Paris_Sport Bikes

Paris Sport & Victor Cycles were "house brands" name applied to many fine bicycles as sold and distributed by Park Cycle & Sports in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Vic Fraysse, with his son, Mike, imported frames and sold them marked as Paris Sport that were sourced, among others, from Bertin, Vitus (Bador) and Starnord, bikes made by Bernard Dangre's company DANGRE-STARNORD, of Valenciennes, northern France. This company also made bikes under the France-Sport and NORD-STAR brands. It also had the rights to the Eddy Merckx name for France. "..(Starnord was a) relatively small family-owned affairs but they managed to produce a full range of bikes from kid's' tourers and racers right through to serious amateur racing machines. ..... sponsored local semi-pro teams from time to time. An interesting fact about Dangre-Starnord is that the company never kept any stock; it did not have a warehouse. Every frame and cycle built was ordered by someone, and each customer, regardless of the model, price etc., of their bike and could choose their own spray finish from a range of about 20 colours." "Both Dangre..(was) on the route of the Paris - Roubaix classic, ... being just around the corner from the first 'ravitaillement' zone on the route." Norris Lockley

Some interesting specialty builders had brief stays in Ridgefield Park and made frames for the Paris Sport marque. Those included Francesco Cuevas (Spain), Pepe Limongi (France), and Dave Moulton (UK).