Think Pink.
 

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I am tickled pink! Never let it be said that this isn't the best community on the internet. Today's mail brought me a very nice surprise - a bright pink B. Carré t-shirt to complement my pink B. Carré bike. Fellow C&V enthusiast and Right Coast Missourian [MENTION=43980]CV-6[/MENTION] has hooked me up in style!

Lynn, a great big thank you for the shirt. I totally owe you!

Awesome!!!

Totally Cool!

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What a great bike!

If that frame were Lynn's size he'd be apoplectic.

Thank heavens it's my size. :D

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If I'm not mistaken, I think Lynn was who originally outed this frame listed on eBay France to the CR group. I followed up on it and immediately pounced - really glad I did too. Although it was totally an impulse purchase, it's turned out to be one of my favorite riders.

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AND, you have shared it with the forum so we call get to enjoy it! :love:

Have you/Lynn/CR list experts deduced a birthday?

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The bike is magneta, not pink.

Not with any degree of authority. Rear spacing is for five gears; the top tube lacks cable guides (it requires banded guides); the fork doesn't have a lot of the sort of "swoop" you tend to notice in earlier French bikes, and the geometry isn't as relaxed as, say, an early 70's PX-10. All of this is to say that my best guess is mid-70's. But I can be convinced otherwise!

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IIRC back at intake the cantis gave rise to speculation that it might be intended for psycho-X. is shell a normal road height or is it higher than typical road? have you come to any conclusions regarding the idea?

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Why the 36 holes in front and only 32 in the back?

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Ha! More precisely, comparing color chips from my Pantone book to the actual frame indicate the frame is somewhere between Rhodamine Red and Pantone Pink. :)
[MENTION=364968]trailangel[/MENTION], those are wheels I had on hand. Quite frankly I never even noticed the difference in spoke count until now. I'm building new wheels over the winter for this bike though.
[MENTION=333224]juvela[/MENTION], I still have a feeling this was a cross bike. The BB is slightly higher than what I'd anticipate on a road bike of 70's era (though not by much.) Conclusions? Nothing definitive, really. What I do know is that it rides very nicely and that I love the color and patina.

LOL. Saw the thread title and knew you had gotten the shirt. My black shirt looks good, too. A plug for Chuck at VeloRetro is due.

Yeah, I'm totally digging it. Just wish it wasn't 34 degrees outside so I could wear it... I wound up riding the Carre this afternoon and wearing my Paramount long sleeve wool jersey!

Thanks so much for the shirt, and definitely a big plug for Chuck as well - the graphic looks very sharp on there.

If you're a guy you have to call it magneta :D That's a sweet bike.

Pink with a front wheel stay. I like it!

I want to find a pink frame.

One thing I should mention is that Mark did the Illustrator file work for the logos. (There is a Carré head badge on the front) He then gave me the file to do with as I pleased. So it was only fair to see that he got a shirt out of the deal.