Great bike Lou,
Almost identical to the one I have, mines darker blue.
I've been taking mine down for an overhaul, looking high and low for a serial #. Can't find a thing, any suggestions? Do you have a date on yours? Lugs, details, cable guides, stay treatments (correction, mine has fender eyes on the stay ends) are all the same on mine. I bought mine new but it sat in a shop somewhere for years before it came to me.
Soon as I get it cleaned up I'll send along some pics to the Wool Jersey Cuevas Page. Soon as I know when it was made I'll start hunting a more correct parts ensemble...........
Thanks,
On Jun 28, 2005, at 4:32 AM, loudeeter@aol.com wrote:
> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/
> 4523&.src=ph&.tok=ph1v0NDBnHyddam1
>
> Jonathan Greene hosted (and took) these pictures of the Cuevas that
> Mark Poore bought at the Cirque Charity auction and that I ended up
> with after a bit of wheeling and dealing with Mark. These are
> pictures "before" refinishing. The toptube has a dent and many paint
> chips. Fernando Cuevas provided the correct decals. For those of you
> not familiar with Francisco Cuevas, he started building in Spain as a
> teenager in the 1920s!! The Spanish Civil War caused him to flea
> Spain, He spent time in France and Argentina before moving to the New
> York City area in the early 1970s where he built for Paris Sport along
> with G. Limongi and Ramon Orero. I believe he retired from building
> in the late 1980s--imagine over 60 years of experience! Sadly,
> Francisco passed away earlier this year in his beloved Barcelona,
> Spain. His son and grandson continue the Cuevas framebuilding and
> team sponsorship in the New York City area. Some frame features to
> note: See the X inside the bottom of the fork steerer tube. I
> particularly like the seat cluster and rear dropout treatment. Thanks
> Jonathan for the pictures. Lou Deeter, Orlando FL
>
Gene Powell
Rad Finishes
Portland, OR