French - Bicycles & Accessories info

[filmonger]

Please post your French bikes & bits info

1909

F Drouhin & Co

 

[filmonger]

Mestre & Blatge 1909....... Part 1 of 3

 

[filmonger]

Mestre & Blatge 1909....... Part 2

of 3

 

[filmonger]

Mestre & Blatge 1909....... Part 3 of 3

 

[carlitos60]

Great Info Buddy!!!
I Have Those on My 1900s BSA Racing Machine with Special C Fittings Frame!!!

 

[dnc1]

I think I'll really enjoy this thread.
Great idea @filmonger !
AVA.....

 

[bulldog1935]

 

[corbettclassics]

Here's one of my French bikes - I have owned many..
I bought this French bike about 25 yrs ago while visiting Paris, France. The owner of this bike store that I walked into didn't speak English and my French was not the greatest. But, when I said "Velodrome" he locked the front doors and took me out the back door of the shop. We walked down an alley where he opened these doors from an old garage that looked like it was about to collapse. In there were about 200 bikes and he pulled this one out for me. I bought it on the spot and brought it back on the plane with me. I've never found info on "Zinger" but did find something once on the seat tube name "Bergamini". He was some sort of bike racer if I remember. It has a Racycle chainring on it now but the original chainring is nearly identical, it's just smaller and I wanted to bike to look like Thaddeus Robl's bike of Germany. So, this is how the bike is represented now to look like the German champion on his Brennabor Stayer machine. If I put a regular front wheel back on the bike then it is a sloping top tube same as the old BSA racer. Sloping top tube bikes are actually quite rare today.

 

[dnc1]

Here's one of my French bikes - I have owned many..
I bought this French bike about 25 yrs ago while visiting Paris, France. The owner of this bike store that I walked into didn't speak English and my French was not the greatest. But, when I said "Velodrome" he locked the front doors and took me out the back door of the shop. We walked down an alley where he opened these doors from an old garage that looked like it was about to collapse. In there were about 200 bikes and he pulled this one out for me. I bought it on the spot and brought it back on the plane with me. I've never found info on "Zinger" but did find something once on the seat tube name "Bergamini". He was some sort of bike racer if I remember. It has a Racycle chainring on it now but the original chainring is nearly identical, it's just smaller and I wanted to bike to look like Thaddeus Robl's bike of Germany. So, this is how the bike is represented now to look like the German champion on his Brennabor Stayer machine. If I put a regular front wheel back on the bike then it is a sloping top tube same as the old BSA racer. Sloping top tube bikes are actually quite rare today.

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Lovely bicycle, love the motor pacing style.
The 'Bergamini' is a retailers transfer, they also sold sewing machines it seems!
There were at least two racers born around the TOC called Bergamini, Mario and Luciano, brothers of Italian origin.
It seems quite likely that they would have a retail establishment capitalizing on there racing success.
Here's a photo of Luciano.

 

[dnc1]

A.V.A. "ALPINA" stem and unknown bars on my French racer project.
French wood sprint rims in the background.