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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Let's roll together!
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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provoking imagery and opinion. Let's roll together!
[…] excellent article, on the equally excellent EBykr.com, about Alex Singer […]
Regarding the small advertisement from Oct. 2nd, 1946, the French text says: “A Chanteloup les cycles et tandems “Alex Singer” vainqueur du Challenge de la meilleure equipe avec BILLIET ROUTTERS CSUKAA”
Incl. typo correction it should read: ” In Chanteloup the bicycles and tandems “Alex Singer” winner of the Challenge of the best team with (Roger) BILLET (Jo) ROUTENS (Ernest) CSUKA
Singer had two later framebuilder as pilots in his team: Routens started a few months later together with Roger Hugonnier his own business in Lyon. Csuka was only 17 years old in 1945.
Thanks for the added perspective, Heiko. Much appreciated.
I am going to be in Paris the last week of June 08. Is there any way I can rent a Herse or Singer there?
[…] Alex Singer and René Herse came to distinguish themselves as the great masters of this craft of making finished bicycles tailored not only to the buyer's physique, but his or her habits. But the prices they charged were accordingly high. Yet the mid-century middle class, especially in France, also had a love for cyclotouring, and the expectation of quality – along with the typically French penchant for a bargain. Louis Moire eyed this rather broad niche and positioned himself to address it, thus bringing about Cycles Goëland, originally "La Marque du Just Milieu," which one could very loosely translate as "the Affordable Alternative." (More literally, "not too cheap, not too dear.") […]
And riding an Alex singer is a real pleasure. It’s such a beautiful bike that riding become easy. I mean that my Singer is so beautiful that it help me when the road is too hard, and distance too long. And I can pass long time just to look at my bike, so riding is never boring, even long rides. I can swear now, even if I am only 30 years old, that I won’t never change my Singer for any other bike.
[…] Unlike some other French cyclo-artisans of his era – Singer, Herse, Goëland, et al – Caminade is relatively unknown today; but he must have been a familiar name to cyclists during his peak years, even if they had never seen one of his distinctive machines, for M. Caminade appears to have been a sharp and relentless marketer. Begin with the name of his bicycle line: most Caminade velos were sold under the "Caminargent" moniker, a clever combination of words with multiple meanings. There was also his practice of embedding the company logo into the heads of the frame's fasteners and of course there were the ads, which apparently were everywhere. […]
[…] Indeed, most bicycle manufacturing companies are named after their founder or first builder: Alex Singer, René Herse, Bridgestone (after Mr. Ishibashi, "Stone Bridge" in Japanese), Schwinn, and of course the modern boutique builders such as Gilles Berthoud, Richard Sachs, and others. Some, like Waterford, follow the British tradition of naming one's company after the town in which it was founded. Others have regrettable names that seem derived from a consensus of pinstripes in boardrooms, such as Specialized or Giant, though they may make fine products. […]
wonder if there is any relation to ANDY SINGER
the cartoonist who makes wonderful statements of modern culture and its clash with the bicycle