aka Tom Reingold
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Posts: 40,503
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
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There are too many to list, but my favorite might be the Raleigh International of the 1970's. Lots of Raleighs are nice.
It's true that French bikes can pose problems because of threadings and dimensions. I feel it's a shame the metric system lost in the bike world, but that's what happened.
The most predictably standardized bikes might be the Japanese bikes of the 1980's. They were also very well made.