I know for sure that the current Paragon Machine Works that makes ti goods is not at all related to the earlier Paragon bike enterprise; the older one was a partnership between one man named Lars Zebroski, a racer of the early 60's and now deceased, and Hugh Enochs, who has the business which goes by the name Jevelot. The early Paragons were some of the first "good" bikes I ever saw, at Montrose Bike Shop in 1968 or so, they had two of them amidst a massive wall of Paramounts, Ideors, and Mondias; this store is still owned by the same family, the Hansings, who to those of us in the retail bike business are also known as Euro-Asia Imports. David Feldman
<ClassicRendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Geezer
> In a message dated 1/17/01 11:03:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> feldmanbike@home.com writes:
>
> << Jevelot? How old, and how is it built? The man who built those
> was a partner in one of the earliest "modern" (60's) US custom bike
> enterprises of my knowledge, Paragon which was a Northern Cal built bike.
>>
>
>
> So inform us David...
>
> I know Hugh Enochs still operates a small California business known as
> Jevelot. Many moons ago, they were the source of the funny but illegal
> "Guaranteed NOT built with Reynolds 531" decals;
>
> http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/
>
> Paragon is another California company that supplies machined steel and
> titanium parts for frame builders... Did they make custom frames once upon
a
> time?
>
> Dale Brown