Famous French marque and colour as depicted by this picture of the Mercier bike.

Cyrille Guimard riding the now pink framed bikes of Mercier in a 1971-72 cyclo cross event, after the transition from the violet colours during the previous road season.

Late 1970`s Serge Perin pictured here in the Miko Mercier kit,one of the cycling jerseys I bought whilst in France - made of acrilic material which was a popular material at the time and used substantially by the clothing manufacturers. Somewhat ironic that even then lots of bike riders bought their favourite team jerseys-as usual ten years ahead of football supporters?

2010 My pink frame - originally red white and blue colours this special edition Brevet frameset having been built into a bike for me by Thorns back in 2001 and although this is steel tubing it is very light.I thought it was abouit time for a bit of retro hence the SIS down tube levers courtsey of Shimano, but this has been married up with an upto date Shimano double ring C/Set 48/34 (with the axle now being attached to the right hand crank)which the original being a treble but the granny ring was rarely used.Most of the other equipment will be put back on the frame although the saddle was well passed its sell by date so that will be a new one. The frame sprayer also made new decals for the frame on the style as before with the addition of my website address on the top tube.

The finished article! Maybe the handlebar tape could have been white instead of the fact nowadays there is a wider availability pink being one of them!! So there must a large call for it? The A Head style handlebar stem is there simply bcause at the time I couldn`t source an old style longer alloy stem than had been in the frame so in the end compromised with creating the above.