patina and
> all..a
> thing of rare cyclamen beauty.
>
> Norris Lockley
>
> Settle UK