In the early 70s got a Mercier (when it was made in France) with Clements. It was purple and I called it (and wrote it on the TT) "he isostephanos Salaminia". Isostephanos means "violet-crowned", the great Greek poet Pindar's epithet for Athens. Salaminia was the Athenian official ship of state. (He just means "the."). I was in graduate school at Berkeley (in ancient Greek history, naturally), and nearly everyday would run that thing up Grizzley Peak and down Claremont Ave.--where I'd inevitably have a blow out. Loved that bike, and stupidly gave it to a friend when I got a job in Madison Wi., thinking I wouldn't be biking in the flatlands and when struggling to write lectures. Contented myself thereafter with hybrids and mountain bikes, mostly for transit, and missed a couple of decades where I could have really enjoyed road biking.