Show Us Your Bikes Starting With M
08-14-19, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by JimR56
Very nice! I would love to know the dates of manufacture on those three, if you know. The down tube logo on the white bike is apparently a transitional design which I've had a hard time trying to date (maybe '73 or '74?). But the examples of that logo which I've seen were on U.S. imports. The "Special Sport" marking is also something I haven't encountered very often in my photo searches.
Your brown one would be around 1976-77, perhaps? The color on the mixte is lovely. We didn't get that color on Merciers over here!
I invite you to join in and help share any knowledge in my Mercier topic, if you're interested: 50 years later, another Mercier
Your brown one would be around 1976-77, perhaps? The color on the mixte is lovely. We didn't get that color on Merciers over here!
I invite you to join in and help share any knowledge in my Mercier topic, if you're interested: 50 years later, another Mercier
It took me quite a while to get the bike where I wanted it to be (see this thread), but it was worth it. Mrs non-fixie probably hadn't had as much male attention in 25 years.
You could well be right on the brown Mercier's birth date. I have it down as "late seventies". It never got its own thread, but it did give me the chiquest garage door pic ever (see this thread).
The "Micro Mercier" is a bit of an oddball. Just bought it because it is so cute, and it was just €25. It does have its own thread here. Maybe a tiny friend will turn up some day ...
08-14-19, 11:51 AM
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08-14-19, 07:20 PM
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Motobecane Grand Touring. Dates from '70-'72. Have 500+ miles on it so far this season.
08-14-19, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by P!N20
The Velobase page says that to compare the Record and the Chorus, one has the clip attached on top and the other on the bottom, and that's true. Another difference is that the body of the Chorus is heavier and thicker than that of the Record Other levels included a Triomphe. I think there was one identified with another lower-level group.
08-14-19, 09:11 PM
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2 M's-Merckx Motorola
Another Motobecane Grand Touring, with a few Campy bits and Mavic crank from the parts bin.
Another Motobecane Grand Touring, with a few Campy bits and Mavic crank from the parts bin.
08-14-19, 09:33 PM
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Metropole
Early 1950s Metropole. An old French company that made bevel gear shaft drive bikes in the 1890s. Seamed to disappear after the 1950s.
08-14-19, 09:49 PM
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Longs for '69 red Mercier
Originally Posted by non-fixie
The "Micro Mercier" is a bit of an oddball. Just bought it because it is so cute, and it was just €25. It does have its own thread here. Maybe a tiny friend will turn up some day ...
08-17-19, 12:41 PM
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Mariposa Randonneur 1994
My go-to bike for anything over 100 km or so. Halifax - Quebec City in 4 ½ days 2004. Veteran of Dairyland Dare 2012. Rode my first century in several years last month on it and, while I'll never see the near side of 6 hours again, I finished in surprisingly non-knackered condition -- spent only an hour on the couch (rehydrating and re-carb-ing only, not catatonic....honest!) Must be something about that bike.... Still a 25 mm traditionalist, it was handy enough on the few km of gravel -- trail is by far the longest of any of our bikes.
Frame constructed by Tom Hinton, who is still hard at work with his tiny files and hummingbird wings making custom frames for the new Mariposa business.
A mix of Campag (front hub is C-Record, rear hub is Record 8-speed cassette), Shimano (crankset - 50-39) and Suntour (brakes & shifters--friction of course). The chromed steel rear rack is a Mike Barry in-house fabrication.
Just about perfection over distance.
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08-17-19, 07:10 PM
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This is my commute machine...
My Miyata 710
My Miyata 710
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08-17-19, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Pogliaghi
1937 Maino Supercampionissimo with Vittoria Margherita gears.
08-17-19, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by styggno1
17 posts and no Masi or Merckx!? I have to do something...
This is both a Monark and a Masi
And a Meral of course...
This is both a Monark and a Masi
And a Meral of course...
08-17-19, 08:22 PM
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Some of you guys have seen this bike in person,,but what "M" list would be complete without a MOSER with Super Record on it.
08-17-19, 08:27 PM
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1978 Motobecane Grand Touring. 
08-17-19, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 2cam16
Amazing how "M" just exploded after it was over!
McBain Record from Tasmania, Australia.
08-17-19, 10:39 PM
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I love the bikes in this thread so far, including the OP’s McBain. Here is my Motobecane Grand Record 650b.
08-17-19, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by P!N20
Yeah, and as the OP I’m embarrassed to say that I forgot my own M!
McBain Record from Tasmania, Australia.
McBain Record from Tasmania, Australia.
Nice bike though!
08-18-19, 05:47 AM
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08-23-19, 10:33 PM
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1992 Mongoose IBOC Pro in American Blue . with Loop Stays and Tolberone TopTube
08-26-19, 12:09 PM
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A Miele Latina in progress
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1983 Basso Gap... 2013 Colnago CX1...2015 Bianchi Intenso
1983 Basso Gap... 2013 Colnago CX1...2015 Bianchi Intenso
08-26-19, 01:12 PM
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1982 McLean
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