The Vigorelli on the CR site was a bike I purchased on eBay from a seller in New Jersey.He was selling the frames for a former employee of Paris-Sport.He had several Paris-Sports and this one Vigorelli.The frames were NOS.The Vigorelli was a nicely made frame save the miters in the bottom bracket.I was afraid that the bb was going to need retapped because of the tubing extending beyond the bb shell.I resold the frame before ever having to deal with the situation.
Nick Zatezalo Atlanta,Ga
The Argentinean would have been Ramon Orero, a great builder of bikes under his own name. Looking at the the pictures on the CR website the chainstays have a shape that says Orero to me. Who built what at Paris Sport probably changed by the month so its all a guess. I could probably tell an Orero if I held it in my hand. He had a very distinctive line on all the finishing touches- quite refined.
My wife's Orero is very fine indeed and I have seen some even better examples.
> Somehow I started to thinking about my bike and the place I bought it in
> 1982. It's a Vigorelli by Paris-Sport and I've never seen another like
> it--until I went to your website and there was the exact bike, same
color
> and decals, although mine doesn't look like that anymore. However it is
> still equipped with almost the same mix of Campy Nuevo Record/Shimano
Durra
> Ace that I had in those days.
>
> I think I met the builder and I thought he was Argentinean because I was
> wearing an Argentina World Cup shirt and he loved it. Argentina had
> recently won the World Cup. He might have also just been a guy in the
> workshop. I new that Cuevas worked there but I didn't think my bike was
> their top model so I didn't think that he made it. I saw bikes that had
> triangular cut-outs where the frame tubes met the dropouts and someone
told
> me they were by Cuevas. Vic sold me the bike and I think I picked mine
out
> before it was painted.
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