[CR]Urago, Kalkhoff and Gazelle - Some Links

One brand of bike I had never heard of until this list started is Urago.

On page 156 of Jay Pridmore and Jim Hurd's book "The American BIcycle" there is a rider in The Tour of California on one. This was a 1971 stage race. The entire book is interesting, but it is also one of the few places that you can read about the founding of Schwinn's Paramount operation, and that blip in cycling history, The Tour of California.

Search of Urago come up with two real neat pages: http://www.classicrendezvous.com/France/Urago_main.htm

Page down: http://www.cyclart.com/restorefoto.html

Jobst visited the factory here in 1960 for a frame repair: http://www-math.science.unitn.it/Bike/Countries/Europe/Tour_Reports/Tour_ of_the_Alps/1960/

Guess according to these guys, Urago went into not as nice mass production bikes (search page: Urago): http://www.bicycletrader.com/archives/12articles.html#02 http://www.sheldonbrown.com/vrbn-o-z.html#urago

One bike that have actually seen a couple of nice ones from the 70s, is Kalkhoff. This is not one of those: http://ebay.com/<blah> And here they are today: http://www.kalkhoffbikes.de/tipps_links/gesundheit/rueckenmuskelatur.htm Not much in the road market, and not much information on Kalkhoff history anywhere.

Steven M. Johnson, Chesapeake, VA

P.S. Here is a Gazelle timeline http://www.rijwiel.net/gazelled.htm

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