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CRC, Tesco, etc ?
French firm. They've made some good bike for top riders for years....
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Famouse for their glued and lugged aluminium frames back in the 70s. 979 was a classic bike (which is what Kelly's probably riding there).
Brand (name) now owned by CRC. New bikes look good. A lugged carbon frame would be the shizzle.
[/i]form Bikeradar:
"The Vitus name won’t mean much to cycling whippersnappers in 2011, but for those of us old enough to remember it, the original French company made some serious waves in their Seventies and Eighties heyday. They went from making steel tubes for French bike manufacturers to constructing bikes from narrow aluminium tubes under their own name. Irish hardman sprinter Sean Kelly even rode a bonded aluminium Vitus to victories in the Classics. Latterly they became early exponents of carbon ?bre – their distinctive frames bonding carbon tubes into aluminium lugs."[i]
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/road/product/dark-plasma-vr-11-44343
Some really nice bikes in their range; Brant's had a hand in speccing them (or done it all?). Their MTBs are bargainous.
Bit of news re: Sean Kelly getting involved;
[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/News.aspx?NewsID=1531&PartnerID=3601 ]http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/News.aspx?NewsID=1531&PartnerID=3601[/url]
Brant's 'Brand Manager' which sounds like it should involve bits of hot iron and cattle but probably doesn't.
edhornby from here has one of the new road frames and really rates it.
They look amazing value for money.