Re: [CR]vintage Paris bike shops?

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:54:05 -0700
To: "classicrendezvous-bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Scott Goldstein" <sgpnet@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]vintage Paris bike shops?


Having lived in France and having visited there recently, I can tell you most French riders are overwhelmingly into modern lightweight gear.... perhaps even more than Americans. They love Lycra.

I will soon be putting up a full web site of the work of Gilles Berthoud who still handcrafts 650 B bicycles in the Alps. I have one with racks, generators, metal fenders, a leather chain slap!!!, and more.

For the time being goto:

http://www.goldsteinproductions.com/Berthoud/JANTES.pdf

This is an Adobe acrobat file of all of the bike shops in France still selling 650 B gear.

The best in Paris is Rando and of course the Alex Singer shop in the burbs.

cheers

scott