Paris Sport Value

[MrCannonCam]

Did another day of cleaning out Mike Fraysse's house of bike parts and picked up the last two bikes that were in there, the Paris Sport road bike and mixte bike below. Any ideas on values on these? Not much on ebay sold to go by...

Also about 25 sets of vintage Cinelli road and track bars incoming, some high end hubs, and about 120+ vintage tubular (and handful of clincher) rims that I need to inventory...



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[fiamme red]

$200 would be an optimistic price for the road bike, in my opinion (and the mixte is worth less). It's a basic frame, with hi-tensile steel tubing, on a level with basic Peugeots, Motobecanes, and Gitanes of the time. The parts are typical of French bikes of the period.

This looks like the brochure for the bike: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stronglight/sets/72157612511615276/.

More information about Paris Sport bikes:

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/USA/Paris_Sport.htm

https://midlifecycling.blogspot.com/2016/11/todays-ride-cosmic-connection-to-paris.html

Information about the Huret Svelto derailleur: http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Huret_Svelto_derailleur_1st_style.html.

It worked OK when new, but the parallelogram lacked the torsional rigidity of more three dimensional designs, and the pivots quickly loosened destroying any pretense at precision - not so much of a problem when your main competition is the 1962 Simplex Prestige - but a serious short coming when you are up against a 1967 Shimano Skylark...

For me the Huret Svelto is as much a part of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s as men walking on the moon, the three day week, Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats and Lord Anthony snorkel parkas with rabbit fur around the hood. Was it all a strange dream?