Originally Posted by
bikemig
Right, that's why I liked the pink Mercier. I wasn't sure of the years so this is very helpful. It is such a cool color because of its racing heritage.
I can't recall seeing a pro team Mercier that wasn't some shade of pink. The later Miko-Mercier team bicycles were still pink, as were the circa 1983 Coop-Mercier team bicycles, which I believe was last hurrah for Mercier in the pro peloton.
I had a friend with a circa 1975 Mercier professional model with the Campagnolo (Nuovo) Record group. it was quite nice but the metric Reynolds 531 was a bit whippy under his 6' 2", 200 lb body. So, within a year he replaced it with an early Marinoni. He never was entirely happy until he got a Cannondale in the mid-1980s.