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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.

Bicycle Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Mercier: five articles, a Timeline of 33 dated events from 1919 to 2021 and eight documents in the archive.
The most read history of Mercier on Ebykr.

Cycles Mercier of Saint-Étienne from 1919 to the 1980s: the Pélissier brothers, 50 Tours de France, 25 sub-brands and the Méca Dural bicycles of Indochina.
Grouped by format, the most read first.


Every sub-brand and OEM deal of Cycles Mercier, about 25 in all, from Fééric and Monspor to Duravia, Spoutnik and the Bobet, Leducq and Pélissier bicycles.

A timeline of Cycles Mercier from its 1919 founding in Saint-Étienne through Poulidor and the Méca Dural to the 1985 bankruptcy and the revivals.

The build sheet of a cream 1950s Mercier porteur: front and rear Mercier racks, a Perry coaster hub, a MAFAC Criterium front brake and Darnault fenders.

Cycles Mercier in pictures: the Saint-Étienne factory, Pélissier, Magne and Poulidor, catalogs and advertising, duralumin bicycles and a 1950s porteur.
Where Mercier is named outside its own pages: six articles and 40 archive documents from 12 other makers and five publications.
The articles that name Mercier most often first.
…carry one. The French makers · The French components that filled Peugeots, Gitanes, Mercier and countless others are a mixed bag, but two of them date beautifully. Maillard and its budget brand Normandy stamped…
…Camélia and New Express. This multi-brand strategy (honed by others like Cycles Mercier) allowed the Saint-Étienne manufacturer to saturate different segments of the riding public—from "grande" and…
…house-brand components, which included such respected marques as Peugeot, Hirondelle and Mercier. Yes, those Peugeot-branded parts on your trusty PX10 were probably made by Stronglight. Riding the Great Bike Boom…
…well as house-brand components for era manufacturers including Peugeot, Hirondelle and Mercier. 1985 · Industry Shift · A burgeoning Asian bicycle industry reached U.S. shores for the first time. The mid-1980s…
…material or other variants of age hardened aluminum to make frames and forks included: Mercier (and Aviac and other licensees) with the popular Meca Dural family of models, the Pelissier brothers and their…
…adoption by Saint-Étienne era manufacturers such as Verrot et Perrin, Haubtmann, Mercier and Aviac, the Pelissier brothers, Nicolas Barra, Pierre Caminade and Gnome et Rhône, to its late-century revival in…
Filed under other makers and publications whose words name Mercier; the biggest share first.

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