I should be very grateful for any information about a road bike I have recently bought which was originally supplied by Cycles Menet, located in Plogsteert in Belgium near the French border. I have contacted them but they have been unable to provide any information about it – “it's too old and we don't keep all the specification”.
It has a very large 25 inch frame made with Columbus tubing. The lugs are quite plain, although the ones on the fork tube have triangles cut out of the tops. The front forks are chromed with an integrated fork crown. I can’t find any identifying marks on the frame apart from M89 which is stamped on the underside of the bottom bracket.
It is fitted with Shimano (Exage 300EX) equipment – gears, chain set, hubs, brakes pedals – and has black Alesa rims with Ultech Flyer 700 x 23c tyres. It has 14 close ratio gears – 52/40 chain rings and 13,14,15,16,17,19,21 sprockets.
The bike is in excellent condition and has been little used. I estimate it to be from around 1990, judging by the Shimano 300EX equipment (perhaps the frame was made in 1989 given the M89 stamp?).
I suspect that Menet don’t make the frames themselves, in which case, who did? I’d be very interested if anyone could shed any more light.
It has a very large 25 inch frame made with Columbus tubing. The lugs are quite plain, although the ones on the fork tube have triangles cut out of the tops. The front forks are chromed with an integrated fork crown. I can’t find any identifying marks on the frame apart from M89 which is stamped on the underside of the bottom bracket.
It is fitted with Shimano (Exage 300EX) equipment – gears, chain set, hubs, brakes pedals – and has black Alesa rims with Ultech Flyer 700 x 23c tyres. It has 14 close ratio gears – 52/40 chain rings and 13,14,15,16,17,19,21 sprockets.
The bike is in excellent condition and has been little used. I estimate it to be from around 1990, judging by the Shimano 300EX equipment (perhaps the frame was made in 1989 given the M89 stamp?).
I suspect that Menet don’t make the frames themselves, in which case, who did? I’d be very interested if anyone could shed any more light.