[CR]Alex Singer [was: Sheffield / Record]

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From: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Alex Singer [was: Sheffield / Record]
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:00:17 -0800


I'm new to the list so pardon if this is old news.

"On The Wheel" No.7 has an article, "A French Cycletouring Legend", about Alex Singer. It's written by Raymond Henry, the French cycling historian, and translated by Roland Sauvaget.

It says Alex was born Alexis Singer in 1905 in Budapest, emigrated to France in '23, and set up as a cycle maker in '38. In '44 he took on his wife's two grand-nephews Roland and Ernest Csuka as apprentices; Ernest builds the bikes still.

There are lots of other interesting bits, such as "At the 1948 Paris Cycle Show, Alex Singer sold Tullio Campagnolo two Nivex derailleurs and, strange to say, at the end of 1949 the Italian maker brought out his Gran Sport gear shifter working on the same parallelogram principle." (The author apparently believes the Nivex was wholly superior.)

"On The Wheel" is, sadly, out of print.

Mark Bulgier
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> Hi folks,
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> I had heard that Singer was British, but in fact I believe he was
> Hungarian. Not that it really matters. Mike Kone