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NYCyclist · 06-05-2007

Maybe I spend too much time in bookstores. Anyway, the latest issue of L'Optimum, a French mens magazine, has a guy astride a Silver 2007 Bonnie on the cover. If you check out the link, you will see a list of magazine covers. It's the one in the lower left: http://www.relay.fr/indexFlash.php?i...&articleType=2

I thumbed through the magazine more pics inside. Mostly fashion stuff though with the bike as accessory.

lunus · 06-06-2007

Got me thinking, anyone heard of a French motorcycle?

Dimitri · 06-06-2007

If you can call them real motorcycles:

peugeot motorcycles

lunus · 06-06-2007

That'll be a "Non" then

Odysseus · 06-06-2007

Voxan, unless they've gone out of business again. They produce some interesting looking bikes but had to be rescued a couple of years ago. But the last I heard they were still going, albeit with very low production rates.

JesusHoffa · 06-06-2007

I was concerned when I put carbon Loraine break pads on my bike because of how well the Brit and French get along. :> I am just glade they have not surrendered yet :>

KingBear · 06-07-2007

New bike for macho Frenchmen (their version of the Indian, I believe)...

06-07-2007

Hi, newbie here, will have to introduce myself !
As for french bikes, appart from a few specialised trial bikes and a lot of scooters (especially peugeot and MBK), we have, as has been pointed, the voxans :

and soon to be released (first in the US, that's where the money is for this kind of bike) the Wakan, featuring an S&S ENGINE (S&S involved because the second version will have a fuel injection system, and the french do the R&D on it) :

King Bear :-D That color is a bit too manly for me, maybe with little flowers and butterflies? :wink:

[ This message was edited by: greasertom on 2007-06-07 15:56 ]

HiVel · 06-07-2007

You know why the French have trees lining their roads?? Because the Germans like to march in the shade.
My family French Connection goes for 4 generations back to WWI with my grandfather fighting several battles (Belleau Wood was one)in the US Army Cavalry- 28th Division from Pa. My Dad (US NAVY) landed an LCVP on D-DAY , 1944(June 6 was D-Day plus 63 years!) on Utah Beach (that is an incredible story) in the first wave and I served in Chinon , France as an Army med Tech in a Nato Hospital during 1963-64. My first son was born in Chinon Army Hospital and thusly was able to have French citizenship if he wanted- he did not , he is an American citizen.
The French are very hi-tech but dont like to fight. They have a new government that is dealing with illegal aliens whereas we have a bunch of vote sucking cowards who only work to get re-elected and enrichen thenmselves at the taxpayes expense. Viva La France!

HiVel · 06-07-2007

Oops-I got off track-the French built sort of a BMW copy during the 60's that was really fast for its day and was good looking too. I cannot remember the name but I used to go look at them in the dealers window in Chinon in 1964 and dream---they were cool.