Originally Posted by
63rickert
I once walked one of these Gitanes into framebuilder Ron Boi's shop. At twenty feet, while talking on the phone and with tools in his hands, with as yet no view of the seatstay caps, the first words out of his mouth were "that's not a Gitane". He had never even heard of BC, knew instantly what he was looking at. Look at the work. Look at the frame. That is not a Taylor overlapping cap or a Herse overlapping cap or any overlapping cap but a Carré cap. Look at the frame.
I did. And I considered carefully what I wrote. I did not say it is not a BC. It is not necessarily a BC. The only way you could say it is definitively a BC is if it were stamped as such or you knew the frame from its inception. I own numerous Lejeunes and even with the known history of BC building for Lejeune, I always preface with likely or probably Carré. To my knowledge there is no known history of Carré building for Gitane save what I related in my original post. So I could say it is possibly Carré for accuracy.