Identify this bike- fleur de lis on fork crown?
10-14-22, 06:01 PM
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Any of them on campus? Check with the university and ask what they do when they do a bike rack purge. Many universities require students to register their bikes so when the abandoned bikes pile up and they cut the locks, they know who to contact. Some get abandoned.
Ask the city too. It's sometimes offloaded to a towing company, but there's often a public works department that sorts it out and usually ends up scrapping whatever they wind up with. Saved some seized shared bikes that way.
-Kurt
Ask the city too. It's sometimes offloaded to a towing company, but there's often a public works department that sorts it out and usually ends up scrapping whatever they wind up with. Saved some seized shared bikes that way.
-Kurt
10-14-22, 06:09 PM
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In reading through this post, I was amazed at the number of different frames that have a fleur-de-lis (or fleur-de-lys) on them. This kind of turned into a show me your fleur-de-lis thread. I have a 1978 Marinoni which has them, and it has always made sense since he is making his frames in Quebec and it is part of the Quebec flag. A quick check with Wikipedia helps to explain some of the different designs and the two spellings. It turns out the details in the design vary slightly between different countries as do the the source of the frames mentioned in the thread.
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10-14-22, 06:15 PM
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Here is the frame. The fleur de lis is not the same, as these photos will attest. My memory was faulty evidently!
Funny story to go along with these pics. My ex-BIL brought the frame over from France, and it was in pretty good condition. He ended up getting a Gios, and then sold the frame to my buddy (that still has it, hence the pics). So it went from a very nice frameset to this in 15(?) years or so. I can put a name and a face to this bikes slow destruction! Everything he owns looks this way.
Local builder, Chanteloupe-en-Brie for a local race team (ex BIL racer). No identifying marks.
That version of fleur-de-lis panto is the Bernard Carre/Didier Louis one:
Can't tell from the pics but the frame could be theirs as well (the stays to dropouts transition pics would help). With the fastback stays this could have been done either under Carre or after Didier Louis took over Carre's shop in Montreuil. You will find both Carre and Didier Louis badged frames with that fork, but also many, many other brands for whom they made frames. Like this Jo Lamant (and ex-racer who later opened his own shop):
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10-14-22, 06:26 PM
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That version of fleur-de-lis panto is the Bernard Carre/Didier Louis one:
Can't tell from the pics but the frame could be theirs as well (the stays to dropouts transition pics would help). With the fastback stays this could have been done either under Carre or after Didier Louis took over Carre's shop in Montreuil. You will find both Carre and Didier Louis badged frames with that fork, but also many, many other brands for whom they made frames. Like this Jo Lamant (and ex-racer who later opened his own shop):
Can't tell from the pics but the frame could be theirs as well (the stays to dropouts transition pics would help). With the fastback stays this could have been done either under Carre or after Didier Louis took over Carre's shop in Montreuil. You will find both Carre and Didier Louis badged frames with that fork, but also many, many other brands for whom they made frames. Like this Jo Lamant (and ex-racer who later opened his own shop):
ETA- Montreuil is a stone's throw from Chanteloup. (30km) Just checked a map!
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10-14-22, 06:46 PM
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Sorry about the derail Vegasbike, but the C+V section is solving all kinds of mysteries in this thread. It started with a Fleur de Lis...............................
10-14-22, 07:01 PM
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Great thread!
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10-15-22, 04:01 PM
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